Green Collar Jobs And Your Community

Green Collar Jobs And Your Community

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  Green-collar Jobsand Your Community Phillips Neighborhood Environmental Justice Forum and Feast May 9, 2008
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  Overview What isa green-collar job? What’s happening with green-collar jobs in Minneapolis/St. Paul? What can you do to bring community leadership to the issue of green-collar jobs?
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  What IS a“ green-collar ” job? Improves environmental quality Is a family-sustaining job, with opportunities for advancement in pay and skills Hmmmm…something missing?
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  What are someissues of environmental quality in your community? Arsenic Engine fumes (esp. diesel) Drinking water quality Lead paint Industrial emissions Indoor air quality Parks and green-space management Healthy food availability Trash and recycling pickup/removal Littering Public transportation issues GLOBAL WARMING More?
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  What is a family-sustaining job? Good, life-supporting wage Full medical benefits Retirement benefits Vacation Overtime pay Child Care Union—collective workers’ rights More?
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  Sounds good…so, what’smissing? YOU!!
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  What do YOU want for YOUR community? Clean air & water Healthy & safe neighborhood Jobs to support your family Healthy food Healthy people-health insurance Justice & equity & rights Good education Cultural wellness & integrity GOOD FUTURE , for me and my children MORE!!!
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  More specific green-collar job ideas: Government Labor, job training folks Local business, and/or provider and manager of the jobs YOU, the community Who is at the sustainable table when talking about green-collar jobs?
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  More specific green-collar job ideas: What are we having to eat at our green-collar job table in Minneapolis/St. Paul? Government Labor, job training folks Local business, and/or provider and manager of the jobs YOU, the community
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  More specific green-collar job ideas: Government Labor, job training folks Local business, and/or provider and manager of the jobs YOU, the community Energy efficiency retrofits Making food systems local (again) Green Manufacturing
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  Energy Efficiency RetrofitsWork on an EXISTING building to use less energy Success in Oakland, CA Apollo Alliance: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 595 Paid job training program ending in paid internships and commitments to hire ALSO: White Earth and Little Earth
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  Making Food SystemsLocal (again) Produce a variety of food in urban and regional rural areas Local food processing and distribution Success in Milwaukee, WI: Growing Power Living Skills projects with community partners: 10 groups Multi-year apprenticeship Youth Corps
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  Green Manufacturing Theactual creation of the products and parts needed to improve env’t Decrease global warming gases MINNEAPOLS/ST PAUL: NOW MSP and Blue-Green Alliance doing analysis. “ Making it Green in Minneapolis Saint Paul” ADD COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP!
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  What YOU can do! Sign up for more info!! Use web resources—listed at end Call the Mayor’s office, talk to your City Council members Talk to the Blue-Green Alliance Talk to your community Talk to your employers
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  Join The ClimateJustice Working Group!! A space for people of color and low income communities to engage, network and be empowered for self-advocacy around climate change impacts and solutions that affect their communities. Green-collar jobs = potential solution Meet every third Tuesday!
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  QUESTIONS? Web resources(national and local): www.greenforall.org www.ellabakercenter.org/gcjc www.growingpower.org www.apolloalliance.org www.cows.org (Center on Wisconsin Strategy) www.1sky.org www.ejcc.org (Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative) www.honorearth.org (Honor the Earth) www.bluegreenalliance.org (Contact them about MSP) Coming soon!!! www.mnclimatejustice.org www.w-e-i.org and www.ejamn.org More!!