Labor & Employment Law

Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference: How to Build Sustainable Economy with Good Jobs

By James Parks

Thousands of labor, environmental, business and community representatives will discuss the best ways to build a sustainable economy that creates good green jobs across the country at the 2011 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference Feb. 8?10 in Washington, D.C.

 This conference has become the leading forum for sharing ideas and strategies to grow a green economy that creates good jobs, addresses global warming and other environmental problems and preserves America?s economic and environmental security.

Click here for the conference agenda and here for the workshop schedule.

The conference comes just two weeks after President Obama challenged the nation to win the clean energy jobs of the future. On Feb. 10, Green Jobs Advocacy Day, hundreds of green jobs advocates will head to Capitol Hill to speak with lawmakers about the necessary tools to build a green economy in the United States. For more information, click here.

Lisa Jackson, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood head a list of speakers that will include  Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality; U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.);  Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council and assistant to President Obama for economic policy; Jared Bernstein, chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden; Center for American Progress President John Podesta; and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker. 

 The Conference also will feature a fuel-efficient, union-made 2011 Chevrolet Volt on display Feb. 8. The Blue Green Alliance, the partnership of the union and environmental organizations, is coordinating the conference.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on February 07, 2011 (boomark / email).