Green Collar Jobs

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

Alliance for Climate Protection
www.wecansolveit.org
The Alliance for Climate Protection is a nonprofit organization founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The group aims to halt global warming by promoting renewable sources of energy, energy efficiency, and the development of a “clean energy” economy.

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
www.aceee.org
Formed in 1980 by leading researchers in the energy efficiency field, the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy has grown to have programs addressing many major sectors of the U.S. economy, including national and state energy policy, buildings and equipment, utilities, industry and agriculture, and transportation. Over its long history, the organization has helped spearhead state and federal adoption of efficiency standards for more than two-dozen products and has assisted many states and utilities in designing energy efficiency programs.

American Council on Renewable Energy
www.acore.org
The American Council on Renewable Energy aims to bring renewable energy into the mainstream of the economy through convening, research, education and communications. ACORE promotes a wide range of renewable energy technologies including solar, wind power, hydroelectric power, tidal power, geothermal, biomass and biofuels, and waste energy and fuels.

American Solar Energy Society
www.ases.org
Founded in 1954, the American Solar Energy Society now has more than 10,000 members across the nation that work together to help create a sustainable energy economy. The association has regional chapters in 36 states and forms the U.S. section of the International Solar Energy Society.

American Wind Energy Association
www.awea.org
The American Wind Energy Association is a national trade association representing wind power project developers, equipment suppliers, services providers, parts manufacturers, utilities, researchers, and others involved in the wind industry, as well as representing hundreds of wind energy advocates from around the world. The association provides up-to-date information on operating wind energy projects; new projects; companies working in the wind energy field; technological developments; and policy related to wind power and recyclable energy.

Apollo Alliance
www.apolloalliance.org/index.php
Founded in 2004, the Apollo Alliance is a coalition of business, labor, environmental, and community leaders working to catalyze a clean energy revolution in America to reduce the country's dependence on oil imports, cut carbon emissions, and expand opportunities for American businesses and workers. Among its efforts, Apollo has proposed a $300-billion, 10-year program of federal tax credits and investments, which the group believes can create 3.3 million new, high-wage jobs in manufacturing, construction, transportation, high tech, and the public sector, while reducing dependence on foreign oil and cleaning the environment.

Blue Green Alliance
www.bluegreenalliance.org
Launched in 2006, the Blue Green Alliance is led by the United Steelworkers and Sierra Club along with other "blue" (blue collar/labor) and "green" (environmental) partners. The group aims to heighten public awareness about the job-creating potential of solutions to global warming; use existing economic development tools to expand investment in clean energy and green chemistry; accelerate green building, energy efficient retrofits, and related spin-off industries; create more investments in green jobs, including those related to fuel-efficient vehicles; and reform trade agreements so they include binding labor rights and environmental standards.

Building Materials Reuse Association
www.buildingreuse.org
The Building Materials Reuse Association is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to facilitate building deconstruction and the reuse/recycling of recovered building materials.

Co-op America: Green Business Network
www.coopamerica.org/cabn
Co-op America's Green Business Network, formally established in 1992, has the explicit mission of helping the green business sector — businesses with deep social and environmental commitments — emerge and succeed. The Green Business Network markets small- to medium-sized green businesses through events such as the Green Festivals and publications such as Co-op America's National Green Pages.

Green Communities Initiative (Enterprise Community Partners)
www.greencommunitiesonline.org
Green Communities is a five-year, $555 million commitment by the community development intermediary Enterprise to build more than 8,500 healthy, efficient homes for low-income people and make environmentally sustainable development the mainstream in the affordable housing industry. Green Communities provides funds and expertise to enable developers to build and rehabilitate homes that are healthier, more energy efficient and better for the environment -- without compromising affordability.

Green For All
www.greenforall.org
Green For All is a national group that aims to build an inclusive green economy in a way that alleviates poverty and pollution at the same time. Launched at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2007, Green For All grew out of the work of activist Van Jones, who helped create a “Green Job Corps” in Oakland, California as part of a program at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights.

Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Waste to Wealth Program
www.ilsr.org/recycling/index.html
Since 1974, the Institute for Local Self Reliance's “Waste to Wealth” program has helped to convert wastes from environmental and economic liabilities into valuable resources that contribute to community development. Areas of focus include supporting the development of sustainable biomaterials to replace fossil-fuel-based plastics, developing green industrial parks, salvaging building materials through deconstruction, and promoting zero waste planning and recycling-based economic development (in place of waste incineration projects).

Mid Atlantic Consortium of Recycling and Economic
Development Officials
www.macredo.org
The Mid-Atlantic Consortium of Recycling and Economic Development Officials (also known as “MACREDO”) brings together recycling and economic development officials in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to identify, promote, and implement projects and programs that enhance recycling and economic development opportunities in the mid-Atlantic region.

National Biodiesel Board
www.biodiesel.org
The National Biodiesel Board is the national trade association representing the biodiesel industry in the United States. Biodiesel is a domestic, renewable fuel for diesel engines derived from natural oils like soybean oil.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
www.nrel.gov
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory began in 1977 as the Solar Energy Research Institute. It was designated a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy in September 1991 and its name changed to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory at that time. Today, it serves as the principal research laboratory for the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. From 2002 to 2006 its annual budget was flat in the $200-$230 million a year range. In Fiscal-Year 2007, its budget jumped up to $378.4 million.

*NEW*
One Sky
www.1sky.org
Created in 2007, One Sky’s goal is to focus the attention of millions of Americans on the single goal of extensive federal action to reverse global warming by 2010. Their solutions include five million green jobs, an immediate freeze on climate pollution levels, reduced 25% by 2020 and 50% by 2050, and no new coal plants.

Renewable Fuels Association
www.ethanolrfa.org
Founded in 1981, the Renewable Fuels Association is the national trade association for the U.S. ethanol industry. It promotes policies, regulations and research and development initiatives that will lead to the increased production and use of fuel ethanol.

Solar America Cities
www.solaramericacities.org
Solar America Cities is a partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and a select group of 25 cities across the country that have committed to accelerating the adoption of solar energy technologies at the local level. The selected Solar America Cities have teamed up with municipal, county, and state agencies, non-profit organizations, universities, utilities, developers, and solar companies to accelerate the adoption of solar energy. Solar America Cities is a key component of the federal government's Solar America Initiative which aims make electricity from photovoltaics cost-competitive with conventional utility grid electricity by 2015.

Union of Concerned Scientists
www.ucsusa.org
Begun as a collaborative effort between students and faculty members at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969, the Union of Concerned Scientists is now an alliance of more than 200,000 citizens and scientists. One of its primary areas of inquiry concerns policies to mitigate global warming, including the development of energy efficiency and recyclable energy.

US Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and
Recyclable Energy
www.eere.energy.gov
Funded at over $1.7 billion in Fiscal Year-2008, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Recyclable Energy provides grant support for alternative energy technology development in such areas as biomass and biofuels, solar power, wind power, advanced vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cells.

US Green Building Council
www.usgbc.org
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) is a nonprofit group that certifies sustainable businesses, homes, hospitals, schools, and neighborhoods and works to expand green building practices and education. The group is perhaps best known for its nationally recognized LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) green building rating system.

William J. Clinton Foundation, Clinton Climate Initiative
www.clintonfoundation.org/cf-pgm-cci-home.htm
Launched in August 2006, the Clinton Climate Initiative aims to apply a business-oriented approach to the fight against climate change in practical, measurable and significant ways. In its first phase, the program is working with the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, a group of large cities dedicated to tackling climate change, to develop and implement a range of actions that will accelerate greenhouse gas emissions reductions.