California Center for Sustainable Energy

Date:

Tuesday, Nov. 10

Time:

2:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Places:

California Center for Sustainable Energy
8690 Balboa Ave., Suite 100, San Diego, CA

Highlights:

Speakers and workshop participants. Panel members will discuss their role in green job development and how they entered the green workplace.

Selected Speakers:

Charlene Zettel, San Diego office of Gov. Schwarzenegger
Kelly Jenkins-Pultz, Dept. of Labor Women’s Bureau
Lorena Gonzales, San Diego/Imperial Valley Labor Council
Irene M. Stillings, California Center for Sustainable Energy
Jennifer Lewis, Cuyamaca College
Wendy Evers, San Diego State University

SOT:

CCSE spokespersons and invited speakers will be available for interview.

Background: The California Center for Sustainable Energy is providing a forum bringing together experts from training, education, labor and workforce develop-ment communities in San Diego. Brief presentations will be followed by an open discussion of experiences and lessons learned in the green jobs movement. This event is being conducted under a contract with the Dept. of Labor, Women’s Bureau Region 9. The roundtable is free and open to the public.

Related News: CCSE is a participant in several new initiatives that have received Recovery Act funds related to kick-starting green employment in San Diego. One program provides nearly $3.5 million in funding from the Dept. of Energy to the California Community Colleges, in collaboration with CCSE, the California Energy Commission and the Labor Management Cooperation Committee (IBEW-NECA), to create a statewide standardized training curriculum and certification program for solar photovoltaic ( PV) and Solar Thermal. An additional $1 million award from the California Clean Energy Workforce Training Program to the Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District will fund a broad-based initiative in which CCSE is participating as a member of the San Diego Green Building Training Collaborative.

To register visit CCSE's event calendar