New York City Green-Collar Jobs Roadmap

Center for American Progress / by J. Mijin Cha and Jack Dafoe
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/10/nyc_green_jobs.html
[From press release] The roadmap’s recommendations comprise a step-by-step plan to grow an inclusive green economy and can be classified into six overarching issue areas, including:
• Grow the green economy to create good green-collar jobs.
• Ensure green jobs are good jobs and reach target [...]

A Conversation on Southern Energy : the 2009 Report on the Future of the South

Southern Growth Policies Board / by by Scott Doron, Charity Pennock, Linda Hoke, Stephen Whitlow, and Ted Abernathy
http://www.southern.org/pubs/fos_2009/2009Report.pdf
[From Climate Wire story] The Southern Growth Policies Board, a Raleigh, N.C.-based bipartisan think tank created by Southern governors, turned the jobs argument on its head yesterday, impressing upon congressional staff during a closed-door meeting that huge job [...]

A Green Energy Alternative for Michigan

Synapse Energy Economic
http://docs.nrdc.org/energy/ene_09081101.asp
[Website]  This report lays out in detail how Michigan can meet its energy needs through a reliance on clean energy. A portfolio of 21st Century Energy Choices is less expensive, cleaner, faster, more economically robust and creates more jobs in Michigan than a 20th Century plan based on new, large fossil-fired power plants.

Preparing the Workers of Today for the Jobs of Tomorrow

President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/Jobs-of-the-Future/
[From executive summary] In this report, the CEA presents a projection of potential developments in the U.S. labor market over the next five to ten years and discusses the preparations necessary to develop the 21st century workforce…[The report predicted a 52 percent growth between 2000 and 2016 for environment-based jobs.] [...]

Clean Energy Economy

Pew Center on the States
http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/report_detail.aspx?id=52872
“Pew Center on the States found that jobs in the clean energy economy grew at a national rate of 9.1 percent, while traditional jobs grew by only 3.7 percent between 1998 and 2007. There was a similar pattern at the state level, where job growth in the clean energy economy outperformed [...]

An Outline of the Case for a ‘Green’ Stimulus

Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change, London School of Economics and Finance / by AlexBowen, Sam Fankhauser, Nicholas Stern and Dmitri Zenghelis
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/granthamInstitute/publications/An%20outline%20of%20the%20case%20for%20a%20%27green%27%20stimulus.pdf
• Given the uncertainties at this point, it makes sense to implement
a diverse set of measures, but with the emphasis on spending
increases rather than across-the-board tax cuts…
• Action on climate change remains urgent. [...]

Employment and Other Economic Benefits from Advanced Coal Electric Generation with Carbon Capture and Storage (Preliminary Results)

BBC Research and Consulting for: Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers, and Helpers, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, United Mine Workers of America and American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity
http://www.americaspower.org/content/download/1459/10428/file/BBC%20FINAL%20020709.pdf
[Behindtheplug.com] In a new report, a coalition of key labor groups find that between 5 million and 7 million [...]

Priorities for Michigan’s Economic Future : Jobs, Education and Protecting Families (State of the State Address)

State of Michigan, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/gov/SOS2009_265915_7.pdf
[NRDC press release] Governor Granholm spent nearly one-third of this evening’s State of the State address outlining a new energy vision for the state of Michigan.
[WSJ Environmental Capital] Michigan just became the latest state to target the role of coal in the energy mix. Gov. Jennifer Granholm, in a [...]

High Road or Low Road? Job Quality in the New Green Economy

Good Jobs First / by PhilipMattera [with] Alec Dubro,Yomas Gradel and RachelYompson; Kate Gordon and Elena Foshay of the Apollo Alliance
http://www.eenews.net/features/documents/2009/02/03/document_gw_02.pdf
[From introduction] Decisions made today about green jobs will have profound consequences for our economy, environment, and social fabric for decades to come. Given how much is at stake, the transition must be approached with [...]

State of Green Business 2009

created by Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com
http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2009/02/02/green-business-growing-but-not-fast-enough-report
[Website] Green business activity has continued to grow, even during a down economy, but the aggregate environmental progress being made is marginal, according to a new report, titled “State of Green Business 2009,” the second annual report of its kind published by GreenBiz.com.
The State of Green Business [...]