Need a Green Job? Check Out Free Guide, Weekend Events
Looking for a real job, one that not only pays you but pays dividends for the planet as well? Well, if you’re in California, or open to moving there, a free “Green Jobs Guidebook” becomes available online tomorrow.
Developed by the Environmental Defense Fund in partnership with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, the electronic guidebook can be downloaded here starting Sept. 25.
And if you’re looking to publicly advocate for the creation of more green jobs, why not join the Ella Baker Center’s Saturday, Sept. 27, Green Jobs Now! rally and concert? The event, part of the center’s Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, is scheduled for 1 to 4 p.m. at Mosswood Park in Oakland.
The Green-Collar Jobs Campaign is working to create “opportunities in the green economy for low-income people and people of color.” As the center’s Website says, “The path to peaceful streets and true community safety is not more prisons, but ecologically sound economic development.”
In the short term, the campaign is working to create good, living-wage, green-collar jobs in the city of Oakland. Over the long term, though, its goal is to establish both state and federal ” ‘Green Workforce Development Acts,’ ensuring ‘Silicon Valleys of green capital’ in struggling communities nationwide.”
Oakland isn’t the only place that will be rallying for the green-jobs economy this Saturday. You can find events taking place near you at the Green Jobs Now National Day of Action Website.
