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Cities Cultivate 2 Types Of Green
Squatting on the roof of a row house with a panoramic view of the sewage plants and warehouses that surround the South Bronx, James Wells sounds like a tree-hugger. He photographs the progress of seedlings he planted on the roof, one of his first "green roof" installations, and explains how roofs covered by soil and plants, more trees on the ground and cleaner parks are key to fighting the pollution that overwhelms the neighborhood. As he speaks, a pungent rotting smell emanates from a sewage plant.
The Dream Reborn
Join us in Memphis, TN the weekend of April 4 – 6, 2008 for the 40th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. We’ll not only celebrate his extraordinary life, but also present positive solutions from today's generation of visionary leaders. Special emphasis will be placed on ecological solutions that can heal the Earth while bringing jobs, justice, wealth and health to vulnerable people.
Clinton Global Initiative
Clinton Global Initiative is a non-partisan catalyst for action, bringing together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges. At its center is the Annual Meeting, held in New York each September coinciding with the U.N. General Assembly. This is a working session designed to provide insights into global problems for the purpose of enabling productive action in CGI’s four areas of focus: education, energy and climate change, global health and poverty alleviation.
The Green-Collar Solution
Van Jones has been on a crusade to help disadvantaged communities understand why they would be the biggest beneficiaries of a greener America.
Bring Eco-Power To The People
A few years ago, Oakland-based human-rights activist Van Jones came to a realization. If the U.S. accelerated the transition to a cleaner economy, millions of jobs in green construction and alternative energy could be created. Those jobs--call them green collar--were exactly what unemployed residents of cities like Oakland needed.
Green Energy Meets Jobs
Even activists can stun themselves by speaking up. For a decade, Van Jones, a Yale-trained attorney and cofounder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, was mostly known in the Bay Area for fighting to reform police and youth prisons. In recent years he and other activists have pushed for inner-city job training in the solar, wind, and other energy-saving industries. In June, Oakland became the first city in the nation to create a "Green Jobs Corps" program. A green coalition in nearby Richmond recently installed solar panels on a home, employing at-risk trainees.
Environmentalism With A Social Conscience
To counteract what he perceives as twenty years of racial segregation in the environmental movement, Van Jones said he envisions a world in which "a green wave lifts all boats."
Green Jobs Will Clean Up The Economy, Communities
Van Jones can command a stage. Whispering about pollution in poor neighborhoods, he might bring an audience close to tears. Then he'll pack the next thought with a wicked grin, rocking the room with laughter. The Yale-trained attorney from Tennessee has campaigned against police brutality and youth imprisonment with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights he co-founded 11 years ago in Oakland, Calif. But his recent push to create a "green-collar" job corps has catapulted Jones to the national stage.
House Energy Bill To Boost Green Job Training
The House of Representatives passed a sweeping energy bill Saturday that included a provision directing millions of dollars toward training a "green" workforce The Green Jobs Act of 2007 would authorize as much as $125 million a year for the national and state program to train workers in areas such as biofuel development, energy efficient buildings, renewable power, solar panel installation and energy efficient cars.
Oakland Plugs Into Clean Tech As Job Generator
When Van Jones gazes out at Oakland, he sees green -- a green economy fed by growing clean-tech companies and Oakland residents trained to build wind farms, install solar panels or weatherize windows. At the same time, said Jones, who helped draft a plan to develop a Green Jobs Corps for the city, Oakland can become a worldwide leader in tying together the environment, the economy and social justice. On June 19, the Oakland City Council earmarked $250,000 for the program assembled by the Oakland Apollo Alliance and supported by labor unions like the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. The money could seed private contributions and federal job-training money, Jones said, to launch the program early next year.
A Van With A Plan: An Interview With Van Jones
Big business has finally realized that there's lots of money to be made in the transition to a clean-energy economy. Van Jones wants to make sure working-class and minority Americans realize it too. Though his work is focused on Oakland, CA -- he successfully fought for a "Green Jobs Corps" youth training program in the city and is pushing to make Oakland a "Green Enterprise Zone" -- Jones is seen as a rising national star whose ideas could bridge the gap between movements that have too long regarded each other with wary skepticism. When I reached him by phone, he emphasized the potential for a broad-based green coalition and chided "eco-elites" for failing to reach out.
Oakland Gives Nod To 'Green Collar' Vision
Oakland may become the nation's first city with a "Green Jobs Corps" of workers trained in such areas as bio-fuels manufacturing and solar panel installation in an anti-poverty program that won significant city approval Tuesday. After some 150 people from various nonprofits and government agencies rallied in front of City Hall for "green jobs" creation, the public works committee of the Oakland City Council voted to ask the full council to provide $250,000 to start the program.
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.
Bioneers 2007 Conference
Explore the forefront of positive change in deeply inspiring plenary talks with visionary thinkers and doers from wildly varied fields, cultures and walks of life.
Power Shift 2007
This fall, youth from across the country will convene in Washington, DC to change the climate on global warming in the United States. Together, we’ll create a shift in the fight for a clean and just energy future.
Gov. Gregoire announces bill to fight climate change, create jobs
SEATTLE -- Gov. Chris Gregoire on Monday proposed legislation to direct the state Department of Ecology to design a regional cap and trade market for carbon emissions, require annual emissions reporting by all major generators of greenhouse gases, and create training programs for "green collar jobs."
The Evergreen State in more than name
NO more good intentions. Washington state is committed to a purposeful response to climate change.
Legislature: One serious hope
Washington state is taking climate change much more seriously. That's a critical step to improve our environment, health and future. At least as much as any environmental control action we recall, it's also an immensely hopeful, optimistic action.
GREEN FOR ALL RELEASES UNPRECEDENTED GUIDE: “GREEN-COLLAR JOBS IN AMERICA’S CITIES”
OAKLAND, CA – Green For All, in partnership with the Apollo Alliance, Center for American Progress, and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, today released a guide to help cities across America develop strategies to spur the creation of green-collar jobs and opportunity in their communities.
GREEN FOR ALL PRESENTS ‘THE DREAM REBORN’
On April 4-6, Green For All, whose mission is to build an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty, will bring organizations and leaders from communities across the nation together for an extraordinary experience: The Dream Reborn. The three-day conference, set to take place at the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, TN, will be a potent, unforgettable event that will commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the 40th anniversary of his assassination and present positive solutions for social and environmental equity from today’s generation of visionary leaders.
