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Title: Summary of the Making Green Jobs Safe Workshop
Description: Only published in August 2011, this report is a summary of meetings held December 14–16, 2009 at the Mandarin Hotel,Washington, DC. to gain input from 170 representatives from the occupational safety and health and environmental communities within industry, labor, academia, government agencies, and nongovernment organizations. Participants discussed the occupational hazards and risks associated with green jobs and how to emphasize that green jobs should be safe and healthy for workers. The report presents prioritized recommendations for how to achieve this in the 6 sectors under discussion: Construction, Infrastructure, and Repurposing of Materials ●● Manufacturing and Emerging Technologies ●● Energy, Mining, and Building Operation and Maintenance ●● Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing ●● Transportation ●● Waste Management and Recycling The outcomes of the workshop were considered in the development of specific goals to eliminate the hazards and minimize the risks associated with green jobs. These goals have been included in the Prevention through Design Plan for the National Initiative.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120595

Title: Occupational wages and employment in Green goods and services - November 2011
Description: Presents data from a sample during the survey period of November 2011. Amongst the finding: five of the 6 largest detailed occupations in all-green establishments were in the transportation and material moving occupational group. These 5 occupations were school or special client bus drivers (174,450); transit and intercity bus drivers (111,760); refuse and recyclable materials collectors (56,930); hand laborers and freight, stock, and material movers (54,890); and heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers (39,060).
Identifier (PID): yul:1120591

Title: A Green Industrial Revolution: Climate Justice, Green Jobs and Sustainable Production in Canada
Description: Marc Lee and Amanda Card acknowledge that transition to a zero carbon Canada will take several decades, and state that the principal challenge for Canada and all countries is to decouple the economy from fossil fuels. They calculate that only 9% of Canadian workers are employed in jobs related to fossil fuels and other "hot spots" of Canadian industry (including electricity generation, freight transportation and transportation services, chemical manufacturing, metal manufacturing and agriculture), yet these sectors comprise 78% of industrial and commercial GHG emissions. The authors also calculate GHG emissions per worker in 14 industrial sectors in Canada. The report offers 12 recommendations for achieving zero carbon growth while creating and maintaining decent green jobs.
Identifier (PID): yul:773235

Title: Employment in Green Goods and Services - 2010
Description: The first year of results for the Green Goods and Services survey, measuring the extent of green jobs in the U.S., using the BLS unique definition. A second report released in 2013 cumulates and adjusts this information.
Identifier (PID): yul:1120580