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NC Greenforce Conference – Community Colleges Focus on Preparing North Carolina’s Green Workforce

,  |  Nov 29, 2011

More than 100 participants from 37 different community colleges in North Carolina and several local and national organizations came together November 14-15 at Davidson County Community College for the North … Read more

Building a Better Future for Wildlife and Ourselves

,  |  Nov 14, 2011

White House Event Honors Community College Leaders, Businesses, Entrepreneurs If I had any doubts about Americans’ ability to come together and literally build a better future for people and wildlife, … Read more

Green Jobs Summit Series Kicks Off to a Great Start

 |  Oct 29, 2010

Yesterday was a big day for Campus Ecology; the “Preparing the Texas Workforce for the New Green Economy” Summit in San Antonio, Texas was a huge success. It was the first in a series of regional summits put on by the Greenforce Initiatve that NWF and Jobs for the Future (JFF) have jointly created to help spur green jobs education, innovation and training at community colleges in select regions across the country. Read more

Warming Walruses: Watch NWF’s Climate Capsule

 |  Sep 29, 2010

From DC to Alaska, what impact is global warming having on America right now? What’s the National Wildlife Federation doing to help promote green job training? And as Dirty the … Read more

Jobs for the Future, National Wildlife Federation launch The Greenforce Initiative

,  |  Sep 22, 2010

The Greenforce InitiativeTM, a partnership of Jobs for the Future and National Wildlife Federation, launches in six regions of the U.S. – Illinois (Chicagoland), Michigan, North Carolina, Texas (San Antonio … Read more

The Greenforce Initiative underway on community college campuses

,  |  Sep 22, 2010

With jobs in the country’s emerging clean energy sector growing more
than twice as fast as jobs overall, the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and Jobs for the Future (JFF) have joined forces on the two-year Greenforce Initiative, which will spur green jobs education, innovation and training at community colleges in the United States.
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Welcome To Miami – Launching The Greenforce Initiative

 |  Apr 19, 2010

This weekend, the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting welcomed students, more than 100 college and university presidents, and national youth organizations at the University of Miami. The annual … Read more