I’m going to be at the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference for the next few days here in Washington, D.C., where environmental activists, labor leaders, and politicos will be discussing how to make those jobs a reality.
The Blue Green Alliance, United Steelworkers, and Sierra Club are coordinating the conference. They’re also set to give the 2009 Blue Green Alliance Green Jobs Champion award to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at a ceremony Wednesday evening.
Other notable folks on the schedule include:
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D)
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D)
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.)
United Nations Environmental Programme Executive Director Achim Steiner
Alliance for Climate Protection CEO Cathy Zoi
Green For All President Van Jones
I’ll keep you posted about any exciting goings-on.
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Pompey Road Posted 8:37 am
04 Feb 2009
When you have stripped the nation of its manufacturing base the spin off jobs for this sector will go to China.
Construction, maybe but we have only one multi national company of the top 15 windmill fabricators, GE.
The same goes for the rest of the alternative energy sector. If it's new tech and they write some incentives in for new manufacturing for the U.S. we would create those promised green manufacturing jobs. Mr. Obama has already indicated that he won't support the democrats on this because it might violate WTO trade agreements.
China complains and the WTO backs down.
We can have tax incentives for taking production overseas but are in violation if we give tax incentives for manufacturing here.
The democrat proposal was for any country to manufacture here, very fair.
We were promised change, if we had wanted the same old trickle down, outsourcing, dump your environmental cost economics of the last 8 years we could have voted for McCain.
It is not only buy American where you can it will be build American if we are to reap any employment from tne green manufacturing sector.
Of course if you don't give China the jobs they won't loan us the money for the economic recovery plan. A classic catch 22 situation.
The train wreck the outsourcing, dump manufacturing, deregulating, trickle down crowd left us will cripple our efforts to create some good high pay green manufacturing jobs.
The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.
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