BlueGreen Alliance Foundation

Established in 2006, the BlueGreen Alliance Foundation (BFAG) works toward a sustainable economy in which environmental progress and job creation go hand in hand. One of its goals is to make the case for additional public and private investment in green jobs, which will also increase the demand for clean energy and green technologies. There is a growing need for education at the base of the labor and environmental movements to address the climate crisis; a central aim of BGAF is to broaden the environmental movement by building a blue-collar constituency for global warming solutions. The overall goals include: engaging unions and environmental organizations to lead development of a national blueprint to address the challenges and seize the economic opportunities of global warming; promote "green" manufacturing processes that will make jobs more secure and less toxic; accelerate the growth of new green building; create more investments in research, development, demonstration and deployment of green technologies; highlight the connections between green investments, environmental solutions, job creation and trade reform. BGAF will focus on the following outcomes: increasing support among BGAF labor and environmental partners for green economic investment and national global warming strategy; broadening the base of support within organized labor for investment in clean energy and green technologies; increasing the workers understanding of the baseline definition of green jobs.