Green-Collar Jobs Campaign News
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SF StreetsBlog (August 10, 2010) — The fight against Proposition 23 got testy today as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom called out Valero and Tesoro, the Texas oil companies spending the lion's share of the money for Prop 23.
Mothers Nature Network (March 26, 2010) — Emily Kirsch leads California students in cheer for green jobs at the first annual Green Career Exploration Fair.
KPFA (March 25, 2010) — Ian Kim discusses the impact of Oakland's Energy and Action Plan and the recommendations put forth by the Oakland Climate Action Coalition.
San Francisco Chronicle (November 22, 2009) — Jobs that not only help save the planet but usher individuals and neighborhoods out of poverty - talk about a silver bullet. If the promise of green jobs sounds too good to be true, the simplicity of the logic is difficult to resist: Train and hire people who are economically marginalized in work that is critical but has been neglected.
The Oakland Tribune (June 22, 2009) — Forty men and women graduated from a nine-month job-training program Monday afternoon, marking the end of the inaugural class of the Oakland Green Jobs Corps, which attempts to lift people out of poverty, dead-end jobs or unemployment by giving them training to work in the fields of solar, green construction and energy efficiency.
GreenBiz (March 17, 2009) — Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has created the California Green Corps, a program to train at-risk young people for technical, construction and other skilled jobs in eco-friendly industries that are expected to help fuel economic recovery. Ian Kim, director of the Green Collar Jobs Campaign is featured in the story.
SFGate (February 17, 2009) — Ian Kim, Director of The Green Collar Jobs Campaign of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights has a Q&A with Cameron Scott of the San Francisco Chronicle regarding Green Jobs and Oakland's pioneering role in creating new green opportunities for all of it's residents.
The Oakland Tribune (October 20, 2008) — Politicians joined leaders of the community at the historic unveiling of the Oakland Green Jobs Corps, a new job-creation program officials are hoping to grow in Oakland and, potentially, across the United States.
The Nation (October 8, 2008) — In the past two weeks, a lot has happened on the green jobs front. While Congress continues to battle over federal tax credits for renewable energy, green economy workers and activists came together for a National Day of Action. Emily Kirsch of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights explains how green jobs can save our planet and save lives as well.
San Fransisco Bay Guardian (April 30, 2008) — With so much talk and excitement around a booming green economy and it's various employment opportunities.The San Fransisco Bay Guardian looks at how effective job training programs will need to be in order for green collar jobs to serve as pathways out of poverty. Ian Kim, director of the Green Collar Jobs Campaign of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is featured in this story.
San Francisco Chronicle (March 16, 2008) — The San Francisco Bay Area is an innovative locus of green jobs, whose opportunities range in qualifications from science degrees to tech school degrees to liberal arts degrees. A UC Berkeley counselor and Ian Kim shed some light on the subject.
KPIX (January 22, 2008) — Oakland's Green-Collar Jobs funding and the Richmond training program explicitly surfaced in the Democratic primary debates. KPIX covers this statement and explores how it plays out in the political spectrum. The footage includes interviews from Nwamaka Agbo and Aaron Lehmer.
San Jose Mercury News (January 15, 2008) — In addition to its other benefits - fighting global warming, reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil - green tech could mean lots of jobs for Californians, including those in the state's poorest communities, said a parade of California political leaders, including Newsom, Brown, Schwarzenegger, and Van Jones.
KPFA (January 11, 2008) — Nwamaka Agbo and Aaron Lehmer explain the solutions that the Green Collar Jobs Campaign offers communities. They also cover our recent "Green Cities Brown Folks" event and the pressing need for groups seeking social justice to work in coalition.
theWIP.net (January 2, 2008) — Amid the "hot and sexy" green rush, grassroots groups want to ensure that the plans engage marginal communities, where both people and the environment suffer systemic exploitation and neglect. From downtown Oakland to the South Bronx, activists are adding green jobs training and urban food supply solutions to the eco-elites' runway.
Tell Me More from NPR (December 26, 2007) — NPR News aired an interview with Jakada Imani on green-collar jobs initiatives and community dynamics. An excerpt: "As you take predominantly African-American and Latino communities and you break them up by adding what often ends up as white newcomers, you shift the voting demographic, you shift the stores and what is available around, and you completely change the 'complexion' of the community. By lifting up the folks in the community and provide better economic opportunities, we can create mixed-income communities in a very different way..."
KQED (December 17, 2007) — Jakada Imani focuses on urban futures amidst the presidential campaign, addressing the question, "What is the 'urban agenda?'" For the full forum discussion, follow the title link.
Alameda Times-Star (December 5, 2007) — A plan to make Oakland a center of "green-collar" jobs — endorsed with $250,000 by the City Council last summer — came closer to fruition this week when the group spearheading the effort produced an inventory of 126 green businesses willing to participate.
Now, businesses ranging from Blue Sky Bio-fuels of Oakland to Solar City in Foster City to Dan Antonioli Construction, an Oakland contractor using ecologically sound building practices, have said they will hire people trained in "job readiness" skills and will provide specific on-the-job training in their fields.
Gambit Weekly (December 4, 2007) — A few American notables (including Ella Baker Center's Aaron Lehmer) respond to the question: How far have we come since Kyoto and what needs to be done next?
Green Seed Radio (December 1, 2007) — As the specifics of green-collar jobs plans come together, Aaron Lehmer decribes the face of a green job, tells how they fit into communities, and talks about the origins of environmental justice.
Oakland Tribune (November 16, 2007) — What happens when brown and green are mixed? A cleaner city and better living for low-income communities, according to the folks who gathered Wednesday for a "Green Cities, Brown Folks" mini-summit.
The Ella Baker Center, which organized the "solutions salon," packed the Lake Merritt United Methodist Church on Lakeshore with young and old who came to hear about "fighting both poverty and pollution at the same time."
The Kojo Nnamdi Show (November 5, 2007) — All the subjects are here:, local and national green job implementation, climate change, food supply, global economics, urban employment, eco-elitism. Van Jones and Kojo discuss environmental justice at length and interact with radio callers.
Inside Bay Area (June 29, 2007) — Part of the "Energy Independence Day" plan rolled out Thursday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was inspired by an Oakland pilot project that trains workers for jobs in renewable energy and energy-efficiency industries.
H.R. 2847, the Green Jobs Act of 2007, is modeled on the Green Jobs Corps created under the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights' Reclaim the Future initiative.
Living On Earth, National Public Radio (June 3, 2005) — Oakland, California is a major port for the country's commerce, and the people who live in the area bear the brunt of the resulting pollution, from idling diesel trucks to smokestack factories. Community leader Van Jones is working to clean up the city, and at the same, give its poorer neighborhoods jobs. He takes host Steve Curwood on a tour of an abandoned lot in West Oakland, which he sees as a success story.
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