GREEN FOR ALL LAUNCHES AT THE CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE

Green For All, a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy, launched at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York on September 26, 2007.  The group, created by Van Jones, co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, seeks to capitalize on the exploding green economy while ensuring that the coming green economic wave lifts all boats.

“It’s time the African American community had a part in the discussion on climate change,” said Jones. “We’re not going to solve global warming just with expensive consumer choices like buying hybrid cars and shopping for organic food. People need to realize that you don’t have to be white or wealthy to benefit from going green.”

Green For All is a bold effort to harness the growing power of the green economic revolution to fight the war on poverty. By securing job training for hundreds of thousands of workers from urban communities for the emerging green job market, the program will provide new avenues of opportunity for those who have traditionally been left behind by the nation's economic growth. It will also give the crusade against global warming a broader social base, extending the green revolution to the neglected streets of cities like Oakland, Detroit, Baltimore and New Orleans.