○ Join our friends at the Washington BlueGreen Alliance on May 19 at 10 am for a dialogue with Larry Brown, President of the Washington State Labor Council and two leading policy experts on what it takes to design a robust and fair low-carbon recovery that puts frontline workers and communities first. Sign up here!

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○ WHAT: BlueGreen Dialogue on Workforce Policy for a Robust & Fair Low-Carbon Recovery

○ WHEN: Tuesday, May 19 from 10 to 11:30 AM

○ WHERE: Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants 24 hours in advance

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○ RSVP online @ bitly.com/BGAMay19 and share the Facebook event!

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○ Speakers:

○ Larry Brown, President, Washington State Labor Council

○ Carol Zabin, Director, UC Berkeley Labor Center’s Green Economy Program

○ Zoe Lipman, Director, BlueGreen Alliance’s Vehicles and Advanced Transportation Program

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○ Investing in a low-carbon transition has the potential to be a powerful tool for tackling the dual crises of COVID-19 and climate change. However, it requires advocates to infuse proactive and intentional workforce levers to ensure widely-shared and durable economic gain. At a moment of unprecedented economic crisis, recovery must take center stage.

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○ Environmental advocates have long touted clean energy development for its double bottom line of cutting carbon pollution and growing economic opportunity. While that potential is clear, jobs typically thought of as “clean energy jobs”, such as rooftop solar installation, are too often seasonal, low-wage jobs. For this reason, advancing pre-existing environmental priorities as stimulus could exacerbate the same inequalities that left workers vulnerable to the pandemic. But with the right workforce policies and strategic investment decisions, we can design a low-carbon transition that creates long-term economic development with good, union jobs that lift families out of poverty and grow the middle class.

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○ Speakers will share their insights on what COVID-19 means for how we approach the low-carbon transition and the tools available to maximize the economic impact of stimulus investments and promote fair outcomes.