Reports & Research
Our hit list of policies, programs and research related to green-collar jobs from around the country.
Our hit list of reports and research related to green-collar jobs. If you know of something that should be listed here, please contact us.
Bridging the Equity Gap: Driving Community Health Outcomes Through the Green Jobs Movement
In Bridging the Equity Gap: Driving Community Health Outcomes Through the Green Jobs Movement, Green For All makes the case that the Green Jobs Movement can bring about a systems change to improve economic, environmental and health conditions for low-income communities.
Expanding Opportunity: Employing the Formerly Incarcerated in the Green Economy
This reports provides information to enable efficient and equitable hiring of people with criminal records using Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP) funds.
Increasing Demand for Home Retrofits: Community-Based Outreach and Mobilization
This best practice brief outlines the benefits of and strategies behind using community-based outreach and mobilization to generate demand for home energy retrofits.
Green Speak: A Glossary of Terms used in Green Business
This glossary provides useful definitions for many of the terminology and buzzwords frequently used within the green industry. This guide serves as an introductory resource for anyone new to the intersection of sustainability and social justice, as well as for those who lack an exhaustive understanding of commonly used jargon.
Where To Get the Green: Sources of Funds for Green Entrepreneurs
Many people struggle to figure out how they can obtain the capital required to start and/or scale a business. This guide may not offer all of the answers, but it does provide helpful insights into a wide variety of financing options available to aspiring entrepreneurs as well as existing small business owners.
10 Green Business Ideas for New Entrepreneurs
Many people see solar panels and wind turbines, and wonder how they are supposed to engage the green business economy. This guide outlines ten accessible business ideas that can be pursued by just about anyone, including those that are capital constrained.
Going Green: A Guide to Greening Your Business
This guide is for the small business owner who is interested in reducing the environmental footprint of his/her company's operations, and provides specific recommendations and resources for those who want to go green -- and save money by doing so.
The Green Business Plan Guide
While there is an abundance of resources focused on how to write a business plan, virtually none of the publications that exist today detail how to include environmental and social justice concerns. This guide attempts to explain how someone focused on the triple bottom line -- profit, planet, and people -- goes about writing a business plan for a truly green business.
Greener Skills: How Credentials Create Value in the Clean Energy Economy
Even as this report delineates prominent national credentials in selected clean energy sectors, its purpose is larger: to suggest a more rational framework for human capital development in a greening economy.
An Industry at the Crossroads: Energy Efficiency Employment in Massachusetts
The United states building energy efficiency market is projected to double in size over the next 20 years. Massachusetts, a national leader in this field, has already earmarked $1.4 billion to create thousands of jobs in the construction sector retrofitting more than 100,000 residential units and 20,000 commercial and municipal structures over the next three years.
Clean Energy Works Portland Report
Green For All's report details why Clean Energy Works Portland has such special appeal. The program includes a revolving loan fund with innovative "on-bill financing" and a Community Workforce Agreement that creates jobs in the communities that need them most.
Understanding the Weatherization Assistance Program
This document offers a basic understanding of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Weatherization Assistance Program and guidance on how to produce the best results possible.
Understanding the State Energy Program - from Green For All
This document offers a basic understanding of the U.S. Department of Energy’s State Energy Program and guidance on how to produce the best results possible.
Construction Apprenticeship Programs: Career Training for California's Recovery
The Center on Policy Initiatives has released a report linking quality apprenticeship programs in the building trades to the future of California's green economy and economic recovery. The report demonstrates that apprenticeship training is most effective when run collaboratively by labor and management.
Understanding the Competitive Grants for Green Jobs Training
Green For All has prepared a pamphlet about the U.S. Department of Labor's $500 million in Competitive Grants for Green Jobs Training, which are new under the Recovery Act. The pamphlet is meant as a resource for policy advocates, policy makers, employers, individuals, and applicants. It includes key information about each grant program, recommendations for how grantees can best implement these grants, and tips for writing grant proposals.
Business Guide to the Recovery
The purpose of this guide is to help businesses and nonprofits navigate the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). While the federal government has shown great initiative in passing ARRA, it is the private sector that will sustain our economic stability. This guide identifies opportunities to leverage ARRA investments to bring the green economy to scale, both nationally and in America’s most vulnerable communities.
Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States
"Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States", is a new report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PERI), commissioned by Green For All and NRDC.
Understanding the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program
A guide to understanding the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program.
A Short Guide to Setting Up a City Scale Retrofit Program
This guide by Green For All and COWS provides a model for designing and implementing weatherization and retrofitting programs on a citywide scale, with a goal of making such retrofits available to all and realize their potential to address climate change, put people to work, and reduce our energy bills.
Federal Resources to Enhance and Sustain Green Pathways Out of Poverty Programs
This guide includes a short list of federal discretionary funding resources (mostly that existed before the Recovery Act) that may support a diverse array of services and activities for participants in green jobs training programs. This list is not meant to be exhaustive but to encourage broad and creative thinking about strategic planning for the financing and sustainability of green pathway out of poverty programs.
