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Nursery Time
Alan Hipólito, creator of green jobs for low-income people, answers readers' questions |
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03 Mar 2006 |
InterActivist |
| How can I and others help low-income people of color? -- Corey Paradis, Burlington, Vt. Well, that's a big question. Not to be too short, but I would ask them, the ones in your area. To me, and in my experience, and what I tell my students, the most important thing is to truly place yourself at the service of these communities. Seek out organizations serving or from these communitie ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, gardening, green jobs, InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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Work in Progress
Alan Hipólito, creator of green jobs for low-income people, answers Grist's questions |
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27 Feb 2006 |
InterActivist |
| What work do you do? I run a very small, very new nonprofit organization called Verde. What does your organization do? What, in a perfect world, would constitute "mission accomplished"? Verde offers a helping hand in the form of green jobs for low-income folks. Photo: iStockphoto. The mission of Verde is to increase the economic health of low-income and people-of-color com ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, gardening, green jobs, InterActivist, interview, placemaking, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics) |
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