Blue-Green Alliance

Green +Blue = Powerful Alliance

Sierra Club, organized labor agree and argue as potential alliance struggles to be born from The Planet. By John Byrne Barry "The oft-repeated saw that environmentalists and workers are in opposing camps is becoming increasingly outdated." A series of articles that appeared in the May 2002 issue of The Planet examine a growing positive relationship between labor unions and the environmental movement. You can see the articles here.

Sierra Club, organized labor agree and argue as potential alliance struggles to be born from The Planet.
By John Byrne Barry

Blue-Green Alliance Promotes Jobs, Clean Energy

From the Sierra Club Insider

A new study released by the Sierra Club, the United Steelworkers, SEIU and other labor and environmental advocates shows that a clean energy policy would create 1.4 million new American jobs while saving consumers an average of $1,275 on their energy bills in 2025.

The report, "Smarter, Cleaner, Stronger: Secure Jobs, a Clean Environment, and Less Foreign Oil" by Redefining Progress, an Oakland, California-based think tank, promotes investment in clean and renewable energy technologies, and stands in stark contrast to the Bush administration's energy plan, which embraces increasing oil dependence and ignores global warming. The report details job gains nationally and on state-by-state. For example, Ohio would gain 65,000 new jobs in the manufacturing and service sectors in the next two decades.

Check out your state's potential job gains.

Green-Collar Workers

From Sierra Magazine. July 2003.

Debating issues from arctic drilling to fuel economy, labor and environmentalists are often at odds.
But a bold new plan could help reconcile the differences.
By Jim Young