By Erin Stojan, program coordinator, Fresh Energy

Achieving the IPCC-recommended 80 percent reduction of global warming pollution by 2050 is a tremendous task, but it’s fair to say the idea of creating opportunity out of this transition and giving communities left behind another chance at the American dream has taken the nation by storm. Last month, Green For All coordinated the recent “The Dream Reborn” conference in Memphis, attended by over 1,100 people from all over the nation, predominantly youth and people of color. Earlier in the month, the Blue Green Alliance, a project of the Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers, convened the Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Pittsburgh, and is already collecting names to convene next year’s follow-up conference. In addition, the cover of the most recent “Colorlines” magazine asks, fairly, who will gain from the new green economy?

Beyond the hype, what does it actually mean to create green jobs on the state and city level? That’s precisely the focus of two new reports released by the Apollo Alliance and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS). Kate Gordon, Program Director at the Apollo Alliance, and Sarah White, Senior Associate with the COWS, recently presented an online briefing featuring “Greener Pathways,” a state-level strategy analysis authored by COWS (full report (pdf) and executive summary (pdf)), and “Green-Collar Jobs in America’s Cities,” (pdf) authored by Apollo.

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