Green For All will be an advocacy, community education and technical assistance organization. Its role will be to create public will, legislation and public-private partnerships to ensure that people from disadvantaged backgrounds find work and opportunity in the green economy.

Green For All will work on three main fronts:

National Advocacy: Green For All will spur action in the federal government and the private sector to ensure that the United States has an abundant supply of well-trained "green-collar" workers and entrepreneurs, focusing on those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Technical Assistance: In cities where advocates for the disadvantaged seek "green-collar" job training and other opportunities, Green For All will help align business, labor unions, community organizations and educational institutions to support their efforts.

Public Education: Green For All will impact news coverage, produce videos, host convenings, create advocacy toolkits, employ new media and anchor a Web 2.0 strategy for shaping debate, organizing discussion and sharing best practices.

Just as there are no throw-away species and no throw-away ecosystems, there are also no throw-away neighborhoods and no throw-away people. In order for humanity to overcome the challenge of the climate crisis, we need to engage the creativity and power of everyone on the planet. To this end, Green For All will work for equal protection from the perils of climate change and equal access to the promise of the emerging green economy as the United States reinvents itself.

For more information about Green For All, visit the new website, www.greenforall.org.