Blue Green Alliance Teams with Gore to Create Green Jobs and Solve Climate Crisis

[Omaha Steve]

http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/04/07/blue-green-alliance-teams-with-gore-to-create-green-jobs-and-solve-climate-crisis/

by James Parks, Apr 7, 2008

The Blue Green Alliance (BGA), a strategic partnership between the United Steelworkers (USW) and the Sierra Club, has joined with the Alliance for Climate Protection, the nonprofit organization founded by former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, to take action to solve the climate crisis.

In a first-of-its-kind program, the BGA and USW will work jointly with the Alliance for Climate Protection to educate members about global warming and mobilize them to support solutions that promote economic prosperity for everyone. The member-to-member program will build a blue-collar constituency for global warming solutions, highlighting the opportunities for high-paying domestic jobs in renewable energy, clean technology and “green” manufacturing, while also explaining the environmental and economic risks associated with accelerating climate change.


http://www.wecansolveit.org/content/pages/78/

Last week, the Alliance for Climate Protection launched a multi-year, multi-faceted campaign designed to create a movement to address solutions to the climate crisis. The alliance’s three-year “We” campaign draws from the best practices of successful commercial, social marketing and political campaigns. The campaign’s first commercial hit the TV airwaves last week. (See video above).

Says USW President Leo Gerard:

We are looking towards a future—a very near future—in which good, high-paying American jobs will be created with the onset of a green economy. Developing, manufacturing, installing and maintaining new technologies to fuel our homes and businesses will create a whole new industry that will translate into millions of new jobs.

The United States is approaching a historic moment when thinking green will soon become our new “common sense”—and the norm in the business world, says BGA Executive Director David Foster.

We believe a renewable energy strategy can get our economy moving again and create a new generation of domestic manufacturing jobs while solving global warming. During World War II, we built more than 50 planes a day. We should be able to build a renewable energy plant a week to protect our environment, end our addiction to foreign oil and lead to new industries that will create thousands of real jobs. We look forward to bringing the voices of working Americans into this critical national discussion.

FULL story at link.