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Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:57 PM

Apollo Alliance

Type: Organization

Name: Apollo Alliance

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Green jobs: women and minorities left out?

Green jobs don’t have to leave out women and minorities, according to a case study released by the Applied Research Center today. The report, by senior research associate Yvonne Yen Liu, profiled the work of the community organization Strategic Concepts ... [Greenspace - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Apollo Alliance, Los Angeles, Education

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Phil Angelides: Topic #1 for the Upcoming White House Jobs Summit: How to Keep Clean Energy Jobs Here at Home

In times like these, with unemployment at its highest rate in more than a quarter century, President Obama's announcement that the White House will hold a jobs summit in December is welcome news. The nation's focus must be on the critical issue ... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Phil Angelides, United States, Unemployment, China, Apollo Alliance

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Obama's Civilian Army Takes Mighty Scary Turn: Recruiting Military for "green" war

More disturbing developments in the creation of Obama's brown green shirts. The T he Apollo Alliance is recruiting for a "green" army:You'll recall the Apollo Alliance claims to have written the Cap & Trade legislation as well as the Stimulus Bill; this ... [Atlas Shrugs - 11/17/2009]

Entities: Military/Armed Forces, Apollo Alliance, Van Jones, Mark Fischer

First Reported 10/24/2009 - Updated 10/24/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

'Green' student job fair today

The New Orleans office of the environmental nonprofit Global Green is hosting a job fair today for local high school students to provide information about the burgeoning 'green' economy. More than 40 representatives of local nonprofit groups, educational ... [NOLA Live - 10/24/2009]

Entities: Environment, Apollo Alliance, Greenhouse Gas Reduction, Environmental Science

First Reported 10/24/2009 - Updated 10/24/2009 - 1 Documents

Sherrod Brown

Making It in America: Building the New Economy

Every day you can ingest a dozen or two stories about this or that statistic, this or that indicator about the current trajectory of the economy. You can bury yourself in past and current data and diverging interpretations of that data and emerge with ... [Daily Kos - 10/24/2009]

Entities: Sherrod Brown, Jeff Madrick, Robert Kuttner, Harold Meyerson, The New School

First Reported 10/26/2009 - Updated 10/26/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

About Those Green Jobs…

In early October the federal government released its monthlyemployment statistics. The numbers were stunningly dismal.According to the Labor Department, the economy lost 263,000 jobsin September, and unemployment ratcheted up to nearly 10 percent.The ... [American Spectator - 10/26/2009]

Entities: Apollo Alliance, Las Vegas (Nevada, United States), Center For American Progress, Unemployment

First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 1 Documents

Harry Reid

Midday Open Thread

Eleven yesterday, eight today, 55 this month: Eight U.S. troops are killed in bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said, in one of the deadliest weeks for U.S. troops ahead of a presidential run-off. Several troops were also ... [Daily Kos - 10/27/2009]

Entities: Randall Terry, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, United States, Matthew Hoh

First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 1 Documents

Commentary: Green jobs can help low-income communities

When my grandfather came to St. Louis after World War II, the American economy was undergoing radical change. The Depression was still recent, and the war economy was transitioning into a peacetime, manufacturing-based economy.My grandfather got a job ... [STLtoday.com - 10/27/2009]

Entities: Apollo Alliance, Los Angeles, Riverview (Missouri, United States)

First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 1 Documents

Big Growing Pains and Potential for $5B Weatherization Program

Next month, a new class of a dozen or more men and women will begin training in Long Island City, N.Y., to become home weatherization technicians. They are early recruits in a small army of workers being deployed in places around the country where there ... [New York Times - 11/09/2009]

Entities: Potential, Dave Johnson, Apollo Alliance, Labor Unions, Government Accountability Office

First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 1 Documents

Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance

A healthy and high-tech green collar economy has been a great promise of the Obama administration. On the front lines of the fight to create green jobs and spur the economy is the Apollo Alliance, an amalgam of labor, business, and environmental groups. ... [Treehugger - 11/12/2009]

Entities: Jerome Ringo, Apollo Alliance, Amalgam, Van Jones

First Reported 11/12/2009 - Updated 11/12/2009 - 1 Documents (in Environment)

Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance

Entities: Jerome Ringo, Apollo Alliance, Photovoltaic, Glenn Beck, Environment

First Reported 06/16/2009 - Updated 06/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Politics)

Environmental movement, unions come together for healthy planet, workers' rights

Original source: AFL-CIO NowIn a great piece of the latest issue of Grist, Kate Sheppard looks at the ways the union and environmental movements are working together to make sure the emerging energy economy is sustainable and fair to everyone.Sheppard ... [Peoples Weekly World - 06/16/2009]

Entities: Labor Unions, Environment, Sierra Club

Quotes

...Deb notes, " Since our veterans are already trained, I'm assuming they will be training civilians to control belligerent citizens, etc" . “We think veterans are uniquely qualified to lead the environmental restoration here at home,” said Kirsten Maynard of Veterans Green Jobs...

Obama's Civilian Army Takes Mighty Scary Turn: Recruiting Military for "green" war [Atlas Shrugs - 11/17/2009]

"With such a huge influx of money, there have been some challenges in scaling up" said Matthew Mayrl, policy director with the Apollo Alliance, a San Francisco-based green energy advocacy group

Big Growing Pains and Potential for $5B Weatherization Program [New York Times - 11/09/2009]

...Several troops were also wounded in "multiple complex (bomb) attacks, just a day after 11 U S troops died in separate helicopter crashes. Alan Grayson (D-FL) calls a female lobbyist a "K Street Whore," which was either a blatantly sexist and offensive remark, or the same way one would describe a male lobbyist -- you make the call. Now that Max Baucus (D-MT) has done his bit for health care reform, he turns his attention to climate change legislation. He doesn't like that either. Arlen Specter (D-PA) tweets to the left: Just as we were finally able to pass hate crimes legislation, it s time to defeat the Defense of Marriage Act. Is it possible that Roy Blunt (R-MO) will be the next Republican who is just too darn moderate for the teabaggers? There's a joke in here somewhere: An intriguing nugget from this week’s Pew survey of which stories were deemed the most newsworthy by the big news orgs: The No. 4 story (at 5%) was the growing swine outbreak in the U S and the scramble for scarce vaccine. And a media outlet itself was a central player in the fifth-biggest story last week. The intensifying confrontation between the White House and the Fox News Channel accounted for 5% of the newshole. George W Bush as a motivational speaker ? Well, if you can win a prize ... In his latest attempt to drive attention to his hate-filled agenda, Terry has launched a contest to encourage people to make videos burning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in effigy. Randall TerryTerry s press release states: Join a Contest! Win Prizes! Who Can make the best “Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid BURN IN HELL!” video? If 6 out of 10 Americans support it , you can bet the GOP opposes it. If you're in the DC area on Thursday, you really ought to check out the Campaign For America's Future's Making It In America conference , which is being held from 9.30-3.30 at the Washington Court Hotel. The free event, which focuses on the need to build a clean, green, 21st-century American economy focused on the needs of working Americans, boasts an impressive speaker list -- including Sherrod Brown, Ed Rendell, Kate Gordon of the Apollo Alliance, Rich Trumka, and Leo Gerard of the Steelworkers. And rumor has it that Meteor Blades himself might even be in attendance. Go! --Jake McIntyre The first of many ? But last month, in a move that has sent ripples all the way to the White House, [Matthew Hoh, 36, became the first U S official known to resign in protest over the Afghan war, which he had come to believe simply fueled the insurgency. "I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States' presence in Afghanistan," he wrote Sept. 10 in a four-page letter to the department's head of personnel. "I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end." "

Midday Open Thread [Daily Kos - 10/27/2009]

More Content

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A Radioactive Third Rail Article [Canada Free Press - 11/13/2009]
Big Growing Pains and Potential for $5B Weather... [New York Times - 11/09/2009]
Weatherizing Portland [Grist Magazine - 11/02/2009]
Commentary: Green jobs can help low-income comm... [STLtoday.com - 10/27/2009]
About Those Green Jobs… [American Spectator - 10/26/2009]
'Green' student job fair today [NOLA Live - 10/24/2009]
At the Bioneers Conference, Living Building Cha... [Reuters - 10/22/2009]
At the Bioneers Conference, Living Building Cha... [Greener Buildings - 10/22/2009]
Michigan needs clean energy manufacturing jobs [Detroit News - 10/17/2009]
U.S. Business Coalition Endorses ?Green? Manufa... [Environmental Leader - 10/15/2009]
Awakening the sleeping giant [News and Sentinel - 09/27/2009]
Groups condemn attacks on Van Jones, green jobs... [Peoples Weekly World - 09/09/2009]
Enviros Ponder Implications of Jones Ouster [The Washington Independent - 09/08/2009]
The Glenn Beck Effect [The Washington Independent - 08/28/2009]
Ohio Green Workforce Training Partnership Award... [Stockwatch - 08/14/2009]
Still a giant leap for mankind [The Hindu - 07/19/2009]
Climate bill moves to Senate [Peoples Weekly World - 07/01/2009]
'Astonishing' speed and breadth of pww.org [Peoples Weekly World - 06/24/2009]
Oregon workers fight unemployment, cutbacks [Peoples Weekly World - 06/22/2009]
US Senator Introduces Bill to Help Manufacturer... [Renewable Energy World - 06/18/2009]
Proposal could help makers of auto parts [Canton Repository - 06/18/2009]
Environmental movement, unions come together fo... [Peoples Weekly World - 06/16/2009]
Sen. Sherrod Brown at labor meet: 'New energy e... [Peoples Weekly World - 05/21/2009]
Confronting Big Oil [Peoples Weekly World - 05/13/2009]
Apollo Alliance Releases Action Plan for Retool... [Business & Sustainable Development News - 04/20/2009]

Blogs

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Green jobs: women and minorities left out? [Greenspace - 11/19/2009] Green jobs don’t have to leave out women and minorities, according to a case study released by the Applied Research Center today. The report, by senior research ...
Women and minorities often left out of green jo... [Greenspace - 11/19/2009] Green jobs don’t have to leave out women and minorities, according to a case study released by the Applied Research Center today. The report, by senior research ...
Obama's Civilian Army Takes Mighty Scary Turn: ... [Atlas Shrugs - 11/17/2009] More disturbing developments in the creation of Obama's brown green shirts. The T he Apollo Alliance is recruiting for a "green" army:You'll recall the Apollo Alliance ...
Phil Angelides: Topic #1 for the Upcoming White... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/16/2009] In times like these, with unemployment at its highest rate in more than a quarter century, President Obama's announcement that the White House will hold ...
Jerome Ringo, President of the Apollo Alliance [Treehugger - 11/12/2009] A healthy and high-tech green collar economy has been a great promise of the Obama administration. On the front lines of the fight to create green jobs and spur ...

Audio/Video

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Praise for Rep. Doggett's Climate MATTERS Act [Rep. Lloyd Doggett - YouTube Channel - 10/08/2008]

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