One of the things that the Green Jobs Bill (passed this summer) did was to create a new quasi-public entity. The Clean Energy Technology Center is designed to attract and create green industries, which includes seeding the required labor pipeline. The Center will fund several things: 

The new deadline for submission is January 29 at 12 noon.

This extension serves community based workforce development organizations well: good skills training programs are embedded in communities and include partnerships with employers, other training and education entities and the public workforce development system. To work these connections must be well-crafted and that takes time. MWA is pleased that EOEEA has extended the deadline.

 For those of you interested in looking at the RFR in detail, here's the link: http://www.mass.gov/Eoeea/docs/eea/grants/pathways_rfr.pdf

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The green jobs legislation that passed this summer holds great opportunity for development of skill training for green industry sectors. Programs across the Commonwealth know what it takes to create effective training. You know that effective training needs to include:

*a curricula geared to meet and exceed industry needs

*active partnerships with employers to ensure spot-on training, sequencing and accurate projections of job availability

*support for participants, including childcare and transportation, that enables participants to continue and complete training successfully

*basic education - math, reading, writing, English - as well as work-readiness prep

*links to other players in the workforce development system for outreach, assessment, recruitment and further training, as well as additional supports

Thank yous all around - to legislators and their staff, to advocates, to community leaders and members. Massachusetts has a green jobs bill!

And now we're ready to figure out how to create jobs in multiple green industry sectors, for MA residents with varying skills and in different communities across the state.

This is YOUR invitation to roll up your sleeves and think with others in your community, with employers and with skill training and education organizations. What will work where you are?? Build a local answer to these questions and share it with others. We have much to learn and we already know.

Comment here with your ideas, questions and concerns!

I was a panelist on a Green Jobs panel at the Massachusetts Democratic Convention a couple of weeks ago. I joined a carpenter who works with MA YouthBuild and a woman who works with JYF Networks, a program providing basic education and skill training. The Dems had a green focus this year bringing Van Jones (THE green collar jobs guy and co-founder of Green for All) to speak both at the convention and then as an opener in the afternoon for a series of workshops called the “Greenest Democrats in the Bluest State”. Hats off to convention organizers: what a way to open the conversation up about climate change and the growing green economy by highlighting it at the state convention.

In the space of two and a half weeks, I've been to two green jobs conferences: the Hudson Valley Community College Renewable Energy Conference in Troy, NY (https://www.hvcc.edu/energyconference/) and The Dream Reborn, Green for All's green jobs conference just held in Memphis, TN ( http://www.dreamreborn.org/).

It takes a lot of energy to attend conferences so I'm always concerned about what I'm learning and taking away. And, much as I'm a green-jobs-are-coming kind of gal, I've been very keen to see if others agree.

I'd say the answer is mixed and complex... I didn't hear about loads and loads of green jobs that are here now. I did hear energy, interest, enthusiasm and possibility all of which are important, but if we're talking about growing green jobs to address environmental and economic issues we need to figure out how to actually create some jobs!

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Anyone out there attend last week's Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference? This conference (http://www.greenjobsconference.org/site/c.rvI3IiNWJqE/b.3820537/) brought together labor, activists, policy makers and training providers to draw the big picture of green jobs. Those of you who attended, what did you learn?

Alex Risley Schroeder

Finding Earth Works

I'm headed to Troy, NY for a conference on renewable energy/ energy efficiency and workforce development. NY is making great strides in these areas - ahead of us, it seems. I'll post after the conference with tidbits from the conference.

In the meantime, what questions are out there about energy efficiency jobs in Massachusetts? Folks in Cambridge and Boston - what are you learning through the work of your Energy Alliances? Tell us about it some.

Alex Risley Schroeder

Finding Earth Works