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What Is Green?

Not so long ago, "green" was a term used just by environmentalists and activists. But these days "green" is everywhere. All you have to do is pick up a magazine, turn on the TV, look at the newspaper, or go to a movie theater to see that "green" has gone mainstream.

 
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Green For All: Ella Baker Center Launches a Bold National Initiative
The Ella Baker Center is proud and excited to introduce a brand new spin-off initiative: Green For All.
Ella Baker launches Green For All on September 26, 2007 at a special gathering called the Clinton Global Initiative. Former President Bill Clinton convenes this event annually in New York City. It is a high-profile meeting of the brightest minds in politics, business and the nonprofit sector who come together to catalyze change on a global scale.

Green For All's goal is simple -- to secure $1 billion in funding for green-collar job training in order to lift 250,000 people out of poverty across the country. Green For All will be an organization unto itself, and will build on the successes of the Ella Baker Center's green jobs campaign to grow a national green-collar jobs movement.

In 2007, with a tiny staff and limited budget, Ella Baker Center and our community of supporters have accomplished so much: We helped pass the Green Jobs Act in the U.S. House of Representatives, which authorized $125 million for a federal green job-training program -- including $25 million specifically allocated for "pathways out of poverty" programs. Weeks before, we secured $250,000 from the City of Oakland to fund the Oakland Green Jobs Corps, a job-training demonstration program that can serve as a model for the nation. MORE>>>