| Merged into | Dream Corps |
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| Formation | 2007 |
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| Location |
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Parent organization | Dream Corps |
| Affiliations | Dream Corps TECH,Dream Corps JUSTICE |
| Website | www |
Green For All is an organization whose stated goal is to build agreen economy while simultaneously lifting citizens out of poverty. It is a DC-based group that brings unions and environmentalists together to push for anti-poverty measures and a clean-energy economy. Green For All was co-founded byVan Jones, former head of theElla Baker Center for Human Rights andMajora Carter former head ofSustainable South Bronx,[1] and was officially launched in September 2007 at theClinton Global Initiative.[2]
Green For All was co-founded byVan Jones andMajora Carter[1] after the two had become increasingly concerned with issues of poverty and crime, as well as the lack of a solid infrastructure for"green" jobs. Rather than approach each issue separately, Jones decided to combine the two in a more unified vision and business model.[3] The organization launched in September 2007 at theClinton Global Initiative, when Jones appeared to announce Green for All's commitment to securing one billion dollars by 2012 to create "green pathways out of poverty" for 250,000 people in theUnited States. Jones also added that theElla Baker Center would continue to run a "Green-Collar Jobs Campaign" regionally and statewide in California.[4]
A major component of the Green For All movement isjob security:[5]
You can't take a building you want to weatherize, put it on a ship to China and then have them do it and send it back. So we are going to have to put people to work in this country —weatherizing millions of buildings, putting up solar panels, constructing wind farms. Those green-collar jobs can provide a pathway out of poverty for someone who has not gone to college.
According to a March 26, 2008, press release fromUnited Press International (UPI), the green-collar job sector is growing in the United States, and could include more than 14 million workers by 2017. Although it is difficult to pin down what constitutes a green-collar job, theAmerican Solar Energy Society said there are around 8.5 million U.S. jobs that involve Earth-friendly enterprises and renewable energy sources. This figure could grow by 5 million in the next 10 years according to Jerome Ringo of the Apollo Alliance.[6]
Green For All and other green-energy businesses have been receiving increased press by major publications such as theNew York Times,[7]USA Today,[8]Business Week[9] andThe Nation,[10] indicating that the growth potential cited by UPI is picking up steam in the public sector as well.
In an interview onCNN on April 21, 2016, hours after the musicianPrince's death, Van Jones revealed on CNN that Prince had secretly contributed to the funding of Green for All.[11][12]
In January 2020, Green for All, along with other environmental organizations, groups and individuals, urged a Boston-area transit agency to transition into electric buses and commit to only deploying electric buses by 2030.[13]
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