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Sustainable success in the US

Sara Wolcott | Wednesday 21st October 2009

Sustainable Development is about green jobs and a green economy. Thankfully, there are so many great organizations doing this work. I recently received an update of one of my personal favorites, Green For All, in the United States. This is a summary (taken directly from their website, I must admit) about some of what they've done in the past month or so. It's an impressive list - a real sustainable demonstraton of how non profits, for-profits, governments, banks, academics, and civil society is coming together to make ideas a reality.

Questions remain - questions not just for Green For All, but for the rest of the international community as it struggles with sustainable development.
How can these kinds of successes be replicated in other parts of the world? How can sustainable development come to integrate the green for all mentality - where all people benefit from a greener economy? Do these initiatives make sense in a developing world context?

* September 25, Green For All and Living Cities launched the Energy Efficiency Opportunity Fund at the Clinton Global Initiative. This fund will leverage an estimated $200 million to increase the energy-efficiency of thousands of buildings and create thousands of jobs.
* September 26, Green For All, the Hip Hop Caucus, and Wyclef Jean hosted a celebrity-studded launch party for Green The Block at the Congressional Black Caucus annual conference.
* September 30, The U.S Senate released the first draft of its historic climate bill, and it includes our provisions to expand access and opportunity for all!
* October 1, We partnered with the City of Portland to pass a groundbreaking Community Workforce Agreement that will create thousands of good paying clean-energy jobs, and be a national model for implementing Recovery Act investments.
* October 16, We launched a series of reports and resources to help people access investments from President Obama's Recovery Act.
* October 19, We testified at a public hearing on green jobs in Pittsburgh, hosted by Senator Arlen Specter.
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