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“Green Jobs: Key to an Economically Viable Future” is the second forum in a two-part series on Building Sustainable Local Communities that will be held at William Paterson University on April 20, 2010. The event will be held in University Commons Room 168A-B on the campus in Wayne. Participants are invited to arrive at 6 p.m. for a light supper. Programs begin at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Many communities across New Jersey, the country and the world have embarked on a process of transformational change that will result in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and reducing other kinds of pollution while providing jobs in a new “green” economy, and improving the quality of life for their residents.
The aim of this gathering is to share differing approaches to the policy issue, air the barriers to achieving effective policy solutions, help participants connect the local to the global, and learn from each other ways to improve policy design and implementation.
Speakers are: Charles Bell, vice chair, National Jobs for All Coalition and programs director, Consumers Union; Chloe Tribich, senior policy organizer, Center for Working Families; and Jerry Flach, project director for Sustainable Building, Habitat for Humanity, Paterson, and sustainable business owner
The Forum series brings together practitioners of sustainability with technical experts, mayors, municipal managers and planners, city council members, small business owners, grassroots community activists, interested citizens and members of the academic community. Discussions explore the benefits and challenges of building sustainable local communities. The event also gives the University’s graduate students in the public policy and international affairs program an opportunity to meet with community practitioners. The event is funded by a grant from the Alumni Association.
The event, part of The Forum on Creative Policy Perspectives, is an ongoing series that will continue through 2011. The first forum addressed the topic of building political and community support for a long-term sustainability program. The program is sponsored by the master’s program in public policy and international affairs of the Political Science Department at William Paterson University.
For more information, please contact Sheila Collins, director, M.A. in Public Policy and International Affairs, Department of Political Science at William Paterson University at 973-720-3424 or collinss@wpunj.edu.
