Creating Green Jobs
The Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is a key resource to the Obama Administration’s “Green Jobs” initiative. The Green Jobs Act would support on-the-ground apprenticeship and job training programs to meet growing demand for green construction professionals skilled in energy efficiency and renewable energy installations. The Act envisions sound and practical energy investments for 3 million new jobs by helping companies retool and retrain workers to produce clean energy and energy efficient components or end products that will result in residential and commercial energy savings, industry revenue, and new green jobs throughout the country.
To better serve the workforce system and its efforts to support green jobs and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ETA has developed a draft green jobs framework for action. The framework identifies the foundational and operational elements required for serving the needs of the workforce system and its customers. It is designed to promote the development of new and existing green jobs, and hasten widespread employment in green careers across several industry sectors.
- http://www.americangreenjobs.net
- http://www.doleta.gov/business
- http://www.doleta.gov/usworkforce
- http://www.workforce3one.org/
- http://www.doleta.gov/oa/
(Source: The US Dept. of Labor Website)