3 Mar 2008

TODAY

• Continued compiling resources/taking notes on GCJs. Didn't get through a whole lot - Pinderhughes, UNEP/Worldwatch, ASES, CIPHER/SCOPE.
  
• Skimmed the Workforce Alliance report on federal workforce development programs/funding. Good report! Not sure if it will be useful.
  
• Am getting away a bit from the "case study" task - the UNEP and ASES reports are about more macro-level job creation - numbers, rather than specific green collar job case studies.
• Still, the idea of case studies of GCJs is a bit ambiguous. Includes descriptions of jobs in green industries? Probably want case studies of Green Collar Job programs, which are likely to be training programs to put disadvantaged individuals into "green" industry jobs. Examples of these are few and will probably be covered in upcoming Apollo Alliance report. Do more in depth study of them? Or do "green collar jobs" case studies mean something different?

TOMORROW

• Take notes on the UCLA policy brief (p.16) - remember to include CA state solar training program (still exists?)
  
• Other WIA training programs that focus on green jobs?
  
• Write up memo for Bob - maybe a synthesis of what I know plus companion documents with the case study blurbs and annotated bibliography.