Lessons from California – want to be on a Green Jobs mailing list?
From 28th March – April 2nd, I will be joining IPPR on their West Coast Green Alliances learning exchange. We will be meeting with some incredibly inspirational organisations and alliances over there,...
View ArticleGoodbye Gear Up.. Hello East London Green Jobs Alliance!
How time flies. It is March already, and that means our Gear Up programme is wrapping up. As coordinator of the programme, I have had such a fun time meeting all the young people we have worked with,...
View ArticleGreen Jobs – Richmond BUILD
Another glorious day in California! We have done so much but for now, let me tell you about Richmond Build. The background Richmond Build is a job-training programme of the City of Richmond’s...
View ArticleWhat the (bleep) is a green job?
I am going to be writing a monthly guest blog on green jobs over at 10:10. Here’s the first one copied here for your pleasure, but click this link to see the original post with the pretty pictures… A...
View ArticleA just transition or just a transition?
Otesha team member Hanna Thomas, who is lead organiser of the East London Green Jobs Alliance, has been writing in the Occupied Times – the newspaper produced by the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp –...
View ArticleUnfair Advantage
A little cartoon abut doping (which allows me to crow bar in my interest in solar panels – sorry). Click to see the full size image. More cartoons here.
View ArticleUN summits, flying, decisions, decisions, decisions: or, how we think we...
I’m on a bit of a 90s kick at the moment – dungarees, lots of plaid, long straggly hair, and Grandmaster Flash on the stereo. And it’s not just me feeling nostalgic, even the United Nations (UN) is...
View ArticleFailing forward
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life....
View ArticleTime for cities to take the lead
What a summer! The last time we checked in we were at the UN Rio+20 Earth Summit, tracking the negotiations around green jobs and green economy alongside the Adopt a Negotiator project. Since then, we...
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