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A crucial starting point for the rejuvenation of our economy is to focus on building rapid, large-scale deployment of energy independence and employment training to support the green-energy industry in five key areas:

Energy Efficiency (50% savings in five years)
Solar and wind (achieving an all-renewable electric grid)
Plug-in electric hybrids-PHEVs- (to make up at least 20% of the U.S. fleet in ten years)
Smart grid (rebuilding our aging electric grid with a smart grid that makes it easy to scale up energy efficiency and renewables)
New national and state electric utility regulation and building codes that make it easy to scale up with efficiency, renewables, and PHEVs.

DC Green Employment Initiative

Green Employment Alliance

Good sources for finding Green Employment:

Business for Social Responsibility, a group that helps companies navigate sustainability issues, is a good place to start. SustainableBusiness.com is an excellent source for employment because it broadly covers all sectors that impact sustainability: government, renewable energy, efficiency, green building, green investing, and organics. Others are treehugger.com and ecojobs.com, which include a broad array of positions from conservation to engineering to international opportunities. Idealist.org focuses on the non-profit sector. Greenjobs.com focuses on the renewable fuel industry. GreenBiz.com and GreenJobs.net also contain employment boards.

Green For All is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. By advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy – especially for people from disadvantaged communities – Green For All fights both poverty and pollution at the same time.

What They Do:

Link activists and advocates, organizations, policy makers, practitioners, and business, labor, and community leaders together in dialogue to advance the vision of a green economy that benefits all Americans;

Lift public awareness on the potential of green-collar jobs to transform the economy, curb global warming, and build pathways out of poverty;

Leverage best green practices and policy into model programs and legislation that can be adopted at the national, state or local level;

Provide technical assistance to mayors and community groups to implement local green-collar job initiatives; and

Build an on-line community of practice to convene thought-leaders and share leading program models, technical documents and templates.