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From the grass-roots up: Lawyer sees a green future Apr 11, 2008 The Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND - For more than a decade, Oakland has been home to a little-known crusader who has made it his mission to save the planet and the inner city. In January, Van Jones, co-founder of the local Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, flew halfway around the world to tell the prestigious World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, about a new partnership model that he pioneered, bringing government, business and unions together to create jobs and clean up the environment.

The faces of green Apr 10, 2008 Grist

The hopeful skeptic in me was the part most drawn to The Dream Reborn conference hosted by Green For All last weekend in Memphis. So once I arrived, I stuck to what I deemed the practical path, sessions with titles like "Show Me the Money" and "Green-Collar Job Training Programs: Examples and Models" that would delineate exactly how to make this green economy happen.

op-ed: The dream reborn: building a green economy for all Apr 10, 2008 The Student Weekly of Middlebury College

"We are the dream generation, we are the dream reborn." This chant started as a whisper, stirring more than a thousand people to unite in song and hope. We rose in celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision of a just and equal society, and in a promise to pursue his dream. We gathered in the tradition of a southern Baptist church to honor Dr. King and to create a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty and fight global warming.

Past and Present Apr 10, 2008 Memphis Flyer Online

Forty and counting: the dubious merits of being America's civil rights city. At a University of Memphis forum last week commemorating the 40th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, a young man in the audience asked the panelists if Memphis was forever stuck in 1968.

Global-warming conference honors civil rights leader, addresses issues facing African-Americans, disadvantaged communities Apr 06, 2008 Commercialappeal.com

Mix the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with efforts to fight global warming and inner-city poverty and the Dream Reborn Conference emerges. "This is the first 'green' conference honoring Dr. King and really addressing the issues of African-Americans and other disadvantaged communities," said Van Jones, 39, the Mid-Southerner who started Green For All and helped bring the Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit group's three-day conference to Memphis.

Getting together for green jobs Apr 05, 2008 Grist

Yesterday in Memphis, a crowd stood outside the Lorraine Motel to quietly honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the place where he died 40 years ago. All day long, it rained.