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Put an ally over the top & fuel community renewal!
A local ally of ours in Pittsburgh is close to winning $50,000 to sustain their work, they just need some help from you! Growth Through Energy & Community Health (GTECH) is a social enterprise that transitions vacant land into platforms for community revitalization.
Win $1000 through Green For All's art contest. DEADLINE MONDAY.
Do you make art, music, or video? Want to win $1,000 for sharing your creative message about an inclusive green economy? Submit your art to The Dream Reborn Story Contest. All submissions are due this Monday, February 8th. Through the contest, Green For All will showcase videos, songs, poems, and visual art about the green economy and how it's bringing opportunity to communities across the country.
1st ever Capital Access Program Newsletter!
We at Green For All are excited about the release of the first issue of our Capital Access Program (CAP) Newsletter, which aims to provide readers with information about policy, business, and entrepreneurship related to the green economy. This inaugural issue includes a federal policy update, a profile of a successful green entrepreneur, exciting opportunities from CAP, and much more!
State of the Movement
Tonight President Obama laid out his plan for moving our nation forward in 2010. He made a bold call for clean-energy jobs, saying, "the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And America must be that nation." While we appreciate the President's leadership, there is no question that without a climate and energy bill signed into law, we cannot realize his vision.
Report and video: Portland's innovative energy retrofit program
Today Green For All released a new report and video about an exciting home-weatherization program in Portland, Oregon which can serve as a model for the entire country. Clean Energy Works Portland is an effort that will cut energy bills, create green jobs, reduce pollution and expand business opportunities. In addition, it will ensure that Recovery Act investment dollars reach those hit hardest by the recession. It's not a silver bullet, but it is a great model on which to build an important component of a new clean energy economy.
Senator Murkowski introduces “Dirty Air Act”
Yesterday U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski continued her campaign to undermine the Clean Air Act and to distract the country from real efforts to fix our economy and fight the climate crisis. Murkowski, an Alaska Republican, along with 35 other cosponsors including three Democrats (Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas and Ben Nelson of Nebraska) introduced a resolution in the Senate that would restrict the EPA from enforcing provisions of the Clean Air Act to protect community health.
Call Tues 1/26 – Collaboration for Green Jobs Creation in Energy Efficiency
Next week, Green For All will host our first Community of Practice Learning Call of 2010. Please join us to learn about how an innovative partnership in Seattle among community groups, labor, and workforce trainers is creating the demand for good, green jobs, and ensuring pathways to those jobs.
Continuing the Movement
America is struggling. Families strive to make ends meet while facing an uncertain economic future. The deterioration of our environment – rather than slowing – continues to gain speed. At a moment when we need every opportunity possible, climate change threatens the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable people at home and around the world. We are all impacted by these hard times, but it is the historically disadvantaged – people of color and low-income communities – who find themselves at the point of the spear. This challenge is the Civil Rights Movement’s unfinished business.
Press Release: Green For All expands D.C. office with the addition of Jessy Tolkan and Terence Samuel
[OAKLAND, CA] – Green For All announced today the expansion of its Washington, D.C., office with the addition of Jessy Tolkan and Terence Samuel. Tolkan, formerly of Energy Action Coalition, joins as Political Director. Samuel, previously with TheRoot.com, joins as Communications Director.
Senate vote threatens 40 years of progress: Act now!
The New Year is already bringing new challenges and opportunities. Opponents of clean energy are on the attack, threatening America's families and future, and attempting to set back the progress we've made towards a clean-energy economy.
