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Green jobs for real people: The story behind the recovery numbers 0
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago 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.
Green Jobs Now

Weatherizing Portland 0
Posted 4 weeks ago 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.
Polluting and young minds

Sen. Kerry to youth on climate bill: We’re gonna need your help 2
Posted 4 weeks ago On a conference call Tuesday night with young climate activists, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) hinted 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.
Opportunity, fully funded 0
Posted 2 months ago Today, 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.
This 9/11, urban communities remember and serve 0
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago By Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Rev. Lennox Yearwood
In honor of those who died on 9/11, community groups are holding more than 100 Green the Block service events around the country.
Four years after Katrina: Lessons from the Gulf Coast 1
Posted 2 months, 4 weeks ago
What can New Orleans tell us about how to rebuild, revitalize, and recover?
Listen up

A new sound, a new economy 0
Posted 3 months, 2 weeks ago
People often ask what the environment has to do with poverty and why communities of color are getting so active in the fight against climate change. Earlier this week, Green For All released a video that gets to the heart of the matter.
Take notes: This could be on the test!

Lessons from the coal industry: Using vs. engaging communities of color 0
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
This week revealed some of the best and worst moments in the role of people of color in the struggle over our nation’s energy and economic future.
Putting the economy in the green

New studies tout the economic benefits of green jobs 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
Investments in clean energy -- such as those encouraged by the American Clean Energy and Security Act -- would produce several times as many jobs as the same amount of money spent on traditional fossil fuels, according to new studies released Thursday by a coalition of environmental groups and research institutes.

Lower-income Americans in particular would benefit, according to a report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, which was commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Green for All.

Upgrading the U.S. economy to rely less on fossil fuels would create a surge of manufacturing and construction jobs that would include renovating homes and buildings to be more energy efficient, tapping clean energy sources such as wind and solar to produce more electricity, and building better transit systems and other infrastructure improvements.
American Clean Energy and Security Act will drive clean energy investments

News flash: More jobs and lower energy costs good for low-income Americans 0
Posted 5 months, 1 week ago
TO: U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, Heritage Foundation and other industry groups predicting the end of life as we know if America takes action on climate change

FROM: Natural Resources Defense Council, Political Economic Research Institute/University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Green for All and the Center For American Progress

Subject: Inconvenient New Study Debunks Your Scare Tactics about the American Clean Energy and Security Act

It's time to face facts. You are just wrong when you forecast massive job losses, economic dislocation and harm to low-income Americans if the U.S. takes action on energy/green jobs issues. Contrary to what you've been suggesting, it turns out that "down is not up" and "night is not day": More green jobs resulting from tackling climate change is a good thing for America - including lower-income households.