Green Collar Jobs
ARTICLES
Tom Barrett, "Remarks of Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett," Mayors' Climate Summit, Seattle, WA: U.S. Conference of Mayors, November 1, 2007.
article-barrett.pdf (80KB)
Brita Belli, "Welcome to Green-Collar America: Does the Future of the American Middle Class Lie in Sustainable Business?" E Magazine, Volume XVIII, Number 6, November-December 2007.
article-belli.pdf (320KB)
John Funk, "EBO Group aims to be at forefront of plug-in hybrid technology," Cleveland Plain Dealer, December 12, 2007.
article-funk.pdf (65KB)
Jerry D. Glover, Cindy M. Cox, and John P. Reganold, "Future Farming: A Return to Roots?" Scientific American, August 2007, pp. 82-89.
article-glover-et-al.pdf (1.1MB)
Green for All, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the Green Jobs Act of 2007, Oakland, CA: Green For All, February 2008.
article-green-for-all.pdf (50KB)
Van Jones, "The New Environmentalists," ColorLines, issue 39, July-August 2007.
article-jones.pdf (65KB)
David Kupper, "Bridging the Green: Van Jones on Jobs, Jails, and Environmental Justice," The Sun, March 2008, pp. 4-12.
article-kupper.pdf (530KB)
Peter Krouse, "Green-collar jobs growing in Northeast Ohio," Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 10, 2008.
article-krouse.pdf (320KB)
Tracy Fernandez Rysavy, "Environmental Justice for All," Co-op America Quarterly, fall 2007, pp. 14-17, 19.
article-rysavy.pdf (170KB)
Mary Swanton, "Strange Bedfellows," Inside Counsel Magazine, April 2008.
article-swanton.pdf (65KB)
Stephen Thompson, "Backyard powerhouses: "Green Tags" spur development of renewable power co-ops in Northwest," Rural Cooperatives, September-October 2004, pp. 18-19, 36.
article-thompson.pdf (240KB)
Susan M. Wachter, Kevin C. Gillen, and Carolyn R. Brown, “Green Investment Strategies: A Positive Force in Cities,” Communities & Banking, spring 2008, pp. 24-27.
article-wachter-et-al.pdf (1.8MB)

BOOKS
Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters and Don Chen, “Overview,” Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2008.
chapter-ewing-et-al.pdf (7.3MB)
Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks, Apollo's Fire: Igniting America's Clean Energy Economy, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2007.
book-inslee-hendricks-chp1.pdf (600KB)

PAPERS
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Apollo Alliance, The New Apollo Program: Good Energy, Good Jobs, San Francisco,
CA: Apollo Alliance, September 2008.
paper-apollo.pdf (1.3MB)
John Bailey, Carbon Caps With Universal Dividends: Equitable, Ethical & Politically Effective Climate Policy, Minneapolis, MN: New Rules Project, January 2008.
paper-bailey08.pdf (950KB)
John Bailey, Lessons from the Pioneers: Tackling Global Warming at the Local Level, Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, January 2007.
paper-bailey07.pdf (460KB)
Roger H. Bezdek, Economic and Jobs Impacts of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Industries: U.S. and Ohio, Cleveland, OH: Solar 2007, July 2007.
paper-bezdek.pdf (395KB)
Bill Endicott, Amy Fiato, Scott Foster, TaiLin Huang, and Peter Totev, Research on Building Deconstruction: Final Project Report, paper for CE 268E Civil Systems and the Environment Professor Arpad Horvath, Berkeley, CA: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering and Project Management, University of California, Berkeley, May 13, 2005.
paper-endicott-et-al.pdf (740KB)
John Farrell, Minnesota Feed-In Tariff Could Lower Cost, Boost Renewables and Expand Local Ownership, Policy Brief, Minneapolis, MN: New Rules Project, January 2008.
paper-farrell.pdf (700KB)
Omar Freilla, Green Development for Environmental Justice & Healthy Communities, Bronx, NY: Green Worker Cooperatives, 2005.
paper-freilla.pdf (140KB)
Kate Gordon, Jeremy Hays, Leon Sompolinsky, Elizabeth Tan, and Jackie Tsou, Community Jobs in the Green Economy, San Francisco and Oakland, CA: Apollo Alliance and Urban Habitat, 2007.
paper-gordon-et-al.pdf (3.5MB)
Brad Heavner and Bernadette Del Chiaro, Renewable Energy and Jobs: Employment Impacts of Developing Markets for Renewables in California, Sacramento, CA: Environment California Research and Policy Center, July 2003.
paper-heavner-del-chiaro.pdf (315KB)
Daniel M. Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Generate? — Report of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, Berkeley, CA: Energy and Resources Group, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, April 13, 2004, updated January 31, 2006.
paper-kammen-et-al.pdf (270KB)
Gregory H. Kats, Green Building Costs and Financial Benefits, Westborough, MA: Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, 2003.
paper-kats.pdf (480KB)
David Morris, Driving Our Way to Energy Independence, Minneapolis, MN: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, April 2008.
paper-morris.pdf (650KB)
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Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Job Opportunities for the Green Economy:
A State-by-State Picture of Occupations That Gain by Green Investments, Amherst,
MA: Political Economy Research Institute, June 2008.
paper-pollins-wicks-lim.pdf (330KB)
Joel Rogers, Seizing the Opportunity (for Climate, Jobs, and Equity) in Building Energy Efficiency, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 2007.
paper-rogers.pdf (185KB)
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Stockton Williams, Bringing Home the Benefits of Energy Efficiency to Low-Income Households, Columbia, MD: Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. 2008.
paper-s-williams08.pdf (5MB)
George Sterzinger and Matt Svrcek, Wind Turbine Development: Location of Manufacturing Activity, Technical Report, Washington, DC: Renewable Energy Policy Project, September 2004.
paper-sterzinger-svrcek.pdf (1.6KMB)
John M. Urbanchuk, Contribution of the Ethanol Industry to the Economy of the United States, prepared for the Renewable Fuels Association, Wayne, PA: LECG, February 19, 2007.
paper-urbanchuk.pdf (190KB)

REPORTS
Mark Baker, Socioeconomic Characteristics of the Natural Resources Restoration System in Humboldt County, California, Taylorsville, CA: Forest Community Research, March 2004.
report-baker.pdf (1.7MB)
Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, Boulder, CO: American Solar Energy Society, 2007.
report-bezdek.pdf (1.2MB)
Lori Bird and Blair Swezey, Green Power Marketing in the United States: A Status Report (Eighth Edition), Technical Report, NREL/TP-620-38994, Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, October 2005.
report-bird-swezey.pdf (2.4MB)
Jack Dafoe, Growing Green Collar Jobs: Energy Efficiency, report for the New York City Apollo Alliance, New York, NY: Urban Agenda, 2007.
report-dafoe07.pdf (14.4MB)
Jack Dafoe, Empowering Gotham: State Action to Build New York City's New Energy Economy, New York City Apollo Alliance, convened by Urban Agenda, New York, NY: Urban Agenda, December 2006.
report-dafoe06.pdf (690KB)
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Justin Dahlheimer, Balancing Budgets by Raising Depletion Taxes, Minneapolis,
MN: The New Rules Project, June 2008.
report-dahlheimer.pdf (1MB)
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Sharon Feigon, Combating Global Warming Through Sustainable Surface Transportation
Policy, Chicago, IL: Center for Neighborhood Technology, March 2003.
report-feigon-et-al.pdf (3.6MB)
Diane Gasaway, Deborah Ross, Jennifer Grove, and Peter Moulton, Our Wind Cooperative: Energy Independence for the Northwest, final report prepared for USDA's Value-Added Development Grant Program, Olympia and Seattle, WA: Northwest Cooperative Development Center, Last Mile Electric Cooperative, Northwest Sustainable Energy for Economic Development, and Climate Solutions, October 2005.
report-gasaway-et-al.pdf (350KB)
Kate Gordon and Jeremy Hays, with Jason Walsh, Bracken Hendricks, and Sarah White, Green Collar Jobs in America's Cities: Building Pathways Out of Poverty and Careers in the Clean Energy Economy, San Francisco and Oakland, CA; Washington, DC; and Madison, WI: Apollo Alliance, Green for All, Center for American Progress and Center on Wisconsin Strategy, 2008.
report-gordon-hayes-et-al.pdf (1.4MB)
Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com, The State of Green Business 2008, Oakland, CA: Greener World Media, January 2008.
report-makower-et-al.pdf (1.8MB)
Eric Martinot, Renewables 2007: Global Status Report, Paris, France and Washington, DC: Renewable Energy Network for the 21st Century Secretariat and Worldwatch Institute, 2008.
report-martinot.pdf (480KB)
Raquel Pinderhughes, Green Collar Jobs: An Analysis of the Capacity of Green Businesses to Provide High Quality Jobs for Men and Women with Barriers to Employment: A Report for the City of Berkeley, Berkeley, CA: City of Berkeley, 2007.
report-pinderhughes.pdf (1.6MB)
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Brenda Platt, David Ciplet, Kate M. Bailey and Eric Lombardi, Stop Trashing the
Climate, Washington, DC: Institute for Local Self-Reliance, June 2008.
report-platt-et-al.pdf (6.4MB)
John Podesta, Todd Stern, and Kit Batten, Capturing the Energy Opportunity: Creating a Low-Carbon Economy, Washington, DC: Center for American Progress, November 2007.
report-podesta-et-al.pdf (2.9MB)
Tony Proscio, Affordable Housing's Green Future: Building a Movement for Durable, Healthier and More Efficient Housing: Lessons from Minnesota and Beyond, Columbia, MD: Enterprise Community Partners, 2007.
report-proscio.pdf (2.3MB)
Sarah White and Jason Walsh, with Kate Gordon and Jeremy Hays, Greener Pathways: Jobs and Workforce Development in the Clean Energy Economy, Madison, WI: Center on Wisconsin Strategy, 2008.
report-white-walsh-et-al.pdf (12.2MB)
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