I’ve come across two very interesting websites: Otesha UK and East London Green Jobs Alliance.
Green Jobs and Justice
Here’s an interesting blog about Green Jobs and Justice by a Co-Director of the Otesha Project UK
Between them, these two groups are organising green job training schemes in East London, working with local colleges, trades unions and businesses which are offering placements to trainees.
As far as I know, nothing like this is happening in Calderdale. Why not? There’s a crying need for jobs in the area, particularly for young people, and there’s plenty of need for green work to be done in all kinds of sectors like home and businesses’ energy efficiency improvements, renewable energy generation, waste reduction and prevention, cradle to cradle production cycles etc. Calderdale College is opening a Sustainable Environmental Technology Centre in September 2013, so there will soon be young people with green skills – and looking for work.
18 per cent of Calderdale households are on the edge of poverty
- 18% are on the edge of poverty – 15,624 households
- Calderdale is ranked 116 in the UK out of 424
- This is is how the community breaks down
- Often indebted families living in low rise estates: 1,372 households, 1.5%
- Older families in low value housing in traditional industrial areas: 2,431, 2.7%
- Low income families occupying poor quality older terraces: 6,158, 7%
- South Asian communities experiencing social deprivation: 3,275, 3.7%