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Delancey Street College Program

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Green Collar Jobs
Sustainable Urban Development


RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Alternative Urban Futures: Planning for Sustainable Development in Cities throughout the World (Rowman & Littlefield)

student projects
514 urban transit alternatives book
515 spoken word poetry
515 cradle to grave analyses
515 environmental justice slides
530 appropriate technology projects
530 SFSU campus greening analysis

current course links

515 environmental justice

514 sustainable development
530 alternative futures

Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes
Professor of Urban Studies, San Francisco State University

WHAT'S NEW......

1. The green collar job training program model I developed is being launched in Oakland, through the Oakland Green Job Corp program, and in Cleveland, through the Pathways out of Poverty through Green Collar Jobs program. Both programs are supported by the community college systems.

2. Coming soon... Check out the newest student projects made from recycled materials (see 530 appropriate technology projects on left side of this home page)

3. Coming soon... Check out student spoken word poetry inspired by the theme of environmental justice (see 515 spoken word poetry on left side of this home page)

4. Coming soon.... Students in URBS 515 conducted a study with residents in Midway Village, the report will be up on this site in fall 2008.

5. Students in my classes raised funds to send farm animals to low-income families and support sustainable development in the Philippines through the HEIFER project.
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6. Check out my textbook on sustainable urban development:
Alternative Urban Futures: Planning for Sustainable Cities throughout the World (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004)
This book focuses on planning and policy approaches and appropriate technologies that can be used to minimize a city's impact on the environment while providing urban residents with the infrastructure and services they need to sustain a high quality of urban life. The book's focus is on ecologically and socially responsible planning and management of the urban infrastructure in five critical areas: water supply and management, waste minimization and management, energy production and use, transportation, and food systems.
The book is unique in its emphasis on sustainable urban infrastructure management, processes and appropriate technologies, its pragmatic focus, its comprehensiveness, and its truly international, non-Eurocentric approach... (find out more)


Pathways out of Poverty through Green Collar Jobs

REPORT & EXEC SUMMARY
can be downloaded at this site by clicking on the purple links below


Green Collar Jobs (PDF)

Executive Summary (PDF)

email: raquelrp@sfsu.edu

Department of Urban Studies
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
Phone: 415-338-7520
Office: HSS 136

© Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes | Last updated November 2007