Growing a Green Collar Workforce

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An environmentally sustainable New York City brings with it the prospect of economic benefits and good jobs: green collar jobs. For sustainability to generate widespread prosperity, a green collar job must be more than simply a job in an environmental field. Green collar jobs must provide family sustaining wages, safe working conditions, and chances for advancement.

Green collar jobs present a new paradigm for equitable economic development. They allow workers to contribute to the health of their communities. And because the bulk of green collar jobs in New York City would involve transitioning existing infrastructure to greater sustainability, they cannot easily be outsourced.

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Green Collar Jobs Roadmap

The Green Collar Jobs Roundtable is a multi-stakeholder campaign to mobilize the City to prepare New Yorkers for green collar jobs. Convened by Urban Agenda, the Roundtable brings together 170 partners from green employers, community-based organizations, labor unions, workforce development providers, and environmental and environmental justice groups, committed to creating good, green jobs in New York City — jobs that enhance or sustain the environment while offering family-supporting wages, benefits and opportunities for career advancement.

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NYC Apollo Alliance
 

Urban Agenda is convener of the NYC Apollo Alliance, a dynamic coalition of labor unions, environmental justice advocates, business leaders, community organizations, and educators. The NYC Apollo Alliance advocates public policies that maximize the economic development and job creation potential of greening New York City.

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Campaign for New York's Future

Urban Agenda is an active participant in the Campaign for New York's Future. The Campaign is a coalition of civic, business, environmental, labor, community and public health organizations that support the goals and strategic direction of PlaNYC 2030.

We endorse the Campaign’s goals to make every neighborhood in New York City a great place to live and work, and to contribute to fighting climate change. We support the coalition’s aim to encourage public debate — as well as fair and effective action — now and in the years to come.

Urban Agenda takes part in numerous campaign activities, such as the July 5th Rally for Congestion Pricing at Times Square, an important transportation and air quality initiative in PlaNYC.