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Greencorps Chicago: Stories from The Green Collar Economy
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Council Speaker to Unveil Policy on Food for the City: NYTimes
Seen earlier this month in the NYTimes: Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, is to unveil a long-term plan on food policy on Monday, a plan she says goes beyond the issues of trans fats and sugary sodas to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomberg administration, Christine C. Quinn, city council, eating, economy, food, food access, food policy, FoodWorks, government, health, jobs, New York City, production, transportation
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Street Farmer: NYTimes Weekend Magazine, July 5th
MILWAUKEE, USA: This weekends NYTimes Weekend Magazine includes a compelling 4 page feature on Will Allen, urban farming genius and Growing Power’s CEO and founder. Written by ELIZABETH ROYTE, the article is linked here. (…) Show Allen a pile of … Continue reading
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Tagged access to food, arugula, beehives, beets, castings, chard, cilantro, community, compost, composting, ecology, economy, employment, equity, farmers, food access, food desert, food justice, food production, food waste, greenhouse, grocery store, growing food, Growing Power, health, healthy, housing project, industrial food system, jobs, land, local food, lombicomposta, microbe, Milwaukee, nutrients, polyculture, processed food, restaurants, safet, safety, schools, soil, spinach, transportation, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban food system, wealth, Will Allen, work, worms
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Changing Food Policy Brings Greens to Low Income Neighborhoods
PHILADELPHIA, UNITED STATES: Changing zoning policy, increasing grant availability, and offering revolving-loan programs helps bring fresh food into low income neighborhoods. These Pennsylvania incentives are “aimed at improving access to nutritious food” in places with few grocery options. The NYTimes … Continue reading
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Tagged business, city, economy, financial, food, food industry, food policy, fufu flour, fund, grants, grocery, halal, healthy, imans, incentives, investment, Jamaica, jobs, loan, low income, money, Pennsylvania, philadelphia, poverty, red palm oil, reinvestment, revenue, supermarkets, taking for granted, tax abatements, zoning
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Documentary: East New York’s Urban Agriculture
From Urban Omnibus (which I first saw linked through City Farmer): East New York is a documentary video in five chapters, explaining how East New York’s urban agriculture movement developed. The five chapters of the video focus on Local Farmers, … Continue reading
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Tagged agricultural organizing, asset mapping, City Farmer, city government, city planning, documentary, East New York, eating, farmers, farmers markets, farming, food, health, jobs, land, land transfers, New York, Urban Agriculture, urban farmers, urban farms, video
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For Young Japanese, It’s Back to the Farm: NYTimes Global Business
YOKOSHIBAHIKARI, Japan: Rural Labor Squad, a government pilot program started recently by Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso’s stimulus plans, has so far helped place more than 2,400 Japanese youth into farming jobs, through a program that: ” (…) stems from … Continue reading
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Tagged agrculture, business, creative stimulus, economic recovery, economic stimulus, economy, farming, farms, government, Japan, japanese, job creation, job placement, jobs, land, pilot program, Rural Labor Squad, stimulus, work, workers, youth
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Permanent Culture: Tiffany Tong at UBC terrytalks
University of British Columbia: Redefining boundaries: Urban Agriculture: Tiffany Tong, from terrytalks on Vimeo., video 18min 06 sec.
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Tagged agronomy, British Columbia, Canada, carrots, catalyst, cities, City Farmer, Cuba, eating, empowerment, food, gender, global food system, Global North, Global South, growing food, Havana, India, jobs, Kenya, land, local food systems, milk, nutrition, permanent, rural, soil, technology, trash, Uganda, Urban Agriculture, urban farms, urgent, video, World War II
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Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States: Green For All
Yesterday from Green For All: “Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States” is a new report from the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PERI), commissioned by … Continue reading
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Tagged Center For American Progress, clean energy, download, economic growth, economy, education, employment, environment, green, Green For All, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, job creation, jobs, living standards, low income, NRDC, PERI, Political Economy Research Institute, poverty, prosperity, report, Robert Pollin, skills, standard of living, transportation, video, work
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Sumthin’s Gotta Give
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Tagged activism, Big Boi, economy, encouragement, felons, inspiration, jobs, Mary J. Blige, money, music, prices, Unites States, videos
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White House Pledges $50 Million in Seed Capital for Social Innovation Fund
From the White House blog, Michele Jolin talks about the creation of a Social Innovation Fund: Yesterday, the President announced that he would ask Congress in the FY2010 budget to provide $50 million in seed capital for his Social Innovation Fund, … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, budget, careers, change, communities, Congress, energy, entrepreneurs, environment, First Lady, fuding, fund, government, green economy, green jobs, health, health care, innovation, jobs, Michelle Obama, money, non-profit, pledge, policy, President Obama, programs, promise, schools, seed capital, skills, Social Innovation Fund, social problems, White House
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Growing Power Wins Major Kellogg Grant: Award Will Help Create Green Jobs, Aid Reeling Detroit
Milwaukee – May 4, 2009 – The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, one of the nation’s largest charitable organizations, has announced that Growing Power Inc. will receive $400,000 for a plan to create sustainable jobs among vulnerable urban populations. The project, called … Continue reading
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Tagged accounting, award, Chicago, community food system, Detroit, distribution, economy, energy systems, environment, environmental education, food, food processing, grant, green economy, green jobs, Growing Power, jobs, Kellogg Foundation, marketing, Milwaukee, packaging, renewable energy, sustainable, Urban Agriculture, urban farming, urban farms, Will Allen
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Van Jones on Green Rooftops, Green Jobs
Van Jones, author and activist, and recently appointed Special Adviser to Green Jobs on the White House Council for Environmental Quality, visits DC Green Works to talk with Sara Loveland about the environmental benefits of green rooftops, and the opportunity … Continue reading
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Tagged construction, DC Green Works, Earth Day, environment, food, food chain, government, green jobs, green roof, growing food, herbs, home builders, jobs, President Obama, rooftop garden, urban design, Van Jones, White House
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Give Us City Gardens, Not Just Grocery Stores
An editorial from today’s New York Times urges the first lady to take her efforts for community vegetable gardens one step further. Michelle Obama’s recent pitch for fresh vegetables and her avowed interest in community gardens have given new life … Continue reading
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Tagged cities, city planning, community gardens, cultivate, food, food miles, grocery, grocery stores, grow, harvest, health, jobs, local food, local food systems, Michelle Obama, sustainability, Urban Agriculture, urban gardens, urban policy
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Van Jones Profile: Global Green
Don’t know Van Jones? Let the video above get you introduced.
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Tagged alternative economy, economy, green economy, jobs, profile, sustainability, Van Jones, video
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Green Jobs Guru Van Jones Named to Obama’s Cabinet: Alternet
(Tuesday, March 10th) See the full story on AlterNet, linked here.
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Tagged Alternet, environment, green economy, green jobs, jobs, justice, Obama cabinet, sustainability, Van Jones
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Workers Agree to Go with Less
The Boston Globe writes that Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is “trying something revolutionary, radical, maybe even impossible.” How far will workers agree to go without to save jobs?
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Tagged alternative economy, Boston, CEO, economy, hospital, imagination, jobs, Massachusets, sustainable
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Van Jones to Advise Obama on Green Jobs
From Wednesday’s edition of Democracy Now: The Obama administration has tapped author and activist Van Jones to become a special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation. Jones is expected to start work next week. He is author of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Democracy Now, economy, green economy, inequality, jobs, President Obama, Van Jones
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Workers Without Borders: NYTimes
An op-ed piece by JENNIFER GORDON in today’s NYTimes: Workers without Borders
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Tagged borders, economy, immigration, jobs, Mexico, op-ed, policy, raids, United States, work, workers
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G7 Agrees to Support Stimulus Bill
As the New York Times reported today, Timothy F. Geithner spent Friday and Saturday speaking at a Group of 7 meeting (meeting of “First-world” global economic superpowers and their finance ministers, in Italy, promoting the new Obama led US bill … Continue reading
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Tagged crisis, debt relief, economy, G7, jobs, money, Obama team, stimulus bill, Treasury Secretary, unemployment
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Literally Speaking: Transform problems instead of burying them
The old-century question still looms: where to “throw away” all this “waste?” Scenario one, the old method: Dump industrial boat-loads of agriculture waste into the ocean, slowing the decomposition rate of the waste in the dark, cold, oxygen-deprived underwater environment. … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, carbon, compost, disaster, dumping, ecology, economy, farming, Growing Power, jobs, marine life, Mushishi, mushrooms, mycoremediation, New York Times, nitrogen, ocean, Pleurotus ostreatus, politics, pollution, President Obama, science news, soil, Urban Agriculture, Urban food systems, waste, Will Allen
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