Oregon Bluegreen Alliance Case Study

The goals of this report are to explore how The Oregon BlueGreen Alliance can work to support the creation of quality green jobs as a co-benefit for low income communities in differing contexts and stages of local climate action planning. This section of the report outlines the research design and objectives.
Interviews and climate plans were evaluated from several cities, three case studies were selected as the primary sites of inquiry to gain a detailed understanding of how climate plans are designed, implemented, and maintained in various contexts. Through this understanding The Oregon BlueGreen Alliance can identify opportunities to pursue their mission of supporting quality green job development. Interviews and Climate Plans served as the primary sources of data for this project. Interviews with climate plan authors were designed to gauge the degree to which job creation is considered a goal of climate planning, if at all (For a complete list of interview questions see Appendix A). Additionally, participants were asked their opinions about important sectors of the local economy and what roles a coalition like the Blue-Green Alliance could play in future climate planning …show more content…
Findings were categorized according the responses to similar questions that were asked of each participant about the nature of green policies and green jobs in their respective sectors. Common themes, as show in the table below, include the role of environmental policies in hindering or creating jobs and the ways that policies effect markets in a positive or negative fashion for union workers. See Appendix B for a complete list of semi-structured interview questions for labor