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Posts Tagged ‘Rising Sun’

Sun raining solar energy jobs on Oakland, Richmond

By Aileen Macalintal | April 14, 2017
RichmondBUILD workers installing solar panels at Freethy Industrial Park. (Photo courtesy MCE)

Jobs data for Alameda and Contra Costa solar industry looks sunny, but challenges lie ahead.

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Women Build graduates its first all-female class in the construction trades

By Katherine Wei | May 11, 2016
The first all-women's Green Energy Training Services (GETS) pre-apprenticeship cohort pose with their certificates on the day of their graduation. Photo courtesy of Rising Sun Energy Center.

The majority of people in the room seemed to be women, and many wore proud smiles on their faces. They were attending the graduation ceremony of the first all-female Green Energy Training Services (GETS) pre-apprenticeship cohort held by Berkeley non-profit organization Rising Sun Energy Center, and the room at John F. Kennedy University’s Berkeley campus was…

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Building the future for women in trades

By Serla Rusli | March 23, 2016 | 2
Women Build

The Bay Area’s first and only all-women construction and solar training program was launched last week in Berkeley. Women Build was launched in response to the low participation of women in the construction trades.

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