2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference
December 22, 2008 by admin · 2 Comments
With the economy at the top of the national agenda, the 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference will be the leading forum for shaping the national debate about the economic potential of investments in clean energy and green technologies.
Join us February 4 – 6, 2009, in Washington, D.C. to connect with more than 2,000 government leaders and decision-makers, as well as business, industry, labor and environmental organizations for three days of educational programs, speakers and networking opportunities. Help forge the agenda for the new green economy.
Conference-goers also have the opportunity to head to Capitol Hill February 4 for Green Jobs Advocacy Day to educate lawmakers about the enormous potential of the green economy. On February 5, companies, academic programs, non-profits and government agencies can highlight the latest innovations in the green economy at the Green Jobs Expo.
In The News 2008
December 22, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Apollo Alliance is busy! Read about us in the mainstream media, blogs and other websites.
Los Angeles Times
January 4, 2009
Why Obama’s Green Jobs Plan Might Work
Boyslife.org (Boy Scout’s of America)
December 29, 2008
Hot Spot: Jerome Ringo
BlipTV
December 24, 2008
Jerome Ringo Keynotes Renewable Energy Day
Bright Green Blog (Christian Science Monitor)
December 22, 2008
Obama’s Labor Pick A Green-Jobs Advocate
This Home Is Green blog
December 22, 2008
Blowing Gusts Of Wind, MI And NJ Tackle Unemployment, Hawaii Makes The Switch
Scientific America
December 2008
Green-Collar Jobs–The Future Of The Global Workplace
Open Media Boston
December 19, 2008
Green Justice Coalition Has A Credible Strategy To Help The Environment While Helping The Economy
The Denver Post
December 18, 2008
Building A Better, Greener Economy
Jesse Fox blog
December 17, 2008
Green New Deal 2009
Mother Earth News blog
December 16, 2008
Tell Obama’s Energy Czar To Support Renewable Energy
The Huffington Post
December 15, 2008
Greening Workers’ Wallets
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
December 15, 2008
Experts Predict Push For Biofuels
Gaia Community blog
December 15, 2008
Obama’s New Energy Chief
Peter B. Collins Show
December 12, 2008
Phil Angelides Lays Out The Apollo Economic Recovery Act
Biofuels Digest
December 12, 2008
Apollo Alliance Proposes New Apollo Program For Green Energy, Jobs, Technology
ClimateArk.org blog
December 11, 2008
Green-Collar Jobs–The Future Of The Global Workplace
Top 5 Stocks blog
December 9, 2008
What a “Green Recovery” Stimulus Means For You
BPL Today
December 9, 2008
Apollo Alliance Lists ‘Smart Grid’ Among Top Policy Priorities
Greenbiz.com
December 9, 2008
U.S. Needs $500 Billion Clean Tech Investment, 5 Million Green Jobs
Dirt Diggers Digest
December 9, 2008
Chicago Sit-In And The Future Of Green Jobs
The New Era blog
December 9, 2008
Apollo Alliance: The Renewable Energy Industry
SmartPower.org blog
December 8, 2008
Grass Roots Support For Green Jobs
Sustainable Business Design blog
December 8, 2008
The 2008 Forecast Earth Hot List
The Boston Globe
December 7, 2008
Coalition Seeking “Green New Deal”
Common Cause blog
December 7, 2008
Apollo Alliance: Big Oil and Senator Inhofe Blocking Clean Energy
The Sacramento Bee
November 30, 2008
Sacramento Could Get Boost From Green Economy
TreeHugger.com
November 29, 2008
New Deal 2009? Three Plans to Rescue the Economy and the Earth with Public Transportation
Invest Green blog
November 28, 2008
Projects Green: Apollo Alliance Leads The Way
CT Environmental Headlines blog
November 28, 2008
Obama Is Ready To Move On Clean Energy
Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News blog
November 26, 2008
Economic Stimulus: The Case for “Green” Infrastructure, Energy Security and “Green” Jobs
The Sacramento Bee
November 20, 2008
My View: New Strategy To Rally Nation Under Green Flag
The New York Times - Dot Earth blog
November 19, 2008
10 Earthly Ideas On A Budget
The Christian Science Monitor
November 19, 2008
World Wants Green Action, Despite Costs
Reprinted in The Taiwan News
The Detroit News
November 18, 2008
Apollo Alliance Doesn’t Want Detroit To Die
WritingInTheWild blog
November 17, 2008
Apollo Alliance
Workday Minnesota
November 16, 2008
Long-term Measures Need To Restore Economy
California Green Solutions Newsletter
November 2008
Clean Energy Is Not A Mirage
CityStates blog
November 14, 2008
Trouble Ahead for Alternative Energy?
The Huffington Post
November 14, 2008
Quit Bailing. Start Building.
Now (PBS)
November 14, 2008
The Future of Green Jobs
Gristmill Blog
November 13, 2008
Misinformed: ‘Oh my god, they admitted it’
The Writing Corner blog
November 13, 2008
Apollo Alliance On Obama And Energy
Oakland Business Review (Michigan)
November 13, 2008
Michigan, Auto Industry Called To Arms In Green Movement
Morning Edition (NPR)
November 12, 2008
Certain Green Industries Have Job Openings
The Christian Science Monitor
November 12, 2008
A Closer Look At Obama’s Energy Plan
Detroit Free Press
November 10, 2008
Boost Economy With Clean Energy Industry
Gristmill Blog
November 5, 2008
Enviro Reax
Environmental News Service
November 5, 2008
High Environmental Hopes Riding on Obama’s Green Promises
Renewable Energy World
November 5, 2008
Financing Our Clean Energy Future
Green Pepper blog
November 5, 2008
The Change We Really Do Need
The Nation
November 4, 2008
Transformational Presidency
reprinted on The Huffington Post
Blast Magazine
November 1, 2008
Welcome To Green Collar America
North Star Writer’s Group
October 31, 2008
Green Economy Rises Out of Financial Sector Ashes
Reuters
October 30, 2008
Obama To Go ‘Green’, But Push Could Be Costly
The Nation
October 30, 2008
The Promise of Green Jobs
The Nation
October 29, 2008
Working Together for a Green New Deal
Sightline Daily(Northwest)
October 29, 2008
Green-Collar Stimulus 4
We Campaign Blog
October 29, 2008
Blowing Gusts Of Wind
Times Union (Albany)
October 26, 2008
A Green View Can Help Economy, Environment
Smart Power Blog
October 26, 2008
Jobs, Baby, Jobs
TC Palm (Florida)
October 26, 2008
Going Green Is A Long-Term Issue
Daily Sightline Blog
October 24, 2008
Jobs, Baby, Jobs!
BetterBlog
October 24, 2008
SVN Conference Report: The New Apollo Program
The Huffington Post
October 24, 2008
The Seventy Percent Solution
The Harvard Crimson
October 23, 2008
Captain Planet Economics
Alternet
October 23, 2008
Van Jones: How We Can Lead Our Country Out Of Crisis
The Huffington Post
October 23, 2008
What Is A Green-Collar Job
The Boston Globe
October 21, 2008
Why Green Jobs Are Our Future
The Oakland Tribune
October 20, 2008
Officials Celebrate Going Green In Oakland
The Providence Journal
October 20, 2008
Van Jones: Bioneers By The Bay And The Green Economy
MSN
October 17, 2008
Can He Really Create 5 Million Jobs?
Matter Network
October 17, 2008
Experts Say Renewable Energy Key to Economic Recovery
Midwest News: NWF blog
October 17, 2008
New Green Jobs Program To Benefit Michigan
Grist
October 16, 2008
Al’s Well That Ends Well
San Francisco Bike Blog
October 16, 2008
‘Build for America’ Plan Launched, San Francisco Edition
Detroit Free Press
October 16, 2008
Green-Collar Jobs Program Pushed, Aiming For 5 million Positions
Reprinted at ECO-BUSINESSWIRE.COM.
Policy Innovations
October 15, 2008
Green Jobs Transition Must Accelerate
Beacon Broadside
October 15, 2008
A Green Bailout
The Nature Conservancy
October 14, 2008
Jerome Ringo Plenary Address
Keyboard Culture Blog
October 10, 2008
Success of Green Jobs Now Nationwide Day of Action Points to Clean Energy Future
The Peter B. Collins Show
October 10, 2008
Phil Angelides on The New Apollo Program
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation blog
October 10, 2008
Newark’s Green Future Summit
People’s Weekly World
October 9, 2008
Apollo Alliance: Green-Collar Jobs Are The Future
WOSU Radio (Columbus, OH)
October 8, 2008
Gov. Strickland Backs Nationwide Green-Collar Job Initiative
This report was rebroadcast on WVXU (Cincinnati, OH.)
The Columbus Dispatch
October 8, 2008
Apollo Project Aims For Energy
PolitickerOH
October 8, 2008
Strickland Helps Launch The New Apollo Program
Capitol Blog: Ohio Politics With Marc Kovac
October 8, 2008
Strickland and The New Apollo Program
California Progress Report
October 8, 2008
The New Apollo Program Takes New Path
KQED’s Forum with Michael Krasny
October 7, 2008
Barbara Boxer On The New Apollo Program
The HuffingtonPost.com
October 7, 2008
Now For A Green Bailout: Twice The Bang, Half The Bucks
KBOO,The Old Mole Variety Hour
October 6, 2008
Green-Collar Jobs
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 5, 2008
The New Green Frontier
CBS5.com
October 5, 2008
The New Apollo Program To Create Green-Collar Jobs
KPIX-TV (San Francisco)
October 4, 2008
Senator Boxer Promotes Bay Area Eco-Friendly Business
KCBS All News 740 AM
October 4, 2008
Green Program To Create Jobs
DailyReview.com (Bay Area News Group)
October 4, 2008
Investment In Green-Collar Jobs Urged
Miami Herald
October 3, 2008
Green Jobs A Draw At Miami-Dade College Event
Forbes.com
October 1, 2008
Labor’s Green Energy Elevator Pitch
The Oakland Tribune
October 1, 2008
Green Jobs Training Program Set To Begin
GreenMuze.com eco-geek blog
October 1, 2008
Why Don’t We Bailout The Planet?
Washington Post Writers Group
September 28, 2008
Beyond Bailout: Reinventing in U.S.
Denver Post
Seattle Times
California Green Solutions
September 27, 2008
The New Apollo Program Solution For Clean Energy Jobs
TimesUnion.com The Green Blog (Albany, NY)
September 25, 2008
I’m Ready For My Green Job
The Star Press (central Indiana)
September 23, 2008
Green Movement’s Primary Color Is White
onearth.org (Natural Resources Defense Council Blog)
September 23, 2008
Green Is Every Color
Daily Newarker blog
September 23, 2008
Peak Oil And Newark‚s Green Revolution
The Nation
September 22, 2008
Give Main Street A Fair Shake
EcoFriendlyMagazine.com
September 21, 2008
Will The Greening Of Newark Rejuvenate The Local Economy?
Carbon Tax Center Blog
September 21, 2008
Bloomberg, Economists, Greens Tell Ways & Means: Price Carbon Upstream, Distribute Revenues to Consumers
Lexington Herald-Leader
September 21, 2008
Fueling Kentucky’s Future
Green Technology Magazine
September 2008
Lighting The Way For New Technology
Social Enterprise Reporter
September 20, 2008
Newark’s Green Future Summit Concludes 9/15
The Star Press (central Indiana)
September 19, 2008
Living Lightly Fair Makes It Easy To Be Green
Green Career Central Blog
September 17, 2008
The New Apollo Program: An Economic Investment Strategy
NYC Climate Coalition
Act NOW!
September 17, 2008
Support Renewable Energy in the US with the Apollo Alliance!
Common Tragedies: Thoughts on Environmental Economics Blog
September 17, 2008
Ways and Means Hearing on Policy Options to Prevent Climate Change
Center For American Progress
September 17, 2008
Black Ministers Rally Action on Climate Change
Absolute Michigan
September 17, 2008
Five Million New Jobs
Green Career Central Blog
September 17, 2008
The New Apollo Program: An Economic Investment Strategy
CSRwire
September 16, 2008
In Wake Of Economic Meltdown, Congress Considers Green Recovery
Times Union (Albany, NY)
September 16, 2008
Green Jobs Blowin’ In The Wind
Greenwire
September 16, 2008
GREEN CITIES: Newark Relying on Energy Initiatives to Bring Jobs, Revise Image
Green Jersey
September 15, 2008
Newark’s Eco-Future
Stark Raving Viking Blog
September 14, 2008
The Apollo Alliance
The Capital Times
September 14, 2008
Rally Supports Green Jobs To Boost Economy
Newark Star Ledger
September 14, 2008
Could Newark Flower As Eco-City?
The Daily Newarker
September 14, 2008
Newark’s Green Dream
Progressive States Network YouTube Channel
September 13, 2008
Jerome Ringo (1) - Building a Progressive Majority In The State1
NJBIZ.com
September 12, 2008
Newark Holds Green Future Summit
NJ.com
September 12, 2008
Newark Hosts ‘Green Future’ Forum
Kauai Garden Island News
September 9, 2008
Political Will Problem
The New York Times
September 2, 2008
A Balancing Act On Emission
Red, Green, and Blue
September 1, 2008
Reconfiguring Labor Day
Living on Earth
August 30, 2008
Green-Collar Jobs Hot Topics
Rocky Mountain News
August 29, 2008
Rocky Truth Squad
Heritage Foundation
August 28, 2008
What Will Central Planners Choose On Energy?
Denver Post
August 28, 2008
Law Firms Press Flesh
Denver Post
August 27, 2008
Goodies To Parties
InsideSocal.com
August 25, 2008
FromThe DNC
August 27, 2008
Democrats Drill McCain
Left In Alabama.com
August 27, 2008
GreenTech & Alternative Energy
Physics Today
August 27, 2008
Convention Day Two
The American Prospect
August 26, 2008
Bracken Hendricks: Clean Energy Evangelist
Santa Barbara Press Democrat
August 26, 2008
Pelosi Addresses California Delegation At Convention
Alternet.org
August 23, 2008
What Will The Green Economy Look Like?
TheMediaConsortium.com
August 21, 2008
What Will The Green Economy Look Like
Public Affairs
August 17, 2008
Coalitions Plan Day of Action on the Environment
The HuffingtonPost.com
August 14, 2008
For Conservatives, “All of the Above” Means “No Clean Energy”
The Nation
August 13, 2008
Progressives In The Obama Moment
The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)
August 12, 2008
N.Y. Apollo Participates In Clean Energy Bus Tour
Post Independent (Glennwood Springs, CO)
August 11, 2008
Renewable Energy Event In Aspen
The California Aggie
August 11, 2008
California Universities Gather To Discuss Sustainability
OfficePolitics.com
August 10, 2008
Wanted: Green-Collar Workers
The National (United Arab Emirates)
August 9, 2008
U.S. Seeks Rehab For Addiction To Foreign Oil
NewEnergyNews
August 8, 2008
Apollo On New Energy
Middleboro Review
August 8, 2008
Paris And New Energy
warontheright blog
August 7, 2008
Email To Parker Griffith On The Climate Crisis
GreenTidings blog
August 6, 2008
Environmental Happenings
orangejuice blog
August 6, 2008
How Can You Go Wrong With The Man Who Gave You The Seatbelt?
republican blogspot blog
August 5, 2008
Why The Future Doesn’t Look Good For Republicans
midskina-ano blog
August 5, 2008
San Luis Obispo
Daily Kos
August 4, 2008
Delay That Legislation, Senators. Wait ‘Til ‘09
SanLuisObispo.com
August 4, 2008
Delay That Legislation, Senators. Wait ‘Til ‘09
SanLuisObispo.com
August 4, 2008
Delay That Legislation, Senators. Wait ‘Til ‘09
LeeCantrellSpeaks blog
August 3, 2008
Will New Oil Drilling Save Us?
Christian Science Monitor
August 1, 2008
High Gas Prices Boost Bus Travel
People’s World Weeklyl
July 29, 2008
Offshore Drilling Won’t Lower Gas Prices
PWW.org
July 28, 2008
Green Electricity By 2018?
People’s World Weekly
July 28, 2008
Green Electricity By 2018?
SpikeSpisak’s aol journal
July 28, 2008
Oakland Builds Green Jobs
Peter Drier’s blog
July 28, 2008
Abolish HUD?
Kitsap Sun
July 25, 2008
Gore Might Not Be Right To Lead The Charge For Clean Energy?
ChicagoRenewable
Energy.com
July 25, 2008
Invest, Don’t Drill
Local Energy News
July 23, 2008
Good Energy Policy Begins With Good Questions
greenthinking blog
July 23, 2008
Tell Congress to Invest, Not Drill
chimera-gaia.blogspot.com blog
July 21, 2008
Find Appropriate Standards For Energy
The Guardian (UK)
July 18, 2008
Money Talks On Climate Change
chezremi blog
July 18, 2008
Clean Vision
taylormarsh.com
July 15, 2008
To Drill Offshore or Not to Drill?
California Conversations
Summer 2008
Living and Investing Green
CourierPostOnline.com
July 14, 2008
Check Growth Sector For Jobs In Demand
HuffingtonPost.com
July 14, 2008
What Bush Didn’t Promise
Bluestem Prarie blog
July 13, 2008
Old News About Oil Drilling Job Numbers
Shreveport Times
July 12, 2008
Today’s Growth Industries Have Plenty Of Jobs
Real America blog
July 12, 2008
Apollo Alliance Offers
Good News
shinygreenbutton blog
July 10, 2008
Who the HE double toothpicks is Jerome Ringo?
Washington State’s Lieutenant Governor’s Website
July 10, 2008
Creating Green-Collar Jobs in Washington State
stumpysfindings blog
July 10, 2008
A capsule quote: nod to Apollo
americangreen blog
July 9, 2008
GreenCollar Social Network
Circle of Blue – circleofblue.org
July 9, 2008
U.S. Faces Era of Water Scarcity
The Costco Connection
July 2008
The Green in the Machine
GreenSkeptic blog
July 4, 2008
Reblogging: A Call for “Interdependence Day” from 2005
cometskateboards.com
July 4, 2008
Hillary Clinton visits
with e2e and Comet
californiagreensolutions
.com
July 3, 2008
Happy Sustainability Day
The Huffingpost.com
July 1, 2008
Obama’s New Generation of Organizers
Polemic A Day blog
June 27, 2008
What’s Our Oil Doing Under Their Sand
The HuffingtonPost.com
June 27, 2008
Obama & Telecom
Immunity
The News-Gazette
June 26, 2008
Benefits Of ‘Green’
Industry
The Aspen Daily News
June 26, 2008
Aspen Energy Day
The Washington Times
June 25, 2008
Obama Stands Firm;
McCain Rides Wave For Energy Solutions
BeyondChron.org
June 26, 2008
Green-Collar Jobs: Industrial Policy and a Society with a Future
June 24, 2008
Green-Collar Jobs Pledge
Local leaders are driving the country toward a green future.
BlueNC.com
June 24, 2008
How To End The Recession: Labor and Renewable Energy
mongabay.com
June 23, 2008
Van Jones Interview: Towards a Multicolored Green Movement
theday.com (Connecticut)
June 22, 2008
McCain Drilling Change Should Concern Voters
East Bay Business Times
June 20, 2008
18 Graduate From RTCC Green Jobs Program in Oakland
jimmathers.com
June 19, 2008
Green Collar Jobs
CNNmoney.com
June 18, 2008
Shooting the Moon on Renewables
U.S. Energy Association
June 13, 2008
Energy Efficiency Resonates with Presidential Candidates
Celsias
June 13, 2008
Green Job Market Vibrant
EarthFirst.com
June 13, 2008
Top 25 Hottest Guys in Green
RenewableEnerg
World.com
June 11, 2008
Our Newest “Greatest Generation” Opportunity
The New Republic
June 10, 2008
Why Greens Are Glad The Climate Bill Tanked
Book Calendar blog
June 7, 2008
Clean Technology
redOrbit – Science, Space, Technology, Health News and Information
June 6, 2008
Home Grown Energy Is Not Just a Pipe Dream
Kauai World
June 5, 2008
Kaua’i Council Considering Energy Investment
AFSCME Info Center
June 5, 2008
Labor and Global Warming Legislation
BuffaloRising.com
June 5, 2008
Job Opportunities For The Green Economy
Vail Trail Weekly
June 4, 2008
Vail Resorts’ 10% ‘Energy Layoff’
Wisconsin Public Radio’s Here On Earth
June 3, 2008
Green Collar Jobs
KLFY-TV (Lafayette, LA)
June 1, 2008
Local (Jerome Ringo) Advocates for Going Green
Public Works Solutions Blog
May 30, 2008
Green Energy Part of the Solution to Cut Green House Gases
Green Collar Manufacturing Blog
May 29, 2008
Promise for Urban and Rural Revitalization
The Louisville Eccentric Observer
May 28, 2008
The Force of New Green
msnbc.com
May 26, 2008
Green Industries Offer Job Growth Opportunities
kauaiworld.com
May 25, 2008
Hawaii Apollo: Is Hydroelectricity A Potential Power Source
The Toledo Times
May 25, 2008
Apollo’s Fire: Solutions To The Energy Crisis
CNNMoney.com
May 22, 2008
First Wind Energy Company IPO Planned In The U.S.
Workforce Development blog
May 22, 2008
Apollo Alliance: A Resource For Jobs In The Energy Sector
Pacific News Service
May 19, 2008
Ringo Keynotes At Hawaii Build & Buy Green Conference
San Jose Mercury News
May 19, 2008
Lieberman: Climate Security Act Apollo Project For Energy Independence
Foreign Policy in Focus
May 16, 2008
Global Green Jobs
Arkansas Business Journal
May 14, 2008
Jerome Ringo: Featured Speaker At AK USGBC
World Watch Institute
May 14, 2008
Green Jobs Find International Support
Las Cruces Sun-News
May 14, 2008
Mayors, Local Leaders Want To Take Lead On Climate Change
Bloomberg.com
May 13, 2008
Obama, Clinton `Green’ Workforce Pledges May Fall Short on Jobs
greenbiz.com
May 11, 2008
Wanted: Green MBAs
Sedona.biz
May 10, 2008
Green-Collar Jobs
KSFY, South Dakota
May 8, 2008
Clinton in South Dakota: Apollo Program for American Renewable Energy
Oakland Tribune
May 7, 2008
Phil Angelides Doing What He Believes
Ithaca Times
May 7, 2008
The Green Team: Fast Growing Green-Collar Jobs
The American Prospect
May 2008
The Green Gap: Green Collar Jobs For Inner City Residents
Washingtonian Magazine
April 2008
Apollo’s Jerome Ringo honored by Washington’s premier regional magazine
30 People Changing the Environment in Washington
The American Prospect
May 2008
The Green Gap: Green Collar Jobs For Inner City Residents
The New Republic
04/30/08
Green-Collar Blues
Times Herald-Record (lower Hudson Valley & Catskills, NY)
04/27/08
Sustainable Living: Grads Should Consider Green-Collar Job
San Jose Mercury News
April 27, 2008
Prepare Kids for Green Collar Jobs
Connecticut Post
April 25, 2008
Green Jobs Can’t be Outsourced
Fast Company
April 18, 2008
“I’m Bad, I’m Slick”
Campus Progress
April 17, 2008
Sustainable Punk
Celsias Radio
April 16, 2008
Phil Angelides on Green-Collar Jobs
Oakland Tribune
April 8, 2008
Oakland-Based Movement At Forefront of A Green Campaign
Washingtonian Magazine
April 2008
Apollo’s Jerome Ringo honored by Washington’s premier regional magazine
Utne Reader
April 2008
Heartland: A Leader is Born
Inside Counsel
April 2008
Strange Bedfellows
New York Times
March 26, 2008
Millions of Jobs of a Different Color
Black Enterprise
February 21, 2008
Inspiring the Masses
Business Week
February 11, 2008
America’s Green Policy Vacuum
The Columbian
January 24, 2008
State’s top industries warm to Gregoire’s climate change legislation
How About a Real Democratic Stimulus?
Strange Bedfellows - How business and labor are learning to love environmentalism
Welcome to Green-Collar America
Greening of US is a chance to cash in
Clinton sees global warming fight as a way to create jobs, opportunity
New Book Claims Clean Energy Industries Create New Jobs
Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act of 2008: Model Programs
December 10, 2008 by Kate Gordon · 1 Comment
The numbers below provide background information for the Apollo Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act of 2008, developed by Senator Debbie Stabenow’s office in consultation with the Apollo Alliance, along with Green For All, the Corps Network, the Center for American Progress, and others.
Stabenow Outlines Clean Energy Path to 1 Million New Jobs
December 10, 2008 by admin · 3 Comments
WASHINGTON – As the nation’s concern over job losses and a faltering economy reached new depths this week, the Apollo Alliance and a group of prominent public interest organizations joined today in applauding Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow’s introduction of a landmark clean energy economic recovery bill to rebuild the American manufacturing sector.
Apollo Weekly Update, 12/8/08: Economic Recovery and Clean Energy Stimulus
December 6, 2008 by Keith Schneider · Leave a Comment
This week, as the clean energy, good jobs economy again attained prominence at the top levels of national policy making, the Apollo Alliance introduced the Apollo Economic Recovery Act. Our one-year, $50 billion proposal is a comprehensive quick start, clean energy economic recovery strategy to immediately create or retain 650,000 direct green-collar jobs and an additional 1.3 million indirect jobs in communities across the country. Look for the full proposal on our Web site here.
This week we also applauded the introduction of the Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act of 2008, sponsored by Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow and co-sponsored by Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown. (http://apolloalliance.org/news/clean-energy/stabenow-outlines-clean-energy-path-to-1-million-new-jobs/).
And we welcomed the Boston Green Justice Coalition as the newest member of the Apollo Alliance.
The Apollo Economic Recovery Act and the Green Jobs and Infrastructure Act respond directly to President-elect Barack Obama’s call this month for a “big stimulus package” in January to “jolt” the economy and “lay the groundwork for long- term, sustained economic growth.”
As you know the Apollo Alliance is all about that. In September we introduced The New Apollo Program, which proposed to spend $50 billion annually over ten years to create 5 million good-paying jobs while helping to solve the climate crisis, the energy crisis, and the economic crisis. Our economic development strategy calls for a sweeping set of actions. They include big commitments to energy efficiency, transit and electrical grid expansion and modernization, road and bridge repair, dramatic increases in the use of renewable energy, and a major investment to reinvigorate manufacturing for clean energy equipment and advanced fuel-efficient vehicles.
House and Senate leaders frame the steps needed to scale up the clean energy economy in terms that are consistent with what Apollo has proposed and at the same magnitude of investment. The president-elect and members of his transition team indicate they are prepared to introduce and pass an economic recovery plan likely to cost $400 billion to $700 billion over two years. And they say that much of the spending will focus on accelerating the transition to cleaner sources of energy as well as more efficient energy use in buildings, homes, vehicles, industry, and communities. 
The Apollo Alliance has been busy since the election in making this case in Congress and with the incoming administration. For example, investing in any or all of the more than 30 energy-efficient, cost-effective light and heavy rail transit projects that are ready to go around the country would put thousands to work immediately in high wage electrical, steel, concrete, carpenter, and other jobs in the construction trades.
Investing in other infrastructure projects can boost a sagging economy by adding an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 new jobs for every $1 billion invested. Moreover, such projects occur in communities, giving local workers a competitive edge and producing untold ripple effects in local economies.
Elena Foshay, a researcher on our staff, reports that an aggressive program to promote domestic manufacturing of renewable energy products alone could help create or retain 85,000 permanent green-collar jobs on the factory floor, not to mention hundreds of thousands more indirect jobs in the local economy. It also would benefit up to 70,000 U.S. firms capable of making the required components, most located in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, California, and the 16 other states hardest hit by manufacturing job losses.
Speaking of Michigan, the leaders of the Big Three American auto companies were back in Washington to ask Congress for $34 billion in loans. Lawmakers are as skeptical of the American auto industry as you are. In response to our last Apollo Weekly Update on the auto industry bailout, we received a torrent of views, which you can read in our Apollo Feedback feature here.
Knowing what you know now, is rejecting an auto bailout a sound decision? Is clean energy the way to go for rebuilding the economy? Do you like or dislike what you’re hearing from Washington and the new administration? Let me know and we’ll post your comment in our next Apollo Feedback feature. Send to keith@apolloalliance.org.
Data Points: The New Apollo Program Fact Sheet
November 24, 2008 by Elena Foshay · 2 Comments
The New Apollo Program will generate billions of dollars in savings each year through greater efficiency in buildings, industrial facilities, power plants, and the power grid. It will generate and invest $500 billion over the next ten years and create more than five million high quality green-collar jobs.
Apollo Weekly Update, 11/13/08: President-elect and New Principles
November 13, 2008 by Keith Schneider · Leave a Comment
On August 4, 2008, Barack Obama formally unveiled a clean energy strategy to wean America from foreign oil and to begin solving climate change. His New Energy For America plan is a ten-year, $150 billion initiative that not coincidentally is the same title of our own 2004 study and entirely consistent with the goals of The New Apollo Program, which we rolled out in six states last month. All three plans call for scaling up the tools and practices of a clean energy economy, and charting a new development strategy for the United States.
Obama owned the clean energy message during the campaign. His victory is a powerful demonstration of the economic transformation most Americans expect and want his administration to lead.
We all know how hard the transition will be. But the new president’s work on clean energy will be helped by two new and powerful market forces that the Obama campaign helped to crystallize.
The first is the influence and relationship of the American economy with fossil fuel. Until very recently, one of the underlying principles of the American economy was that the more fossil fuel we used, the wealthier we became. That is no longer the case, not is it likely to be ever again. The more fossil fuel we use the more impoverished and endangered we are.
The second is a profound change in the relationship between environmental and economic principles. Since the early 1960s environmentalists have helped the nation understand how economic principles affect the environment. Economic development produces wealth. It also produces pollution and toxins and ill-advised construction that threatens species, babies, wild lands, and communities.
The Obama campaign, working on the idea that the Apollo Alliance elevated to national prominence since its founding more than four years ago, turned that nearly 50-year-old frame around. Look at the potential, he essentially argued, when environmental principles are applied to the economy. Energy efficiency, conservation, rapid transit, clean vehicles, biofuels, wind, and solar represent the most important new growth sectors in the nation, capable not only of fixing the economy and healing the environment, but also of producing millions of family-supporting jobs.
“We simply cannot pretend that we can drill our way out of this problem,” he said in August. “We need a much bolder and much bigger set of solutions. We have to make a serious, nationwide commitment to developing new sources of energy and we have to do it right away.”
The question, in the face of soaring budget deficits and financial crisis, is can he deliver? The answer, if you pay attention to our Web site, is that America’s clean energy economy already is unfolding. Twenty-nine states have enacted renewable energy standards to compel development of wind, solar, and other alternative energy sources in the utility industry. Clean energy production and development is a $25 billion-a-year industry, and the fastest growing industrial sector in the country. Clean energy is responsible for an estimated 500,000 new jobs since 2004, according to figures from states, investment analysts, and the wind, solar, geothermal, and other clean energy trade associations.
What’s needed from the federal government, say executives and elected leaders is the same thing that The New Apollo Program advocates and that President-elect Obama says he will act on quickly: A big, focused investment program to scale up the clean energy tools and technology that already exist.
Millions of family-supporting jobs are possible. Leo Gerard, the president of the United Steelworkers of America and an Apollo Alliance board member, is fond of telling audiences that it takes 26 tons of sheet steel and 19,000 parts to make and install a wind turbine generator.
Along with Obama’s victory, another place where America’s clean energy transition has made its presence known is in political campaigns. More than 70 percent of the transit measures on ballots across the country were approved, including the $10 billion bond for a regional high speed rail network in California. My colleague Heidi Pickman is documenting clean energy’s influence in election victories on the Apollo blog. If you know of clean energy electoral successes please email her.
We know you are intensely interested. When we asked last week what President Obama should do first, so many of you responded that we published your dispatches in two Apollo Feedback posts here and here.
The Apollo Alliance is in the thick of the national work to accelerate the clean energy, good jobs economy. We anticipate some big announcements over the next few weeks as the new administration and a new Congress start to put in place the clean energy, good jobs investments and policies that Americans last week overwhelmingly said they support.
Apollo Update, 8/1/08: Teamsters Sign on to Clean Energy Economy
October 25, 2008 by Keith Schneider · Leave a Comment
When he declared last week in Oakland that “we’re not going to participate any longer in any ANWR coalition. We are out of that and out of it forever,” Teamsters President James P. Hoffa added two more cars to the gathering freight train of popular support for a new clean energy, good jobs national economic strategy.
The first car, of course, is packed with the 1.4 million members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, now much greener than they’ve ever been. And the second is occupied by Hoffa himself.
In his widely-watched speech he called for a comprehensive energy policy – “What about solar power, what about wind power?” he asked. Hoffa joins Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, Al Gore, T. Boone Pickens, Nancy Pelosi, Tim Pawlenty and others who are closing in on an astonishing bipartisan consensus about how to respond to the most critical issues of our time – energy, the economy, developing and retaining good jobs, and climate change.
If you remove the hot button outliers — like outer continental shelf drilling, which really has no relevance in the short-term because it’s expensive, politically divisive, and likely decades away from producing useful amounts of energy — the agreement on the rest is striking.
1. America can’t drill its way out of addiction to oil.
2. Efficiency and conservation are consequential pieces of a comprehensive energy strategy.
3. Scaling up wind, solar, geothermal, clean fuel made from grass, and other renewables reduces the triple-barreled risk to our security, economy, and environment.
4. New technology – especially in the development of clean next-generation vehicles, and in dramatically reducing CO2 pollution from burning coal for electricity – is essential.
5. These steps will produce a blossoming economy and millions of good jobs that people can count on, reduce the risk of climate change, curb the $700 billion a year bill for foreign oil, and dramatically improve national security.
Arguably, not since the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 has America reached such formidable agreement on what to do about a major threat to its well-being. What a challenge and an opportunity. I’ve been in 20 states this year as a journalist and an advocate, talking to people about the transition we confront. My conclusion is that Americans are more than ready to take up the challenge. They are eager to engage. The much larger problem is whether lawmakers in the states and in Washington, D.C. will be there for them.
This week Apollo Chairman Phil Angelides was in Washington with Maryland’s Governor Martin O’Malley and a group of Democratic Senators who asked him to help sort through the issues and the solutions. Energy is issue number one in the nation’s capital, as it is in the presidential election. The question come January, when the new president takes office and a new Congress is seated, is: What comes first? A grimy ideological debate about offshore drilling that does nothing about supply or price? Or something that matters, like investment in efficiency and renewable energy that can make a difference immediately?
Afterwards, Phil told a news conference that America was mobilizing around a new national purpose and was ready to support a new national energy and economic strategy. Ours is called The New Apollo Program.
“We need to renew our can-do spirit and enact a new Apollo program for America that gets us off oil, makes us energy independent, invests in clean energy, and creates a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs,” Phil said. “America has an extraordinary opportunity to embrace bold action, take charge of our destiny, and put people to work to secure a more prosperous future.”
You all heard about T. Boone Pickens, who is causing a sensation nationally with his prominent support for wind energy. You can read about another oilman in the same mold in the Midwest. He’s Martin Lagina, who earned a fortune drilling for natural gas in northern Michigan in the 1990s, and is now building wind farms in his home region.
If you haven’t already, please consider signing our petitionopposing outer continental shelf drilling and supporting investment in clean energy and green-collar jobs.
Keep in touch with clean energy, good jobs news on our Apollo Daily Digest. And look for upcoming articles on our Web site on how cities are leading the pack on developing clean, green economic strategies, and more about grass gas development.
Hope your summer is going well. Here in northern Michigan, after a slow and cold start it’s been warm, shimmering, clear, and magnificent. Feels good. Talk to you next week and have fun.
Apollo Update, 6/19/08: Washington’s Disconnect
October 25, 2008 by Keith Schneider · Leave a Comment
You just have to wonder what is in the minds of lawmakers in Washington. Plainly the sobering reality that most of us experience -– gasoline about to clear $5 a gallon, rising frequency of droughts and 
floods, shrinking incomes, fiscal deficits – is prompting desire in Washington to retreat rather than courage to advance.
How else can you explain the White House bid this week to encourage more offshore oil drilling, which will have absolutely no effect now or in the future on petroleum prices. Or consider the Legislative inability to approve an appropriation for green-collar job training, or to renew tax creditsfor wind, solar, and other clean energy technologies? Those programs, by the way, have produced large and proven economic returns while producing no climate change pollution.
Here at Apollo, we’re not throwing up our hands. Today we joined our partners in Oakland, Green For All, in sending out an alert asking you to get in touch with your House and Senate members, urging them to fund the Green Jobs Act and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program. Please tell lawmakers to approve the appropriation.
Also out here on the West Coast, the California Apollo Alliance is helping to craft a $2.25 billion bond measure, SB1672, the Renewable Energy, Climate Change, Career Technical Education, and Clean Technology Job Creation Bond Act of 2010. The measure, sponsored by Darrell Steinberg, president pro-tem of the California state Senate, would fund construction of new and retrofitted educational facilities for public middle and high schools, and community colleges that provide skills for careers in clean technology, including renewable energy and energy efficiency. SB1672 has passed the full Senate and will be heard before the Assembly Natural Resources Committee on June 23.
One more transition that occurred here this week is that Lucy Blake, the CEO of the Apollo Alliance, has decided to leave Apollo to pursue new challenges. Lucy joined Apollo as CEO last year and led the organization through an important transition.
During her tenure, Apollo achieved significant progress — consolidating operations into a single, new entity based in San Francisco and Washington, more than doubling the organization’s annual budget, recruiting a team of excellent staff to drive Apollo’s work going forward, engaging Apollo’s closest organizational allies in the development of The New Apollo Plan, recruiting a first-rate Board, and otherwise laying the groundwork for Apollo’s expanded influence and effectiveness.
“No one has worked harder to strengthen the Apollo Alliance than Lucy. We’re sorry to see her move on and wish her the very best in all of her future endeavors,” said Apollo Board Chairman Phil Angelides in announcing her departure.
Stepping up to lead the transition are Cathy Calfo and Kate Gordon who will serve as interim co-directors. Kate was most recently Apollo’s program director. Previously, she served as the director of the Apollo Strategy Center, and as an employment and consumer rights attorney at Trial Lawyers for Public Justice in Oakland, CA. Cathy was previously Apollo’s deputy director. Cathy joined the Apollo Alliance in November 2007, after a distinguished career building and leading progressive organizations and serving as California’s deputy state treasurer for six years.
Lastly, we draw your attention again to our new Daily Digest, a five-day per week compendium of news, commentary, reports, people, places, and events shaping the clean energy, good jobs economy. Chris Greenspan, our Daily Digest reporter and writer, is doing a terrific job. We’ve had inquiries from several of you out there in the Apollo nation about subscribing. Well, here’s your chance and tell your friends and family, too. Go to yoursubscription management page and check the Daily Digest box, click update, then click continue, and it will appear in your in-box every day starting on Monday. Chris has turned the Digest into a must-read clean energy report.
My Apollo Feedback question this week isn’t solely about the proposal to drill for more offshore oil. It’s this: If you were President, what energy strategy would you advocate? Send your comments to me – keith@apolloalliance.org – and please keep them succinct and include the place where you are writing from. We’ll post them in our Apollo Feedback feature.
Apollo Weekly Update - 5/2/08: Action in States, Plus Gas Tax Holiday
October 25, 2008 by Keith Schneider · Leave a Comment
There’s been progress of late in states to respond to the national energy crisis, and the economic adversity it is fostering.
Yesterday, after months of deliberations, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, a Democrat, signed a detailed energy policy law. The most significant clean energy provision requires utilities to help customers reduce electricity consumption by 22 percent by 2025, thereby reducing the need for expensive new power plants. A second provision calls for producing 12.5 percent of the electricity sold in the state with clean, renewable sources by 2025. But the state utility commission can negate the renewable energy standard if certain electricity rate levels are exceeded.
Kate Gordon, the knowing program director here at the Apollo Alliance, reports that Governor Strickland’s goal for the new energy efficiency and renewable energy standards is to reduce emissions and bring much-needed green-collar jobs into the state. “In fact,” she writes, “the governor cited the Ohio Apollo Alliance’s “Generating Energy, Generating Jobs” report – showing big gains for Ohio’s beleaguered manufacturing sector – when he first proposed the energy bill.”
Read more about it here
See “Generating Energy, Generating Jobs” here
The Hawaii Legislature last week also took an important step for clean energy and good jobs by unanimously approving a bill that takes the first step in establishing a solar energy rebate program. The bill, which awaits Republican Governor Linda Lingle’s signature, encourages and authorizes the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission to establish a ratepayer-funded program to promote the use of solar energy technology.
“With the highest electricity prices in the nation, 92% dependence on imported fossil fuels, and abundant sunshine, this bill makes enormous sense,” said my colleague Carla Din, the Apollo Alliance’s western field director, who worked with one of Apollo’s business partners, provided technical assistance, researched the issue, and helped craft the original bill.
Nice work Carla.
Not to be outdone, the Alaska Legislature early in April passed a $300 million appropriation for helping homeowners and businesses reduce energy costs. The proposal expands the scope of Alaska’s home weatherization program ($200 million) and included $100 million for energy efficiency updates. The bill, says William Theuer, one of our supporters in Alaska, “promises real energy savings through conservation, and importantly, it’s new work for green-collar contractors and inspectors.”
The Alaska legislature also appropriated $50 million for a renewable energy grant fund to support entrepreneurs testing Alaska’s clean energy markets. Both bills await the signature of Republican Governor Sarah Palin, who delivered her fifth child, a boy, last month.
Read more about the Alaska bill here
And more about the weatherization and energy rebates here
A few weeks back several of our Hillary Clinton supporters took umbrage when we noted that Barack Obama mentioned the Apollo Alliance in the last Democratic presidential debate. So mindful of sensitivities and fairness, we want to spotlight Senator Clinton’s speech in Fort Wayne, and comments she made during nearly every other public appearance this week in Indiana, when she repeatedly said, “You’ve heard of white-collar jobs and blue-collar jobs. We’re going to create green-collar jobs.”
Click here for a NYT piece about Clinton’s stance on green-collar jobs
Senator Clinton and Senator John McCain have reached agreement on one energy strategy – temporarily suspending the 18.5 cents per gallon federal gas tax for the summer. Thomas Friedman of the New York Times attacked the proposal this week. “This is not an energy policy,” he wrote. “This is money laundering: we borrow money from China and ship it to Saudi Arabia and take a little cut for ourselves as it goes through our gas tanks. What a way to build our country.”
Senator Obama, meanwhile, countered this week with a proposal that from this vantage makes sense: expanding the nation’s rail system to provide drivers with more alternatives. “With gas prices what they are, we should be expanding rail service,” Senator Obama said during a campaign stop in Indiana. “We are going to be having a lot of conversations this summer about gas prices. And it’s a perfect time to start talk about why we don’t have better rail service. We are the only advanced country in the world that doesn’t have high speed rail. Rail is a lot more reliable and it is a good way for us to start reducing how much gas we are using.”
For our Apollo Feedback feature next week I’d like to know what you think? Gas tax holiday? Public Investment in new rail initiatives. Something else? Write to me atkeith@apolloalliance.org.
Around the office it’s been another productive week. Jerome Ringo, our president and resident voice of clean energy reason and good jobs passion, was named this month by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the “30 people changing the environment in Washington.” The man’s a miracle worker.
There’s also a keen feature on the home page, reported by Forbes.com, that details the largest clean energy projects in the world. Can we bring clean energy to scale? We already are.
See news about Jerome and big clean energy projects on our home page at www.apolloalliance.org
We’re starting to roll a little bit with the Web site, as you’ll see. More to come, of course. The fifth and final article from “Apollo’s Fire,” about green building and neighborhood revival in Newark, was posted this week. Thanks to authors Bracken Hendricks and Representative Jay Inslee, and Jaime Jennings of Island Press for making it happen.
See From Brownfields to Green Neighborhoods here
Lastly Heidi Pickman, our communications associate, is tracking green-collar job numbers and is documenting them on the new Apollo blog. If you have information about clean energy companies, agencies, industries, sectors that have generated solid data about the number of green-collar jobs they’ve produced, could you let her know atpickman@aoolloalliance.org.
Heidi’s first post on the topic is here
Energy, it’s very clear, is the issue of our time. We love all the help and feedback. Keep it coming. We hope and trust you see the Apollo Alliance as an essential forum of clean energy, good jobs ideas, news, comment, and research.
Let’s hear from you. All ideas about our work are welcome. Trust your week goes well and talk to you soon.
