Workday Magazine (https://workdaymagazine.org/category/environment/page/3/)
The Blue Green Alliance is sponsoring a public photo gallery that reveals how Minnesota union workers are leading the way in the green economy. The exhibit will have its grand opening Thursday, Jan. 14, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Common Roots Café, 2558 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis.
The Blue Green Alliance Foundation will receive a $5 million Energy Training Partnership Grant to train manufacturing workers for the good jobs being created in the clean energy economy, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Wednesday.
While expressing hope for an agreement at the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, the Blue Green Alliance said Congressional action is key to reaching a long-term, international plan to address the challenges facing the planet.
Hear polar explorer Will Steger give a video update from the United Nations Climate Change Conference and view a new film on the environmental crisis Saturday at the Minneapolis Central Library.
Twin Cities janitors and supporters will gather Saturday to launch a new contract campaign focusing on full-time, family-supporting jobs that also are good for the environment.
Environmental groups and industrial unions are leaning hard on Minnesota’s U.S. senators, pushing for vigorous, new renewable energy standards that, according to a new report, will revitalize the hard-hit manufacturing sector of the U.S. economy.
The Duluth labor movement is taking steps toward a greener future.
The Minnesota AFL-CIO will host workshops and showcase green building examples in the labor pavilion on the State Fairgrounds as part of this year’s Living Green Expo.
Darryl Thayer, a member of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 292 in Minneapolis, hardly received a visionary’s welcome when he addressed the Minnesota legislature in 1968 about the need to develop solar energy and wean the state from fossil fuel-based sources. Worse yet, says Thayer, many of his fellow workers “thought I was nuts.”
Union leaders, elected officials, scientists and others speak out on the global environmental crisis and how we can and must change course in the documentary film “11th Hour,” created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.