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The culmination of a month’s worth of event organizing came this weekend on Saturday, September 27th, 2008. This day was a national day of action in which environmental and social justice organizers throughout the nation (there was at least one event in each of the 50 states)...
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With the support of T.R.U.E/GREEN IMAGE Landscaping, the City of Chicago Department of Environment and North Lawndale Employment Network, "Green and Sexy Edutainment" was one of the first of many amazing events to mark the beginning of our transition to a clean energy economy....
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Who knew that green jobs events - even in the pouring rain - would be this exciting? The best part of the group of about a hundred Baltimore citizens was how excited everyone was, ranging from Zaire in her green hard hat running around collecting PowerVote pledges to Bill Bar...
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Colorado Youth Corps Association supporting the movement for green-collar jobs now!
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The youth engaged in a useful discussion around preserving the environment! They recognize the importance of green jobs and were excited to incorporate other green methods into their everyday lives.
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This is a picture in front of Gallie Hall. The event took place on a square that sits right in front of this building, which was formerly used as City Hall.
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We had over 40 people gather at Capitol Heights Presbyterian Church for a conversation co-sponsored by Jefferson Unitarian Church of Golden envisioning a green jobs for all future and steps we can take towards the vision. A significant percentage of our group are involved in ...
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The LA Green Corps (www.lagreencorps.org) came together with several community volunteers for the Green For All Day of Action, the National Public Lands Day, and the Service Nation Day on September 27th to do some work in New Orleans' historic Lafayette Square Park. One crew w...
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It was my birthday, so I decided to make it a semi-political event by taking a photo with our "I'm Ready" sign. Some folks went up to my office to sign the petition, too. All in all, it was really fun and we are sending in our photo.
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Local Motive @ SOLAR was as fly as could be...we had vendors from various economic and green justice groups like Co-op Denver, who talked about cooperatives, how to start them & permaculture community gardens. The Mile High Business Alliance spoke on local sustainable busines...
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Will I got some more input on some other points of inturst and had fun there seen a lot of old friends and some new friends. I got my point across now what to do with it. !I DON'T KNOW! No points.
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Our event was hosted by United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta's Loudermilk Conference Center. We created an educational forum filled with presentations, video, speakers, raffles and great home grown food, served on china and glassware in an effort to reduce our carbon footprint ...
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September 27 and 28 was a wonderful busy weekend with the Green Jobs events. I spoke Saturday night about green jobs and the climate at Life Alive in Lowell. It felt really good to talk about green jobs and their critical role in helping to solve our social, climate, and econo...
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I am really sorry; because the weather was so crappy I though maybe it was cancelled.
It would be great to reach someone by cell in cases like last weekend for last minute
weather threats.
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Oh it was awesome and awe-inspiring!
Such a great day! Not only did we help the community but we helped ourselves learn.
I can't possibly type everything that happened, however it was a great day and I hope everyone who attended learned something valuable, both in their hear...
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