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On Friday April 17, 2008 the green build open house celebration will be held in Kaibeto, Arizona on the Navajo Indian reservation. The strawbale house built by the Indigenous Community Enterprises, a non-profit corporation located in Flagstaff, Arizona, is the first of a kind...
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We had a most successful event building a beautiful, and most unique cob oven at Riverfront Farms, an urban farm in Spokane, Washington. During this event a wide range of community members were able to help construct this earthen oven and to learn from natural builder Eva Mill...
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Scrappy Green made a commitment to clean up legal tire dumps our goal is to remove 300,000 illegally dumped or used tires, the collected tires will be recycled and used to create eco-safe playgrounds, mulch for flowerbeds, flooring for school gymnasiums and outdoor tracks and ...
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Yes, New Bedford IS READY for Green Solutions. New Bedford's Green
Solutions Day of Action took place on Sunday Oct. 5, 2008 at New Wave
Café, 143 N. Front St. from 1-5 pm. There was excitement in the air
throughout the day as people heard about sustainable best practices
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We had a great time educating grassroots style! For a conservative, non-green area, we had quite the community turnout!
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It was an awesome event, everyone did a great job, and it was great seeing so many people there. When I was a child it was already evident that our planet was in trouble and I knew that I would witness something incredible in my lifetime... people fighting to save the Earth. N...
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We had discussions of why we need a sustainable economy, how we can have a stable economy, & that we can do this now. No more worrying how to bring in new jobs but lets get on it! Assemblyman Tim Gordon came, Alex Betke of the Coxsackie chairman with lots of affiliated groups ...
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The Green Jobs Now day coincidentally was the same day as the senior class picnic. We set up a little side table and put out petitions and half-way through the picnic we asked everyone, parents and seniors, to gather for a photo
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It was a busy day in downtown Stuart Florida so the group of us that showed up fro the event walked around and talked with dozens of people about calling on congress to support Green Jobs. We got nearly 100 people to sign up to send a postcard to their congressman Tim Mahoney...
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In Las Vegas, Democracia U.S.A., 1Sky Nevada, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, and the Nevada Conservation League partnered together to bring a Green Jobs Now Forum, a panel-style discussion of green jobs and the green economy with guest speakers local elected offici...
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I preached a sermon using the theme of our District Conference - Common Ground, Solid Ground - and the illustration of the Green Jobs movement.
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On Saturday October 4th and October 11th the Western New York Apollo Alliance helped lower income home owners weatherize their homes. We had 70 volunteers and several area elected officials help reduce the energy use in older homes in Buffalo. Volunteers included students from...
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Latinos Go Green (or "Latinos Por La Tierra") is a project of Democracia U.S.A. to focus on environmental voter education and community organizing focusing on Hispanics through days of action on September 27, 2008 in Las Vegas, Miami, and Philadelphia. Together with the natio...
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The event was a huge success. A coalition of organizations, led by Courtney Brigham, helped to put on a very powerful display and program. Not only did we have a huge blow up globe on fire, but we also had our green hardhats, petitions, and one attendee brought a pole to sho...
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We set up a table at the Last Thursday Arts Walk on Alberta Street in NE Portland. We had green hardhats, goggles, gloves, and vests available and took photos of people holding our "I'm Ready" sign. We also collecting Power Vote pledges. A lot of people didn't know what gre...
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On October 11th the City of Newark along with a group of 12 local young men came together to install 2,500 SQ FT of a reflective/ cool roof to show that they are ready for GREEN JOBS NOW. These young men volunteered to receive training to install this roof after realizing tha...
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VAN'S NEW BOOK
Van Jones has released his first book, The Green Collar Economy. Check out Van's plan for solving our economic and environmental problems -- at the same time.
