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MINI CASE SuurGREEN ALLIANCE A NEW WAY OF SUSTAINABILITY
Environmental organitat in the United States, in The Blue Green Alliance ispresenthy working build a cleaner tives clean energy transportation, climate change, green of abor and and fairer economy This coalition schools, recycling, "made in Americ workers rights. work the way environmental organi environment and public health fuel effcient vehicles, energy assumptions embracing auttainablity helps us rethink our efficiency and infrastructure. Its members lobby for legisla- from the around up tive changes, educate themselves and other publics, and ne Not badtionally collaborators, the United Steel Workers union and the environmentalist gotiate to include BlueGreen values in their contracts and group the Sierra Club ether business relationships. For example, the group's Apolo launched an effort in 2008 to focus on environmental policy Allance Project focuses on educating businesses on reduced and expand the number and quality of jobs in the green carbon emissions and the creation of green jobs that mental problema were s saw that economic and environ. come as a result of the move clean energy listing. they could linked, and that if they worked to daily jobs Ally bring The Blue Allance publishes update, The two very different visions to the The and a activities solution process. The collaboration surprised many because ohttp org). It conducts research in environmentalists and unions had been issues in the opposed on many green job development and offers public education on its ini past, including oil drilling in the Alaska Arctic tatives. The foundation also train- National wadlife Refuge. the protection of specific species ing program for bringing wwanable approaches to work. and the opening of the Keystone XL pipeline, with unions environmentalists' proposed solutions Questions because they thought they would cost jobs. Yet their collabo- ration found common ground and has been succes for Lis the BlueGreen Allance a partnership of convenience, several years, taking on many additional partners including or does it have the potential to build a new way of ap- the Communications Workers of America, the Natural proaching sustainability with limits, interdependence.
Resources Defense Council, the Service Employees Interna tional Union, the National Wildlife Federation, and the United 2 Unions may prefer protectionist measures to preserve Auto Workers. The BlueGreen Alliance now has over jobs.
Do you think this policy can fit a sustainable ap-proach? Why or why not?