Dec. 6: Green Jobs: Environmental Sustainability and Curbing Climate Change
What strategies can we use to revitalize our economy by preserving and transforming manufacturing sites into green sites with green jobs? As businesses and workers adjust to the changing global economy, green manufacturing has become an integral economic strategy for maintaining job security and creating new "green jobs" for the future. How can we provide businesses with incentives to create green jobs? How can we reduce our carbon footprint and rebuild the US manufacturing sector on a green path? We'll examine one case study from the automotive industry and have further discussion on green job initiatives.
Featured Speaker:
Lynn Hinkle, retired UAW 879 worker in St Paul, Minnesota; co-chair of Plug-in Electric Hybrid Vehicles Task Force, and writer of the green plant proposal of Twin Cities Assembly Plant (TCAP)
Background: Mr. Hinkle is a 30 year member and union official of UAW Local 879 at Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant, Lynn Hinkle helped negotiate key sustainable local contract provisions and lead the local's Green Conversion efforts with Ford. Lynn is Co-Chair of the Minnesota Legislated Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Task Force and is part of the steering committee for the Mayors' Green Manufacturing Initiative. He is co-Convener of Labor and Sustainability and the Ford Site Strategy Coalition working on a carbon offset mixed use redevelopment of the Ford Site that involves green manufacturing. Lynn was a main presenter at the Midwest Conference on Labor and the New Energy Economy in Cleveland in October and the North American Labor Assembly on Climate Crisis.
Additional speakers:
- Aaron Lehmer, Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Manager, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Nile Malloy, Freedom from Oil Campaigner, Rainforest Action Network
When: Thursday, December 6, 2007
Where: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, 344 40th Street, Oakland, CA 94609
Time: 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Come out to learn more about the challenges of and the potential for creating green jobs and revitalizing our communities.
Sponsored by Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Rainforest Action Network, Freedom From Oil Campaign.
Featured Speaker:
Lynn Hinkle, retired UAW 879 worker in St Paul, Minnesota; co-chair of Plug-in Electric Hybrid Vehicles Task Force, and writer of the green plant proposal of Twin Cities Assembly Plant (TCAP)
Background: Mr. Hinkle is a 30 year member and union official of UAW Local 879 at Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant, Lynn Hinkle helped negotiate key sustainable local contract provisions and lead the local's Green Conversion efforts with Ford. Lynn is Co-Chair of the Minnesota Legislated Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Task Force and is part of the steering committee for the Mayors' Green Manufacturing Initiative. He is co-Convener of Labor and Sustainability and the Ford Site Strategy Coalition working on a carbon offset mixed use redevelopment of the Ford Site that involves green manufacturing. Lynn was a main presenter at the Midwest Conference on Labor and the New Energy Economy in Cleveland in October and the North American Labor Assembly on Climate Crisis.
Additional speakers:
- Aaron Lehmer, Green-Collar Jobs Campaign Manager, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Nile Malloy, Freedom from Oil Campaigner, Rainforest Action Network
When: Thursday, December 6, 2007
Where: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, 344 40th Street, Oakland, CA 94609
Time: 6 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Come out to learn more about the challenges of and the potential for creating green jobs and revitalizing our communities.
Sponsored by Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Rainforest Action Network, Freedom From Oil Campaign.
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