Articles and Resources
Articles
- 10 Networking Resources Women Pursuing Green Careers Should Know About
- The Green Economy offers a chance for women to excel!
- Women and minorities getting left out of the green jobs market
- Small steps for women in a green economy
- Why the Most Productive Jobs of the Future Will Be Green Jobs
- Getting a Green Job In today's economy, green jobs are growing. Take advantage of this up-and-coming trend
- Clean Tech Job Trends 2009 Clean Edge, the Clean Tech Market Authority
- Alternate ideas for Green Jobs
- Grow Your Own CSA - An easy to understand starter’s guide to starting your own community supported agriculture plot.
- A New National Approach to Career Navigation for Working Learners
- Is The Green Jobs Movement Leaving Women Behind?
- Jobs Creation’s Winning Formula
Green Jobs Resources
- The Department of Labor Women’s Bureau is sponsoring a series of teleconferences designed to offer information and an exchange of ideas to help better connect women to green jobs training and green employment. Download the Teleconference Fact Sheets and PowerPoint slides HERE
- The Department of Labor and O*Net Resource Center are working to define and categorize Green Jobs. Read more about these efforts -
- U.S. Department of Labor Turning Green Jobs to Gold, Safely
- O*NET Resource Center O*NET is the nation's primary source of information containing hundreds of occupation-specific descriptors
- Apollo Alliance Working to catalyze a clean energy revolution that will put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs
- Business and Professional Women’s Foundation Green Jobs Page
- CollegeInColorado.org The free, comprehensive website dedicated to providing adults and students with everything they need to know about career exploration and planning
- Global Exchange’s Green Careers Are the Future slideshow
- Colorado’s Office of Labor and Employment The State of Colorado's resource for businesses and employment
- Connecting Colorado Many state workforce programs are only available to those signed up with Connecting Colorado. Sign up today!
- Denver’s Office of Economic Development Provides comprehensive services to help people find good jobs and start their own Metro Denver business
- Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics Going Green: Environmental Jobs for Scientists and Engineers
- e-Colorado.org Colorado's workforce development clearinghouse of resources for education, employment and business
- Fortune Magazine’s 2009 list of best companies for women
- Global Citizen’s Center Promoting environmental sustainability and social justice in a uniquely comprehensive manner – a virtual building
- Green for All A national organization working to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty
- Governor's Energy Office Green Jobs Resources Page
- Green Building Creates Green Jobs for a Green Economy – USGBC
- Green Jobs Training – A Quick Look
- Green Collar Jobs Report, published by the American Solar Energy Society, 2008
- Green Equity Toolkit Organizations can use the Green Equity Toolkit to work with local governments to build fairness and inclusion into all green project planning and spending
- Hard Hatted Women Empowering women to achieve economic independence by creating workplace diversity in trade and technical careers
- iCAST’s Chris Stoneman presented a compelling argument for why we need to promote women into green jobs. See the presentation slides HERE
- My Green Education and Career Information about education possibilities and job search sites
- Wider Opportunities for Women’s report: A Women’s Agenda for Job Creation
- Working Women’s list of Best Companies (including best companies, best companies for multicultural women and best green companies)
