Green-Collar Partners

The Oakland Apollo Alliance is a coalition of labor unions, environmentalists, community-based organizations and green businesses, working together to create quality jobs in the new energy economy. The Oakland Apollo Alliance is anchored by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW Local 595). 

• Ian Kim and Emily Kirsch, Green-Collar Jobs Campaign at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (co-chair)
• Victor Uno, Business Manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 595 (co-chair)
• Carla Din, Western Regional Director of the National Apollo Alliance
• John Brauer, Executive Director of The Workforce Collaborative
• Andy Katz, East Bay Municipal Utility District Board member; Executive Committee member of the Sierra Club, Northern Alameda County Chapter
• Nicky Gonzalez Yuen, Trustee, Peralta Community College District Board
• Professor Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes, San Francisco State University, Urban Studies Department
• Bonnie Henriquez, Executive Director, Tradeswomen, Inc
• Brian Beveridge, Director, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

The East Bay Green Corridor Partnership is a collaboration of the mayors of four major East Bay cities (Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, and Richmond), plus UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The goal of the partnership is to guide green economic and workforce development to make the East Bay the "Silicon Valley of green technology." Green workforce development is a centerpiece of the initiative, and the Ella Baker Center serves on the Steering Committee of the Corridor's "East Bay Green Career Pathways" collaborative. We are working to help the Green Corridor initiative succeed, with a particular emphasis on green-collar jobs and green pathways out of poverty.

The California Apollo Alliance promotes the advancement of renewable energy and energy efficiency to drive investments into modern energy technologies, create high-quality jobs, revitalize underserved communities, and reduce dependence on foreign oil.

http://apolloalliance.org/state-local/california/ 

Coordinated by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in collaboration with the California Apollo Alliance, this coalition of environmental, labor, and community-based organizations is leading the charge in California to build a clean energy economy that creates family-supporting, green-collar jobs for all.  We work to:

• Promote economic prosperity in California that is environmentally sustainable
• Create quality green-collar jobs in large quantities
• Build pathways out of poverty and access to these jobs and careers, particularly for disadvantaged communities, dislocated workers, and veterans

Our work is currently focused on passing the Clean Technology and Renewable Energy Job Training, Career Education and Dropout Prevention Act, which would fight global warming and California’s growing high school dropout rate simultaneously through $2.25 billion in targeted investments in green career technical education and job training in middle schools, high schools, and community colleges.

Green For All believes a shift to a clean, green economy can improve the health and well-being of low-income people, who suffer disproportionately from cancer, asthma and other respiratory ailments in our current pollution-based economy.  Such a shift can also create and expand entrepreneurial, wealth-building opportunities for American workers who need new avenues of economic advance.

In other words: we believe that the national effort to curb global warming and oil dependence can simultaneously create well-paid green-collar jobs, safer streets and healthier communities.

Green For All
1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 600
Oakland, California   94612
(510) 663-6500

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The Apollo Alliance works to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs. Inspired by the Apollo space program, the Apollo Alliance promote investments in energy efficiency, clean power, mass transit, next-generation vehicles, and emerging technology, as well as in education and training.

The Apollo Alliance convenes a national coalition, and also supports several state-based and city-based "franchises." Each Apollo Alliance coalition always includes the "four legs of the table": labor, business, environmental, and community leaders. The Ella Baker Center's Green Collar Jobs Campaign co-anchors and staffs the Oakland Apollo Alliance, and serves on the steering committee of the California Apollo Alliance.

www.apolloalliance.org