WORKFORCE EDUCATION & TRAINING for the New Energy Economy

• Report says green economy producing jobs, but urges work quality improvement -- March 17, 2011
• Clean Energy Corps: Building Pathways out of Poverty and Careers in the Clean Energy Economy  
   - Report by Green For All, Center on Wisconsin Strategy, Center on Economic and Policy Research, and Center for American Progress Action Fund

3 reports from the California Community Colleges Centers of Excellence:

• UNDERSTANDING THE GREEN ECONOMY IN CALIFORNIA: A Community College Perspective
  - June 2009
• ENERGY EFFICIENCY OCCUPATIONS: Bay Region  - March, 2009
• Environmental Scan - SOLAR INDUSTRY: San Francisco Bay and Greater Silicon Valley Regions - April 2008

• California Green Innovation Index
  - the 2009 California Green Innovation Index, is a new report produced by Next 10 and authored by Collaborative Economics that documents the powerful economic stimulus provided by energy efficiency and green technology in California, despite the worldwide financial crisis. The Index provides a deep analysis of key economic and environmental indicators that will help us better understand the role green innovation plays in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while strengthening the economy

• Green Collar Jobs in America's Cities: Jobs, Service and Equal Opportunity in America's Clean Energy Economy  - Report by the Apollo Alliance and Green For All, with the Center for American Progress and Center on Wisconsin Strategy

• Manufacturing Climate Solutions:Carbon-Reducing Technologies and U.S. Jobs  - by Gary Gereffi, Kristen Dubay and Marcy Lowe Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness, Duke University NOVEMBER 2008
  
• Workforce Investment Act Overview - Here is a list of the services provided by the typical ONE-STOP CENTERS established under the Workforce investment Act

• Green Jobs Guidebook -Green for ALL
  - This guide provides: Profiles of 200 green jobs currently in California; Details on 45 job types for high school grads, many paying over $25 per hour; Information on job training and placement programs Listings of valuable apprenticeship programs.
  

• Workforce Development Needs of the Energy Efficiency Industry Survey Results from Washington and Oregon 
  - Report prepared by: Northwest Energy Efficiency Council
• Greener pathways: jobs and workforce development in the clean energy economy
  - A report by Sarah White & Jason Walsh
  Center on Wisconsin Strategy , The Workforce Alliance, and The Apollo Alliance

• Green Collar Jobs Report
  - An Analysis of the Capacity of Green Businesses to Provide High Quality Jobs for Men and Women with Barriers to Employment (executive summary) by: Raquel Pinderhughes, Ph.D. Professor of Urban Studies, San Francisco State University
• WORKFORCE TRENDS IN THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY
  A REPORT TO THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS

• Jobs in Energy Efficiency & the Building Trades
  - Apollo Alliance one-pager on specific jobs in the energy efficiency field(s)
• "THE WORK THAT GOES INTO RENEWABLE ENERGY"
  -Report by the Renewable Energy Policy Project of the work that goes into Renewable Energy development by skill type and occupational category

• Green Jobs Created by Global Warming Initiatives
  - Testimony by Dan Kammen to the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (September 25, 2007 Hearing)
• State of GREEN Business2008
  -New report by by Joel Makower and the editors of Greenbiz.com
• State of GREEN Business2008
  - New report by by Joel Makower and the editors of Greenbiz.com

• ASES Green Jobs Report
  Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century
  -American Solar Energy Society

• Gaps in the Energy Workforce Pipeline
  - Survey that looks at workforce needs in the electric and natural gas industries and projected upcoming shortfalls
   - Read more
   - Download a PDF of the executive summary
   - Visit the website of the Center for Energy Workforce Development
• Power Magazine Workforce Management
  – Generation Next: Strategies For Recruiting Younger Workers

Reports prepared or commissioned by Los Angeles Trade-Technical College:

• Clean technology workforce challenges and opportunities
  -Report presented to the Los Angeles/Orange County Regional Consortium & Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. BW Research. February, 2008.
• The strategic opportunity to build a green workforce in Los Angeles
  -Report from the Regional Economic Development Institute at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. February, 2008  
• More reports and presentations  prepared or commissioned by Los Angeles Trade-Technical College

• LA Infrastructure and Sustainable Jobs
  Collaborative