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The Apollo Alliance's new guide, “Green-Collar Jobs in America's Cities,” was made public at the start of the two-day national Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Pittsburgh.
March 13, 2008
By KEITH SCHNEIDER
Apollo News Service
PITTSBURGH, Pa. – A coalition of non-profit environmental and economic research organizations from across the country today released a first-of-its kind guide to cities to enhance one critical component of America’s shared prosperity: Training and employing people for the higher wage, family-supporting careers in the new clean, green, energy efficient job sectors.
The new guide, “Green-Collar Jobs in America's Cities,” was accompanied by a similar study and plan of action for state policy makers, “Greener Pathways.” Both were made public today at the start of the two-day national Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference in Pittsburgh.
The city and state guides recognize that with gathering momentum, many of the America's largest cities and metropolitan regions are defying national trends in housing foreclosures, unemployment, and income stagnation, and instead have become new engines of job growth and prosperity. Underlying this remarkable transformation in the well-being of cities is an entirely new economic development strategy that is firmly based on being more efficient in using energy, being more sensitive to natural resources, more thoughtful about housing and transportation, and much smarter about developing businesses and jobs that meet the environmental conditions and market needs of the 21st century.
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