Full Funding of the Green Jobs Act has a chance on the Senate floor tomorrow!

Word from our friends at Green For All is Senator Bernie Sanders is going to offer an amendment on the floor tomorrow to the economic stimulus package, asking for them to add in full funding of the Green Jobs Act. This Green Jobs Act was included in the 2007 Energy Bill but has yet to be funded.

Tell Congress it’s time to “GO GREEN AND GO EQUAL in the stimulus package: fund the Green Jobs Act tomorrow and support the Sanders Amendment!”

If possible, please help spread the word, hit your email lists and encourage everyone you know to call their Senator’s DC office as soon as possible, ask to speak with the staff person working on the economic stimulus package, and ask that staff person to support the Sanders Amendment to fully fund the green job workforce training program.

With Focus the Nation events tomorrow across the country (!), here’s another idea: bring your cell phone and a list of phone numbers for your state’s Senator’s offices to your Focus the Nation event! Grab people who are jazzed up from Focus and tell them they have a chance to help create thousands of new green collar jobs… all they have to do is take two minutes to call their Senator from your phone (or there’s) right now! Just an idea… Time is (very) short, so seize the opportunity and get on the phone!

Here’s the skinny:

1. Call your Senator’s DC office. Contact info available here…

2. Ask to speak with the Staff person working on the Economic Stimulus Package

3. Ask for your senator to support the Sanders Amendment to fully fund the green job workforce training program.

On a related note: the Senate has included extensions of critical clean energy incentives in their version of the Stimulus Package, heading to the floor tomorrow. If we get the Green Jobs Act funded, we’ll have a clean, green stimulus that’ll help us on a path to a sustainable, just, and prosperous future! Spread the word!

Green For All!

About Jesse

Jesse Jenkins is an energy and climate policy analyst, advocate, and blogger. Jesse is currently the Director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Breakthrough Institute in Oakland, California, where he works to develop and advance new energy solutions to power America's future, secure our energy freedom, and halt global warming. He joined Breakthrough in June 2008 and previously directed the Breakthrough Generation fellowship program for young clean energy leaders. Jesse worked previously as a Research and Policy Associate at the Renewable Northwest Project in Portland, OR, helping to advance the development of the Pacific Northwest's abundant renewable energy potential. A prolific author and blogger on clean energy issues, Jesse is the founder and chief editor of WattHead - Energy News and Commentary, a member of the blogger board at the Energy Collective and policy editor at Its Getting Hot In Here. Jesse is a co-founder of the youth-led Cascade Climate Network, a board member of Focus the Nation and a graduate of the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon.

2 Responses to “Full Funding of the Green Jobs Act has a chance on the Senate floor tomorrow!”

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1 Morgan Goodwin Jan 31st, 2008 at 1:31 am

This is amazing. I know I’ll be making several calls (and getting other people to help). I hope lots of FTN organizers can find the time to make a call themselves and get some of their friends to help.

Even if every campus only generates 5 calls, or 1 call, this will be huge!
2 Morgan Goodwin Jan 31st, 2008 at 2:27 am

This looks amazing. I’m going to make a call, and I’ll probably get a bunch of my friends to.

Can you imagine if every Focus the Nation event made even 5 calls each? That’d be huge.