Green-Collar Jobs for Urban America
By Van Jones and Ben Wyskida
YES! Magazine. Posted to alternet.org February 26, 2007.
The city of Oakland is creating jobs as unlikely allies push a green and local agenda to revitalize a depressed urban economy.
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A "green-collar job" involves environment-friendly products or services. Construction work on a green building, organic farming, solar panel manufacturing, bicycle repair: all are "green jobs." The green-collar economy is big money, and it's booming. Including renewable energy and clean technology, "green" is the fifth largest market sector in the United States.
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Connected to the National Apollo Alliance, an effort to create three million clean energy jobs in the next decade, the Oakland Apollo Alliance is one of the nation's first roundtables committed to job creation for low-income people and people of color in the green, sustainable economy. Inspiring efforts were already taking place all over Oakland ...
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