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Ramping up a co-ordinated campaign for green energy jobs

Thousands of people from around the country worked this week at the 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference on a clean energy hiring plan that will put Americans back to work with good, green jobs. We’ll be talking about the kinds of market incentives and reforms that will catch America up with the rest of the world — a renewable energy standard, incentives for energy efficiency, and the ramp up clean energy and electric auto manufacturing.

We Need a Clean Energy Hiring Plan, THE HUFFINGTON POST, David Foster, Feb 2011, More than 2,500 people from 48 states gathered this week in Washington for the fourth Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference — the leading forum for building a sustainable economy that creates good jobs and secures our economic and environmental future.

For the fourth year in a row, thousands of union members, environmentalists, business and community leaders came together to share ideas and strategies for creating good jobs that protect the environment for the next generation. From clean energy manufacturing and green transportation to energy-efficient buildings and green chemicals, people from all over the country are focusing on how to create good jobs by confronting our biggest environmental challenges…….

But winning the future won’t happen if we stay stuck in the economic orthodoxy of the past, relying on Wall St. to sell more of our manufacturing base to low-wage countries and a global oil oligarchy to siphon more of our hard-earned wages to the Middle East.

Thousands of people from around the country worked this week at the 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference on a clean energy hiring plan that will put Americans back to work with good, green jobs. We’ll be talking about the kinds of market incentives and reforms that will catch America up with the rest of the world — a renewable energy standard, incentives for energy efficiency, and the ramp up clean energy and electric auto manufacturing.

David Foster: We Need a Clean Energy Hiring Plan

March 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general