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This event was held in conjunction with the second annual Waterfront Festival. Although the weather seemed unpredictable we still had a good crowd that was interested in learning about the importance of green jobs. Many signed the Green Jobs Petition and left feeling informe...
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From 4-6pm South of the Campanile on Iowa State's campus 1Sky, Power Vote, Oxfam, and Greenpeace volunteers hosted "Rock the Future: Green Jobs Now," with 4 bands (including a bag piper), 3 speakers, and about 60 audience members. Speaking was: Andrew Hug the Environment Iowa ...
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We named the event "Work Green, Work Local: Keep Iowa's Jobs," and held it at 11am. It was a press conference/rally on the West Side Steps of the State Capitol Building with two giant pictures 6'x3' tall: one of the future of a wind turbine from Clipper Wind, and one of the pa...
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This event was quite special for me because I my 16 year old daughter came with me. She was beaming with joy as we marched to the capitol and chanted GREEN JOBS NOW. I am sure I am not alone when I say that the #1 reason I am pushing for environmental improvements and awarenes...
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We gathered on a drizzly Saturday morning in the Fellowship Hall of the Concord Unitarian Church. The Church Social Justice and Green Sanctuary Committee each had a table, as did 1Sky and Green Concord. Brooke and Drew Arthur brought supplies from their daycare, and the kids...
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Appalachian State University's very first Green Jobs Fair was held today. It was a great success! We had an impressive turn out of energized students and employers, and the event went off without a hitch. Students ranged from people who had majors related sustainability, to th...
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Youth Volunteers from the Youth Volunteer Corps joined Watershed Management Group's Water Harvesting Co-op on a project building terraces along the hillside of one of the co-op member's households. The hill, with its steep 45 degree slope, had been experiencing nasty erosion,...
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I now have an edited DVD, but to whom do I deliver it. There seems to be a difficulty sending a video file from the edited dvd.
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The national office of The Apollo Alliance has been spreading the word about Green Jobs Now through our expansive list serve. Many of our state and local chapters are having events around the country. Those of us in the bay area will be popping up at neighboring events.
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After Sunday services at our local UU church, we showed and discussed the DVD of Van Jones' keynote speech in June 2008 at the Unitarian-Universalist General Assembly in Florida. We talked about local organizations with similar goals that we could connect to, including Sustain...
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Vermonters gathered in Burlington's Battery Park to raise awareness to 350.org and to let our leaders know we're ready for green jobs in Vermont. University of Vermont students got up on stage to say what green jobs meant to them and three of the candidates for governor signed...
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More than 50 Southwest Florida residents participated in two national actions - GREEN JOBS NOW and STOP WAR ON IRAN - by standing along the main commercial thorofare that goes through Fort Myers. We held signs and banners for nearly two hours, and signed petitions. Hundreds of...
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We had some great guest speakers, did video testimonials, and made amazing art projects out of recycled materials.
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We Want a Green Economy to Replace the Pollution Based Economy! We Want Green Job Ownership Among Low-Income Communities and Communities of Color!
We had demonstrations of green retrofit materials including solar panels
We had 65 youth, age 17-24, retrofitting a home in th...
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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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