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 is a graduate of the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon (Class of 2006). While at the U of O, Jesse worked on a number of campus sustainability initiatives, including helping kick-start the Campus Climate Challenge at the UO and starting an initiative to bring clean wind power to UO dorm students. Jesse is currently the co-director of the Breakthrough Generation fellowship program at the Oakland, CA-based Breakthrough Institute (check out the Breakthrough Generation blog here). Before joining Breakthrough, Jesse spent two years as a renewable energy policy analyst and advocate with the Renewable Northwest Project, a Portland, OR-based non-profit promoting renewable energy development in the Pacific Northwest. Jesse is still an active youth climate activist and helped found the Cascade Climate Network, the first ever, region-wide effort by Northwest youth to launch a coordinated campaign for climate solutions and a sustainable, just, and prosperous future in 2007. Jesse is also a veteran blogger, having maintained the energy and climate change news and commentary blog, WattHead for the past two and a half years.

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.