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Is The Green Jobs Movement Leaving Women Behind?

By claire-morgenstern on March 9, 2010 2 Comments African-American, agriculture, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Apollo Alliance, Applied Research Center, BEST Academy, biofuels, C. Nicole Mason, construction, electrical engineers, energy, energy retrofitting, forestry, gender equality, green building, Green Career Ladder, green collar workforce, Green Equity Toolkit, Green for All, Green Job Market, green jobs, green jobs training, Green Pathways out of Poverty, Green Retrofit and Workforce Program, green—bioengineering, labor segmentation, Latino women, metal workers, people of color, race equality, Retrofit America’s Cities, SCOPE, Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education, Sustainable South Bronx, transportation, U.N., women, Women of Color Policy Network

While women are more eco aware than men, they are are underrepresented in green jobs. This includes jobs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. However, there are a growing number of programs that are designed to address these inequities.

Sustainable Business Releases The State of Green Investing 2009

By Tracey de Morsella on April 23, 2009 4 Comments American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, Apollo Alliance, Baldor Electric, BEZ, clean energy, clean energy projects, clean transportation, cleantech indexes, cleantech industry, Cleantech Stimulus, climate model projections, Credit, DB Climate Change Advisors, Deutsche Bank, efficiency, Elena Foshay, energy efficient buildings, EnerNoc, ENOC, ETFs, First Solar, FSLR, GAM.MC, Gamesa, Geothermal, Germany, Green building stocks, green investment trends, green investors, green mutual funds, Green Stock, Green venture capital, Green venture capital firms, greenhouse gas, IBM, ICF, ICFI, institutional investors, International, ITRI), Itron, New Energy Finance, New Power Portfolio, Northwest Pipe, NWPX. State of Green Investing 2009, OC, ORA, Ormat, Owens Corning, Patrick McVeigh, PBW, Powershares WilderHill Clean Energy ETF, Progressive Investor, renewable energy, Reynders McVeigh Capital Management, Rob Wilder, Sam Jones, smart grid, solar;, SPWR, stock market, SunPower, sustainability, SustainableBusiness, TetraTech, The Green Investment Landscape, TTEK, US, Utility scale projects, Vestas, VWS.CO, WaterFurnace, WFI.TO, wind

The Report can be purchased as part of a subscription to Progressive Investor or separately for $89. Progressive Investor is a monthly newsletter that guides investors and analysts toward green investments. Published by SustainableBusiness.com, it covers all green business sectors, including renewable energy, green building and healthy lifestyle. You can read an excerpt of the Report on SustainableBusiness.com. It is an in-depth interview with Patrick McVeigh, president of Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, a green/social portfolio management firm. Progressive Investor talked with him about his impression of market conditions, the impact of the stimulus plan on cleantech, and how they are managing porfolios under these circumstances. You can also read the sample article, The Green Investment Landscape.

Vice President Joe Biden Convenes First Middle Class Task Force Meeting on Green Jobs

By Tracey de Morsella on February 28, 2009 Comments Off on Vice President Joe Biden Convenes First Middle Class Task Force Meeting on Green Jobs AFL-CIO, Apollo Alliance, Bill Clinton, Blue Green Alliance, Center for American Progress, Duke University Center on Globalization, energy, Environmental Defense Fund, Governance and Competitiveness, green collar economy, green collar jobs, Green for All, green jobs, Green Jobs scorecard, Hilda Solis, Joe Biden, John Podesta, Leo Gerard, middle class families, Obama, organized labor, Pat Eiding, Philadelphia, power grid, President's Council of Economic Advisers, Recovery Act Implementation, Tom Vilsak, United Steelworkers of America, University of Pennsylvania, van jones, weatherizing, White House Task Force on Middle Class Families

Creating green jobs is the first order of business for the White House Task Force on Middle Class Families. Led by Vice President Joe Biden, the Task Force held its inaugural meeting on Friday in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania. “At a time when good jobs and good wages are harder and harder to […]