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Green jobs and inner-city youth

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:40:00 -0500

Attorney and social activist Van Jones jump-started a training program to teach inner-city youth in the San Francisco area how to install solar panels.

Anon

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:26:01 -0500

Some fact checking is required. Oakland was not the first city to have a Green Job Corps Program. The District of Columbia started an alternative model Green Summer Job Corps with it's Department of the Environment before Oakland's was created.
DC is really making strides toward being the greening city - and capital city - on the planet.

Julia Bonds

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:01:18 -0500

Thanks Van Jones-you are my hero!
I am a white Appalachian American and the only issue that can save us and bring us all together is Green Jobs. Green For All. Green is the only color that we should be concerned with. There will be nothing left for our children if we don't switch to renewable energy now! Green is the color that will bring the world together.