Greg Weeks Responded to the Recently Released Brookings Institution Sizing the Clean Economy

SUMMARY-TOPIC SUMMARY ACTION WelcomeEvergreen and JobsBryan LeadershipWilson, Workforce Team Board Meeting Deputy Director, welcomed IntroductionsJuly 26, 2011 the team and presented the May meeting summary. 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Department ofDaniel Commerce Malarkey – 1011shared Plum the Pacific Street Coast SE, Collaborative’sBldg. 5, 4th Floor http://www.pacificcoastcollaboratiRm 407 Lightning meeting agenda for the October 2011 Power Smart Forum: ve.org/Pages/Welcome.aspx RoundAttendees: Bryan Wilson,Adjusting Daniel to a Malarkey, Changing Joyce Climate. Brake, Martin McCallum, Tiffany Merkel, Beth Meyer, Greg Weeks, Chris Thomas, Katherine Mahoney, Hedia Adelsman, Terry Tilton, Darlene Bartlett. By phone: Troy Nutter. Martin McCallum announced that the Department of Labor http://www.jff.org/media/news- just began a Green Ways Initiative, which will expand job releases/2011/jobs-future-launch- training efforts for workers in seven cities, including green-jobs-training-h/1240 Seattle. Nonprofit organization Jobs for the Future will implement the initiative and leverage its expertise in green sector training in four industry areas: green construction; auto technology, manufacturing, and utilities.

Joyce Brake announced that the Washington Defense http://events.r20.constantcontact. Partnership will discuss linking the military to green com/register/event? economy jobs at a meeting in Bremerton on August 17. On oeidk=a07e3bnzdo8561a1e85&llr August 18, the Pacific Northwest Defense Symposium will =yqt6vpeab continue the discussion at its annual event, this year entitled “Energy and Security: The Way Forward.”

Greg Weeks, Director of the Employment Security Department’s Labor Market and Economic Analysis Division, announced that their green jobs survey will begin August 1 and will be ready in October.

Green Jobs Brian Wilson led a debrief of the June 17 Green Jobs The team will discuss the Forum Debrief Forum, which led to an outline format for the next legislative report outline at the Evergreen Jobs Leadership Team Legislative Report. next meeting.

Emerging Daniel Malarkey presented a Department of Commerce “Emerging Business Models in Business draft publication that outlines several business models that Energy Efficiency” will soon be Models in sustain the ongoing drive toward energy efficiency and available on the Department’s Energy employment in the green environment. website. Efficiency

Brookings Greg Weeks responded to the recently released Brookings http://www.brookings.edu/reports Institute Institution “Sizing the Clean Economy: A National and /2011/0713_clean_economy.aspx Report Regional Green Jobs Assessment” report, highlighting the difficulties of counting and defining green jobs across a spectrum of industries.