The CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council (CAWWREC) is pleased to announce that we have been chosen to be the Ontario Regional Convener for the upcoming Blue Green Alliance 2012 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Midwestern Regional Conference, based on our long history of successful campaigns advocating for Jobs and Our Environment.

The Midwestern Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference will be held at the Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan, May 10-11, 2012. http://www.greenjobsconference.org/detroit

Registration is only $195.00 USD for this exciting conference and is now open at this link. http://www.certain.com/system/profile/form/index.cfm

Please indicate on your registration form that you heard about the conference from the CAW Windsor Regional Environment Council. This will allow us to send up to 2 delegates to the conference. The CAWWREC is a non-profit organization that is funded solely through grass roots fundraising efforts.

The Good Jobs, Green Jobs Midwest in Detroit, will feature more than 40 workshops covering:

o                 Business, Investments and New Markets

o                 Clean Energy Manufacturing

o                 Emerging Green Sectors

o                 Infrastructure and Cleaner, More Efficient Transportation

o                 Regional, State and Local Initiatives and Partnerships

o                 Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency

o                 Responsible Investment and Workers’ Capital

o                 Workforce and Economic Development

o                 Youth, Education and Green Schools - Building a Clean Energy Movement

We appreciate your support for the CAWWREC and your commitment to making the conference a success.

BY SHARON HILL, THE WINDSOR STAR

NOVEMBER 2, 2009 7:31 AM

Bill Clinton is coming to Windsor in April.

WINDSOR, Ont. — Former U.S. president Bill Clinton will be in to Windsor in April as the keynote opening speaker for the Enviro-Expo 2010.

“It’s huge,” said Chris Uszynski, development officer of the Essex Region Conservation Foundation, of the honour of getting Clinton.

Uszynski called Clinton the ultimate speaker who will “bring a lot of attention regionally to this show, to this city and really to our cause.”

The Enviro-Expo 2010 is a fundraiser for the foundation, which seeks to promote healthy living, conservation and environmental improvements.

The expo is April 15 to 18 and Clinton will open the green lifestyle show April 15 at 7 p.m. at Caesars Windsor. He will be speaking in the 5,000-seat Colosseum at the casino and is expected to answer questions after his presentation.

Tickets for Clinton’s speech will range from $68 to $175 a seat. Tickets to a private reception where patrons will get a chance to meet Clinton and get their picture taken with him, will go for $1,500 each.

Tickets go on sale Nov. 23 at www.ourgreenlegacy.org.

The expo is expected to offer about 300 exhibits and attract 25,000 people.

It will cost $5 to get into the trade show.

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The Canadian Auto Workers Windsor Regional Environment Council (CAW WREC) represents over 45,000 members of 15 locals between Windsor and Sarnia, Ontario.

 CAW WREC has launched a “Green Jobs” Campaign. The aim of the campaign is to help reverse the devastating loss of manufacturing and related jobs in the Windsor area, and across Canada, by promoting investment in Research and Development and the creation of “Green Jobs” in our area.

 The CAW WREC Green Jobs Campaign will engage the entire community, including citizens, government, business and academia, to work together to support the creation of Green Jobs in every sector of the economy and to establish the Windsor area as a “Green Jobs” centre in Ontario.

 The production of “green vehicles” offers immediate opportunities for jobs. In Windsor, Ford could be building efficient engines and General Motors could produce efficient transmissions and components. Chrysler could build hybrid, clean diesel, bio-fuel (ethanol and soy) and, eventually, electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.

 The campaign will also focus on non-auto Green Jobs in sustainable energy production and green products.One example of a green product is the recent production of carbon-fibre utility poles by Global Composite Manufacturing of Tilbury, Ontario. This resulted in the hiring of 127 workers. 

Another recent example of the transformation to Green Production is the conversion of a former Hyundai auto plant in Quebec to the production of wind turbines by a company called AAER.

 In Denmark, shipyards were converted to the production of Wind turbines which created thousands of jobs.The Windsor area has the production capacity and skills base to do the same.

 This campaign is also aimed at the broader long term goal of Economic Conversion. This means moving from our present unsustainable economic model to one that embraces environmental sustainability and social justice through a “Just Transition for Workers During Environmental Change” as articulated by the CLC.  http://canadianlabour.ca/index.php/Just_Transition

 The CAWWREC Green Jobs Campaign will complement the goals of the CAW Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy and the CAW Green Auto Policy.

 The campaign will build on the CAW WREC collaboration with the Green Corridor of the University of Windsor on alternative energy and environmentally and economically sustainable business models. http://www.greencorridor.ca/

 The CAW WREC Green Jobs Campaign can inspire other communities across our country to foster the creation of Green Jobs and a Just Transition to a Green Economy in Canada for Canadian workers.

Mark Bartlett 

519-982-8115 or mdmbartlett@aol.com