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Albany, NY

Green Jobs/Green Homes New York Will \"Green\" One Million Homes and Create Thousands of Good Jobs

The Green Jobs/Green Homes NY program is a landmark statewide initiative to establish a revolving capital fund and make one million homes energy efficient in five years.  This program will significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions, save families money on their energy bills, and create tens of thousands of green, living-wage jobs.

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Albany, NY

New York passes municipal clean-energy loan legislation

The Senate and Assembly of New York passed landmark legislation empowering communities to launch Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loan programs. 

PACE will enable municipalities to leverage federal funds to provide financing to commercial and residential property owners for energy-efficiency retrofits and renewable energy systems.  Property owners can then opt into these programs and reap an immediate savings on their energy costs, repay the loans through an annual charge on their property tax bill.


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American Samoa

American Samoa Performs Weatherization for Working People

American Samoa will use its Recovery Act funds to weatherize approximately 225 homes over the next three years.  Homes occupied by the elderly, the disabled or families with children will be given priority.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Weatherization Assistance Program $287,804

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Anchorage, AK

Alaska\'s Cook Inlet Tribal Council receives more than $67,000 for green job preparation

Alaska\'s Cook Inlet Tribal Council will receive more than $67,000 in job training money. The funding will help support the growth of green jobs and the expansion of training programs for the local indigenous community.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Corporation for National and Community Service grant, $476,950

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Atlanta, GA

Georgia Partners with AmeriCorps to Create Green-Collar Program

In Georgia, AmeriCorps is using Recovery Act Funds to finance the Georgia Recovery Corps, a one-year special initiative that focuses, in part, on providing Georgians with green construction experience and training.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Corporation for National and Community Service grant, $476,950

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Atlanta, GA

Let\'s Raise a Million

\"Video\"Let’s Raise a Million, founded by students at Morehouse college, seeks to bring energy-efficiency and education to low-income neighborhoods in Atlanta.  The project, now run by students in 8 Atlanta colleges, connects the dots in the communities at greatest risk to climate change impacts.

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Austin, TX

In Austin, Recovery Act Puts At-Risk Youth to Work Building Green Homes

\"Image\"The Recovery Act is helping American Youth Works expand its award-winning, project-based education program Casa Verde Builders (CVB).

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Leveraging various Recovery Act funds for youth, service and conservation totaling $1.16 million

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Baltimore, MD

Civic Works Creates Green Jobs in Weatherization and Brownfield Remediation

\"Image\"The Baltimore-based urban service corps, Civic Works, is creating green jobs through weatherization, green construction, landscaping and brownfield remediation.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - WAP, CDBG, YouthBuild

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Baton Rouge, LA

Louisiana \'Leads By Example\' with State-Wide Retrofits on University Buildings

Louisiana is using some of its State Energy Program funds for a “Lead By Example” program that will fund energy-efficiency retrofits of state university buildings.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - State Energy Program, $71 million

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Bay Area, CA

Federal Recovery Act Dollars Create Hundreds of Bay Area Jobs

\"Image\"The California Department of Toxic Substances Control and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced $5 million in grants and low-interest loans that will help bring nearly 500 jobs to the Bay Area ...

Recovery Act Funding Stream - $1.8 million from EPA + revolving loan funds

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Berkeley, CA

Berkeley\'s Rising Sun Energy Center Provides Jobs, Training and Retrofits

\"Video\"Rising Sun provides low-to-no-cost retrofit services to Bay Area households, with a focus on serving under-resourced households:  moderate- and low-income residents, renters, and non-English speakers.

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Berkeley, CA

Berkeley Leads with City-Wide Voluntary Sustainable Energy Financing District

\"Image\"Berkeley FIRST is a solar financing program in the City of Berkeley. It provides property owners an opportunity to borrow money from the City’s Sustainable Energy Financing District to install solar photovoltaic electric systems and allows the cost to be repaid over 20 years through an annual special tax on their property tax bill.

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Boston, Massachusetts

Massachusetts\'s $1.4 billion Energy Efficiency Plan

\"Image\"This plan will create high-quality jobs in the state’s highest-unemployment communities, and provide up-front financing so low-to-moderate income residents can save money and do deep energy-efficiency retrofits on their homes.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, $1.4 billion

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Boston, Massachusetts

JFYNetWorks Trains Green-collar Workers

\"Image\"In 2008, the cities of Boston and Cambridge adopted programs to make buildings energy-efficient. JFYNetWorks responded immediately by meeting with energy service companies to determine what green positions needed to be filled.  With the support of a $200,000 state Pathways out of Poverty grant, JFY created a new solar installation and assembly training program.

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Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Goes Green for High Quality Green-Collars Jobs

\"Video\"Boston is using $6.5 million in Recovery Act funds to reduce the city’s greenhouse gas emissions by 40,000 metric tons annually while creating 100 high-quality green-collar jobs.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, $6.5 million

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Boulder, Colorado

On the Front Line in the Fight Against Dirty Energy: Veterans Green Jobs

Based in Boulder, Colorado, Veterans Green Jobs trains veterans in home weatherization and efficiency.  The organization launched its first class of 15 trainees in April of 2009, for a nine week Green Jobs Training Program.

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Butte, MT

Montana Energy Corps Members Delivering Solutions for Pocketbooks and the Environment

A new AmeriCorps project in Montana is placing members throughout the state to implement solutions for sustainable energy consumption.

Energy Corps members provide hands-on energy assistance to underserved Montana communities.  They perform energy audits, install energy conservation and weatherization measures, and help design, install and maintain a variety of sustainable energy systems. 

Members also provide energy awareness and education, encouraging individuals, families and small businesses to take proactive measures to address energy consumption to save on their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprints.

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Carson City, NV

Nevada Making Diverse Investments in Energy Efficiency

\"Image\"Nevada is covering a lot of ground with its Recovery Act investments.  It is using Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program funds to support local governments\' energy-efficiency initiatives, install energy-management systems ...

Recovery Act Funding Stream - EECBG - $9,593,500

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Cheyenne, WY

Wyoming Gets Boost in Funding for Local Governments, Tribal Groups, and Community Organizations

\"Image\"Wyoming will use $9.5 million in Recovery Act funds to make a wide range of facilities more energy efficient, including facilities owned by local governments, tribal entities, non-profit organizations and joint powers boards.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, $9.5 million

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Chicago, Illinois

Job training for homeless and low-income individuals in Chicago

\"Video\"Growing Home provides job training for homeless and low-income individuals in Chicago through a social enterprise business based on organic agriculture.


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Chicago, Illinois

Greencorps Chicago Prepares Ex-Offenders for the Green Economy

\"Video\"Greencorps Chicago bridges the most economically disadvantaged people with the Chicago area\'s nascent green economy. 

Greencorps Chicago provides paid nine-month training programs in five lines of work: landscaping, weatherization, environmental remediation, electronics recycling, and household hazardous materials processing. 

Over its fifteen-plus years, Greencorps Chicago has succeeded especially in involving people leaving the prison system and others with strong barriers to employment.  By providing a stable source of income in its four days-a-week training program, and a creditable background in high-demand skills, Greencorps has helped roughly 80% of its graduates move on to steady employment in the industry of their training.

Every year, about 40 people graduate the program, with about 20 people working part time as staff and instructors.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - U.S. Department of Labor Green Jobs Capacity Building Award, $100,000


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Denver, CO

Recovery Act Fuels Mile High Youth Corps Expansion

\"Video\"Denver-based Mile High Youth Corps (MHYC) places nearly 200 youth each year into green service jobs in land and water conservation, energy-efficiency, and construction.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Corporation for National and Community Service - $832,831

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Denver, Colorado

Union Station Redevelopment Project creating good, green jobs

In downtown Denver, a mixed-use redevelopment of land around historic Union Station will create good, green jobs and community benefits.  Union Station will be the hub of FasTracks, the expanded metro light rail system. 

As a result of three years of organizing by the Campaign for Responsible Development (CRD) and FRESC, private developers on the project have agreed to \"LEED\" green building standards, living wages and prevailing wages for service workers, and targeted apprenticeship utilization goals for construction jobs on the site. 

The CRD is still working to secure affordable rental housing on the site.


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Detroit, MI

Detroit Cleans Up Environment and Trains Workers for Clean Energy Economy

\"Image\"Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice (DWEJ)’s Green Jobs Training Program was recently awarded $96,000 in Recovery Act money.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - $96,000

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Helena, Montana

Warm Hearts Warm Homes

\"Image\"In 2005 Warm Hearts Warm Homes Montana enabled Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) crews to help weatherize 600 low-income homes on Native American reservations. Since the beginning of the program, Corps members have weatherized approximately 4,500 low-, middle-, and fixed-income homes statewide. 

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Houston, TX

Houston Helping Low-Income Residents Retrofit Their Homes for Free

Houston, in partnership with Centerpoint Energy, is taking steps to promote more sustainable and affordable growth. 

The City of Houston’s Residential Energy Efficiency Program (REEP) has retrofitted approximately 7,000 homes in Houston since 2006.  This has created significant savings for homeowners while reducing energy use pollution — all at no cost to residents. 

REEP\'s weatherization efforts are having a big impact.  Weatherized homes are using 12-18% less energy than before.  In summer, that number is as high as 20%.


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Houston, TX

Houston Invests in Energy-Efficient Meters and Technology for Residents

Reliant Energy will get $19.9 million from the federal stimulus package to promote products that will use advanced meters to help customers monitor their power use and choose billing plans based on the times of day they use electricity. 

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Kansas City, MO

Kansas City Uses Recovery Act Funds to Establish a \"Green Impact Zone\"

\"VIDEO\"U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver II has spearheaded an innovative new initative in Kansas City: a \"Green Impact Zone\".

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Leveraging multiple investments (including the Weatherization Assistance Program) totaling $200 million

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Kingston, Washington

Laborers Union Provides Weatherization Training to Seattle Area Residents

\"Video\"The Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA)’s Weatherization Training Program is partnering with Got Green to offer first-time training for 20 people. 10 are members of LIUNA and 10 are young men with disadvantaged backgrounds.

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Little Rock, AR

Arkansas Will Improve More Than 5,000 Low-Income Homes in the Next Three Years

\"Video\"In just three months, Recovery Act investments have improved more than 100 low-income homes in Arkansans, raising living standards while lowering energy costs for the residents.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Weatherization Assistance Program, $48 million

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Long Island, New York

Long Island Program Helps Homeowners Go Green

Long Island Green Homes Initiative is an innovative approach to financing that will make green retrofits readily available to homeowners — at little or no up-front cost, and without assuming new debt.

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Los Angeles, CA

L.A. Construction Careers and Green Jobs Policy Provides New Pathways to Prosperity

\"Video\"Los Angeles\'s new Construction Careers Policy will ensure good green jobs for thousands of construction workers and provide middle-class career opportunities to at-risk populations. 

This is the first program to tie a Project Labor Agreement and local-hire requirements to privately developed projects that receive funding from local government.  Its first-in-the-nation status highlights Los Angeles, and the organizations that sponsored the policy, as leaders in the effort to strengthen America’s middle class.

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California Green Job Corps Uses Recovery Act Funds to Train Young Workers for Green Jobs

\"Image\"California is funding 11 regional California Green Job Corps pilot programs across the state, including one from the Los Angeles Community College District.
 
Recovery Act Funding Stream - U.S. Department of Labor, $10 million

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SolFocus Cuts Ribbon on Expanded Glassworks Factory in Mesa

\"Image\"SolFocus is a leading developer of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV), a type of solar energy technology.  Using the 30% manufacturing investment tax credit set aside by the Recovery Act, SolFocus was able to expand its manufacturing floor space by 175% and start a new line of advanced manufacturing equipment.

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Louisiana Green Corps Prepares Youth for Future Green Jobs

\"Video\"The LA Green Corps educates youth ages 17-24 in green construction, weatherizing homes, material deconstruction and reuse, and energy-saving techniques. The community learns about saving energy and going green from Corps members, who learn valuable job skills.

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Tennessee Plans to Weatherize More Than 10,5000 Homes in the Next Three Years

\"Video\"The Recovery Act is giving a huge boost to Tennessee\'s green economy.  Using almost $40 million in Weatherization Assistance Program funds, Tennessee will weatherize more than 10,500 homes over the next three years.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Weatherization Assistance Program, $39.6 million

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New Orleans Pursues Comprehensive Plan for Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

\"Image\"The City of New Orleans is working to pool Recovery Act funds to coordinate and establish energy efficiency retrofit programs.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, $600,000.

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Weatherization in New York Creates Jobs, Opportunity

\"Video\"Tahlia Williams is a single mother of a 3-year-old son, in Brooklyn, NY.  \"Construction is something that I wanted to do for a long time,\" she said.  \"I had no way of knowing how to get into this field because I always heard it was a man\'s world.\"  

Recovery Act Investment:  $16 million

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New Jersey Transforms Blighted Lots into Urban Eco-Village

\"Image\"The Newark Neighborhood Revitalization Project, managed by the Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD), is transforming a low-income neighborhood from blighted lots into an urban eco-village that includes 300 LEED-certified housing units, green-collar jobs, music festivals, historic restoration projects, and the Museum of African American Music.

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GANE Advances High Labor Standards for Weatherization Work

\"Video\"The Garden State Alliance for a New Economy (GANE) has been coordinating with national staff at Change to Win and the Laborers Union to raise standards for weatherization work in the largely unorganized residential construction industry.

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Oakland, CA

Bay Area Women Growing Green Businesses, Creating Healthy Jobs

Over the past decade, WAGES (Women\'s Action to Gain Economic Security) has built three successful green housecleaning cooperatives that have given hundreds of women the opportunity to become financially secure, gain business skills, and lead healthier, fuller lives.

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Oakland Starts New Revolving Loan Fund to Retrofit Homes, Create Jobs, and Funnel Benefits into Community

\"Video\"With nearly $2 million from the Recovery Act\'s Community Development Block Grant funding, Oakland is seeding a new revolving loan fund to help low- and moderate-income residents weatherize and retrofit their homes.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Community Development Block Grants, $2 million

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Olympia, WA

Washington State:  Bringing Energy Efficiency to Scale


\"video\"This year, Washington State paved the way to create hundreds of good, green-collar jobs with a new $58.5 million energy-efficiency program funded by President Obama\'s Recovery Act.



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Orlando Utilities Commission Pilots Solar Program

\"Image\"The Orlando Utilities Commission Pilot Solar Program enables homeowners to obtain loans for solar installation and earn credit from their solar energy production.  Through the Pilot Solar Program, the Orlando Federal Credit Union provides 0% to 5.5% interest loans for residential and commercial solar systems. 

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Philadelphia Hires 200 New Workers for Weatherization, Certifies Hundreds More

\"Image\"Two hundred new hires will be trained at Philadelphia’s Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA) with funding from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. And an additional hundreds of experienced weatherization technicians will be certified by the State to weatherize the homes of low-income residents this year.

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Philadelphia Uses Recovery Act to Create Opportunities

\"Image\"Philadelphia\'s plan for its $16 million in Weatherization Assistance Program funds includes an aggressive effort to create new opportunities for small minority-, woman- and disabled-owned firms (MWDBEs) in weatherization and energy-efficiency retrofits.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - The Weatherization Assistance Program, $16 million

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Philly Creating New Solar Installation School

\"Video\"Philadelphia is using Workforce Investment Act funding from the Recovery Act to support a new solar installation school, run by the Maxwell Education Group.

Recovery Act Investment - $150,000

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South Dakota Using Recovery Act Funds to Dramatically Reduce Energy Consumption

\"Video\"South Dakota is using funds from the federal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program (EECBG) to make the state dramatically more energy efficient, aiming to reduce overall energy consumption to 75% of 1990 levels by 2012.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, $9.6 million

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Pittsburgh Coalition Comes Together to Create More Than 100 Green Jobs through Recovery Funds

\"Video\"A coalition in Pittsburgh is creating a targeted approach to strategically utilize Weatherization Assistance Program and other Recovery Act funds.

Recovery Act Investment - $25 million

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Portland YouthBuilders Trains Young People for Jobs in the Green Energy Sector

\"Video\"Portland YouthBuilders (PYB) provides educational, vocational, and leadership development programs for low-income men and women ages 17-24. Each year, PYB’s construction department serves an average of 100 people.

Participating students receive training in the components of energy-efficient residential construction and build affordable housing for first-time homeowners.

Bill Kowalczyk, PYB’s Construction Manager, describes the program as a \"gateway to apprenticeship programs and family-wage jobs in the construction industry.\"

Recovery Act Funding Stream - U.S. Department of Labor Green Jobs Capacity Building Award, $100,000

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Portland Launches Groundbreaking Home-Retrofit Program and Community Workforce Agreement

\"Video\"Using money from the federal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program (EECBG), Portland is launching a revolving loan fund that will help residents pay for energy-efficiency improvements to their homes.

Recovery Act Funding - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant, $1.1 million

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Solar Richmond provides green-collar job training and placement in solar technology

\"Video\"Solar Richmond works closely with diverse partners in city government, the non-profit world and local businesses, in order to foster a green economy in Richmond and bring good, green jobs to its residents.

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Rocky Boy\'s North Central Montana Water Project

\"Image\"Rocky Boy\'s/Northcentral Montana Regional Water Project received $20 million in stimulus funds to build a treatment plant and install a pipeline that will deliver clean water to an area the size of Delaware.

Recovery Act Investment  - $20 million

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Salt Lake City, UT

Utah Uses Recovery Act to Ramp Up Weatherization Efforts

\"Image\"Utah is taking full advantage of the Recovery Act\'s investment in the Weatherization Assistance Program, hiring 77 additional weatherization workers and contractors.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Weatherization Assistance Program, $38 million

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San Francisco Helps Businesses Upgrade to More Energy-Efficient Ways

San Francisco Energy Watch offers businesses and multifamily property owners new energy-efficient equipment and professional services at greatly reduced cost. Participants can save energy and money while at the same time reducing their impact on the environment.

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Seattle Prepares Workers for Lifelong Skills and Provides Pathways Out of Poverty

Located at the intersection of Seattle’s most diverse neighborhoods, Seattle Vocational Institute Pre-Apprenticeship Construction Training (SVI PACT) is an effective pre-apprenticeship training program focusing on low-income minorities and women. 

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South Bronx, New York

Sustainable South Bronx Celebrates 100th Graduate of its BEST Academy

Sustainable South Bronx is one of the nation\'s most innovative and successful environmental justice organizations.  Foremost among its wide array of innovative projects is the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training Academy (BEST), which provides training and certification courses ranging from asbestos removal to urban forestry to New York residents.  Most BEST student-workers are low-income, welfare-to-work, unemployed or underemployed.  Since 2003, SSBx has trained 128 community residents to work in the burgeoning green-collar workforce.

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Green Worker Cooperatives

\"Video\"Green Worker Cooperatives is bringing community-owned green businesses to the South Bronx.  The organization incubates worker-owned and environmentally friendly cooperatives to address high unemployment and decades of environmental racism in the South Bronx.

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New Jersey Creates More Than 150 Green Jobs Fighting Pollution

New Jersey will use $14.4 million in Recovery Act funds to reduce fossil fuel emissions, decrease overall energy use, and improve energy efficiency at the state and local level.

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant Program, $14.4 million

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Wind River, WY

Northern Arapaho Tribe Poised to Lower Energy Costs for Indigenous Community

\"Image\"The Recovery Act\'s investment in the Weatherization Assistance Program will allow the Northern Arapaho Tribe to weatherize about 125 homes over the next three years on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. 

Recovery Act Funding Stream - Weatherization Assistance Program, $382,484

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Window Rock, AZ

Navajo Nation leads Indian country with new green jobs legislation

\"\"The Navajo Nation Council made history during its 21st Summer Session (July 20-24, 2009) by passing groundbreaking green jobs legislation. The Council voted 62-1 to establish a Navajo Green Economy Commission. 

This five-person body will seek funding for and oversee the approval of small-scale green projects such as wool mills, farmers markets and home weatherization. 

The Council also voted to create a Navajo Green Economy Fund, which creates an account for receiving federal, state, local, and private funds to make these green projects possible.


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Incarcerated Women Get Opportunity to Build Energy Star Homes

The Vermont Works for Women has been helping women and girls since 1986 to enter and excel in nontraditional careers that pay a livable wage, despite the personal, educational or economic barriers that may stand in their way. 

Programs for both incarcerated and recently released women provide the opportunity to gain green carpentry training, learn valuable life-skills, and the chance to build affordable Energy Star modular homes.

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