"Oakland: There Is a Green There There"
"Gertrude Stein famously said about her home town, Oakland, California, that 'there isn’t any there there.' Surely she would have a different opinion if she were there today and, in fact, many green urban advocates like us wish we were there."
Read the story at treehugger.com here.
"On the third Thursday of September 2006, in a college auditorium in Oakland, California, 300 people came together to launch a new movement: a campaign for 'green-collar jobs' as a path to economic and social recovery for low-income communities."
Read the story in Yes Magazine here.
Read about the Oakland Apollo Challenge here.
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