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Green For All at the Green Business Conference
Many of us know the story of Green For All. It’s a beautiful congruence of old school environmentalism, sustainable economic development, and social justice. It’s one of the great feel-good stories of the new economy. So where is Green For All now? Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins spoke to the Green Business Conference about their vision for the future.
Green for All: Weatherize NYC - VIDEO
We often think of pollution as something that comes from factories and large corporations, but in fact much of the greenhouse gases causing climate change come from everyday homes. Green for All is leading the charge for sustainable jobs that support working people; this video from Green for All and GOOD magazine takes a look at companies weatherizing homes in New York and the benefits to consumers, workers, and the world.
Green for All’s green economy roadmap
Green for All, a leading green jobs advocacy organization, has released the green economy roadmap, which highlights good green jobs news from around the country.
The Story Behind The Recovery Numbers.
640,329 That figure represents the number of jobs that have been created or saved so far through the Recovery Act, according to a report released by the Obama administration on Friday. But the true significance of this number lies in the people behind it.
UPDATED WITH AUDIOCAST LINK! Join Mayor Adams on Green for All's National Call about Portland's Innovation
Last Thursday, Mayor Adams joined with Phaedra Ellis Lamkins, Green For All CEO and Margie Harris, Executive Director of Energy Trust of Oregon to discuss Clean Energy Works Portland on Green For All's National Call about Recovery Innovation in Portland.
10 black women you should know
Every social movement in history has involved great women striving so that justice and equality may be achieved. Here are 10 black women who are leading the struggle for change on many of the issues affecting our community today.
Weatherizing Portland
Clean Energy Works Portland is a groundbreaking new program that enables Portland residents to improve the energy efficiency of their homes and pay for the improvements over time through their utility bills. “We wanted to have this project reflect some higher set of goals beyond just retrofitting homes and reducing carbon emissions,” said Derek Smith of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, the city’s go-to person on the Clean Energy Works Portland program. Smith of the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability said he got the idea to bring labor and training standards and community benefits into the program from being part of the Green For All “community of practice.”
Sen. Kerry to youth on climate bill: We’re gonna need your help
On a conference call Tuesday night with young climate activists, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) served up several newsy tidbits, starting with his hint that sort-of climate news will come out of President Obama’s upcoming trip to China and that getting a bill through Congress will mean compromising with Republicans who want more nuclear energy. Kerry’s comments came on a call organized by Green For All focusing on how young people can help up the ante in demanding a clean energy future.
Do Green Jobs Create Greener Americans?
Most “green job” training programs aim to teach low-income workers the job skills necessary to join the nascent clean-tech economy: energy-efficiency retrofitting, wind turbine maintenance, brownfield remediation and so forth.
Offshoots of Nonprofit Groups at Work in the Green Economy
Mr. Casasnovas, an employee of SmartRoofs L.L.C., was doing routine maintenance on the vegetative roof, which his company installed in June 2003. The company, based in the Bronx, is one of the few green roofers in the New York metropolitan area. But what makes SmartRoofs even more unusual is that it is part of a tiny but growing trend among small businesses: for-profit ventures spun off by nonprofit groups that teach the job skills necessary to join the nascent green economy.
Color of Money
Very few of the stimulus dollars allocated for energy efficiency -- and the green jobs they can create -- have been allocated or spent by governments. At first this might seem a bit discouraging. But Green for All, a national advocacy and action agency focused on energy efficiency and green jobs, has highlighted local stimulus spending in a recent report.
Color of Money
Very few of the stimulus dollars allocated for energy efficiency -- and the green jobs they can create -- have been allocated or spent by governments. At first this might seem a bit discouraging. But Green for All, a national advocacy and action agency focused on energy efficiency and green jobs, has highlighted local stimulus spending in a recent report.
Denver's aquaponics project aims to turn "food desert" into an oasis of health
A dilapidated greenhouse in Denver's Elyria-Swansea neighborhood could soon sprout one of the nation's newest trends: inner-city farming using state-of-the-art technology to grow crops and fish in a single symbiotic system that mimics nature's water cycle. One of the founders of Urban Organics became inspired to start the project after a year-long fellowship at Green For All.
Climate Equity Alliance's Walsh discusses consumer protection measures in Kerry-Boxer
Does the Kerry-Boxer climate bill adequately protect low- and middle-income households from rising energy prices? During today's OnPoint, Jason Walsh, national policy director at Green for All, a founding member of the Climate Equity Alliance, discusses the consumer protection provisions of the bill and explains how the distribution of allowances will affect consumers.
Just Green Jobs: Transitioning towards an environ-mental economy
Organizers of the Power Shift Canada 2009 conference are looking to bring hundreds of young activists from across the country to Ottawa, from October 23-26, to discuss climate change in the run-up to the United Nations Climage Change Conference in Copenhagen this December. But along with climate change, the Ottawa conference will also be looking to empower attendees to participate in the transition to green jobs. I had the opportunity to sit down with Ben Powless, a Power Shift organizer who had just returned from the Green For All Academy in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.
Opportunity, Fully Funded
Yesterday, Green For All and Living Cities unveiled the Energy Efficiency Opportunity Fund alongside President Clinton, at the closing session of Clinton Global Initiative's Annual Meeting.
Music To Their Ears
Wyclef Jean, the multi-platinum and Grammy award-winning artist, appeared at Saturday night's “Green the Block” launch party at Lux Lounge to push a campaign that aims to educate urban America in clean-energy opportunities.
MDC students, professors pick up garbage in Liberty City
Walking with plastic bags in their hands, student and professors from Miami Dade College's Carrie P. Meek Entrepreneurial Education Center picked up garbage to celebrate Green the Block National Day of Service on Sept. 11.
Aiming to Create Green Jobs and Returns
A new investment fund set to launch Friday hopes to cash in on the billions of dollars set aside by the government for environmentally friendly “green” projects.
