Southern California Green Workforce Resources

What are some of the organizations that deal in Green Workforce initiatives? Also are there any good websites which have interesting Green workforce policy information and statistics?

KCPB Raising Green Growth Fund

http://www.pewnews.com/story.asp?sectioncode=36&storycode=44384

Interesting Article regarding Al Gore and Kleiner Perkins raising a $400MM Green Fund.

Great Article in Fast Company

Great Article in Fast Company regarding Van Jones, who is bringing Green-Collar jobs to California.

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/125/im-bad-im-slick.html

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2007/05/25/green_jobs_good_jobs_on_the_way.php

Green Workforce Links and Resources (So. California-Focused)

I recently attended a South Los Angeles Green Workforce conference. After looking doing some research, I found some of the following relevant links:

Cleveland Rocks New Energy Economy

 

 

 

 

Informative Websites

http://www.apolloalliance.org/resources.php

http://www.apolloalliance.org/downloads/greencollarjobs.pdf

http://www.stateofgreenbusiness.com/files/StateOfGreenBusiness2008.pdf

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/2/19/155825/434?source=biz

http://scoperesearch.blogspot.com/search/label/green%20jobs

http://www.greenforall.org/resources

Some LA Area Green Jobs Events:

http://events.entretech.org/com/event/oid/59/t/1/o/events

http://www.cacleaninnovation.com/fast_pitch.html

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