It's Not Easy Being Green-Collar
It's been hard to miss the U.S. presidential candidates talking about it on the campaign trail, and you'll hear a lot more between now and November. With Earth Day coming up, the rhetoric from Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain--and, before he dropped out, John Edwards--on the need for a program of economic revival that embraces environmental sustainability has been striking to say the least.
It's been hard to miss the U.S. presidential candidates talking about it on the campaign trail, and you'll hear a lot more between now and November.
With Earth Day coming up, the rhetoric from Sens. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain--and, before he dropped out, John Edwards--on the need for a program of economic revival that embraces environmental sustainability has been striking to say the least.
According to Green For All, an advocacy group dedicated to fighting poverty through promoting an "inclusive, green economy," the green future "will be invented at the local level," and cities should be encouraged to develop a "green economic development plan" and prepare their workforces for training opportunities.
