Events Keep Rolling In!
Here at the Green For All office, we're just beginning get in photos from Green Jobs Now events around the country. And the results are amazing! We'll keep you updated as the events keep rolling in from nearly all 50 states. Here's a few highlights for now:
Here at the Green For All office, we're just beginning get in photos from Green Jobs Now events around the country. And the results are amazing! We'll keep you updated as the events keep rolling in from nearly all 50 states. Here's a few highlights for now:
From Chester, Pennsylvania, Desire Grover writes, "The event was a heart warming success. Community leaders, Developers, Architects and Teachers throughout Chester attended along with young adults who just wanted to be in the know about where the, potentially new, jobs might be."
In White Plains, New York an event put on by Community Housing Innovations (CHI) rallied nearly 50 people in support of a green economy. “Green Jobs are good jobs and can reverse the erosion of construction jobs in America,” said CHI Executive Director Alexander Roberts. “We need educated carpenters, crane operators, plumbers and heating contractors, not to mention solar panel installers—all of which pay higher than those in our service economy.”
And it's not just solar panels going up on rooftops. In San Francisco, CA, community members gathered at Glide Church to celebrate the opening of a new rooftop garden. The garden was planted by children in the church's youth program. Many of them turned out for the event and called for green jobs.
They'll be lots of new green projects happening in New Mexico thanks to the work of green jobs organizers there. In Santa Fe, Santa Fe Alliance and ¡YouthWorks! celebrated the success of an innovative pilot "Green Collar" jobs program. The City of Santa Fe contributed approximately $162,000 toward this pilot, making this the second largest municipal commitment to a green collar jobs program in the country, second to Oakland, California.
Thanks to these great events and many more today's media coverage has been phenomenal! Here are some of the highlights:
New York Times: "Green the Bailout"
The Flint Journal: "A Green Flint"
The Times Picayune: "Rally Promotes Green Jobs"
Congratulations to all of the event organizers and everyone who came out today to celebrate the new green economy. Keep checking the green jobs now website for more event updates!
