Thank you for a great DC Green Jobs event!

The DC Get Going Go Green Green Jobs Now event that was hosted in Anacostia, Washington DC was great. As a partner of 1 Sky, Green for All, and Al Gore’s We Can Solve it’s, National Day of Action, we were able to educate, encourage and empower DC low-income residents, ex-offenders, faith-based communities as well as uniting a broad range of communities to promote the creation of a strong green economy.

We enjoyed speeches by National leaders such as Van Jones, President of Green for All, local leaders such as Councilmember Mary Cheh, Harriet Tregoing, Director of DC office of Planning, George Hawkins, Director of the DC Department of the Environment, and more. The entire community enjoyed the Green jobs Now rally, free food, Go-Go music, the art contest, free music and service project, where the community cleaned, re-mulched trees, and planted flowers at the Malcolm X Park on Martin Luther King, Jr Avenue and Malcolm X Avenue, Southeast.

Thanks to all of our participants and volunteers, because with out their help and contribution, we will not be able to create a strong green economy, which will help the planet and the people.

The Green Jobs Day of Action in Anacostia was just the beginning. Please feel free to get in touch with Nydria Humphries, the day of action organizer, and the green jobs coordinator for DC.

Nydria Brenda Humphries
Green Jobs Organizer, CCAN and GWIPL
240.396.1981 ext. 9118
nhumphries@gwipl.org

Getting to Energy Smart: Calculating the Financial Benefits of Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs (CFLs): the condo case

We have all become armored against advertising and the claims of “save $26” (or more) on a CFL package are hard to believe. In addition, in our culture, we focus on the cost to buy (CTB) rather than the cost to own (CTO). Thus, in a weird perversion of Benjamin Franklin, we focus on the $0.99 purchase price rather than the cost through the years that we might use something. These factors combine to make it difficult for most Americans to pursue energy efficiency choices, such as CFLs.

This reality of condominium structures worsens this situation. With shared utility costs (electricity, water, gas), but individual owners controlling purchases within their own units, it is hard to capture savings opportunities. This is an example of a very common Catch-22, where the person “buying” something doesn’t directly pay for the “cost” of running it. It is time to break through the Catch-22 and arrive at sensible solutions, to work for real solutions to real problems.
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Make Internet History!

UPDATE: We will be posting the live streaming event right here on our blog! So, just come to chesapeakeclimate.org/blog to view the event.

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CCAN is quickly becoming a new media darling. This Thursday, CCAN will be the first group ever in this region to “e-broadcast” a local public event live over the internet. It’s sure to be a CSPAN, can’t-tear-myself-away preview to MD District 8 Candidates. New technology has allowed us to be an online pioneer, bringing you a spirited debate among local candidates who want to be your Congressional representative. So mark your calendar and turn on your computer next Thursday night, Oct. 2nd, at 7 pm to watch us “stream” a candidates forum featuring Democrat Chris Van Hollen, Republican Steve Hudson, Green Party candidate Gordon Clark, and write-in candidate Deborah Vollmer.

Find out more and sign up to get the link>>

Live streaming will be joining our suite of new media capabilities. This past year, we’ve launched:

This is in addition to:

The candidates will be discussing major issues of concern to our region, including global warming and clean energy. You can also attend the debate in person, of course, at the Rockville Library in downtown Rockville.

But if you can’t make it in person, you can enjoy the entire debate from the comfort of your own home. To sign up to watch live on your computer, simply visit:

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/423/t/1906/event/index.jsp?event_KEY=45045

The Power Vote energizer bunny!

Our own dear Ethan Nuss, doing his Power Vote magic:

powervoteNow “Power Vote,” a national non-partisan effort spearheaded by the Energy Action Coalition, seeks to elevate the issue of climate change in the 2008 election by mobilizing one million young “climate voters.” To do this, the Energy Action Coalition and its more than forty partner organizations are organizing young people across the United States to pledge their vote “for clean and just energy.”

Watch the real training video here:

It's 2008. Do you know where your US Congressperson is?

Students at Morgan State University know exactly where to find theirs. Along with community members they successfully got their US Congressional Representative, Elijah Cumming to sign onto the 1Sky platform. Then the following week they heard Rep. Cumming was coming to a rally on campus. They sprung into action, slapped on their Power Vote stickers, summoned some courage, and asked if they could “adopt” him.

Check it out:

The “Adopt a Congressperson” campaign is a program advanced in part by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative. Its time that we all “adopt” our elected officials and tell them to give us the clean and just energy future our generation demands. Continue reading

Van Jones in DC on Saturday!

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Green For All President Van Jones to Join DC Councilmembers, Anacostia Families to Demand Green Jobs Now! DC Event One of Hundreds Planned Nationwide to Highlight Economic Benefits of Transitioning to Clean Energy.

Green For All President Van Jones, community groups and DC elected officials will join Anacostia families Saturday, September 27th to call for green jobs now! The District stands to benefit tremendously from the emerging green jobs movement, and the local event aims to educate and empower DC families to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the transition to clean energy.

The event is part of the National Day of Action for Green Jobs, a day when thousands of citizens from across the nation will get together to show our leaders that we are ready for green jobs now! The DC event will feature a morning service project, a rally and an educational fair and is focused on low-income residents, ex-offenders and the faith-based communities in DC’s Ward 8.

WHAT:                 "Get Going, Get Green: Green Jobs Now" rally and jobs fair in Anacostia

WHEN:                 September 27th 2008 Clean-up Project 9:00am – 11:00am Green-Collar Jobs, Health and Community Fair 12:00pm – 4:00pm

SPEAKERS:          Van Jones, Founder and President of Green For All Councilmember Marion Barry, Ward 8 Councilmember Councilmember Mary Cheh, Ward3 Councilmember Reverend Anthony Motley, President of the Jobs Coalition Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton, US Congresswoman from DC And more…

WHERE:               Bethlehem Baptist Church 2458 Martin Luther King, Jr Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20020 Bethlehem Baptist Church is directly across from Anacostia Metro Station (Green line)

WHO:                   We Campaign, Green For All, 1Sky, the Ward 8 Environmental Council, Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network,  Jobs Coalition, Serve Nation, and Greater Washington Interfaith Power and Light.

 

 

Learn more at: http://events.greenjobsnow.com/greenforall/events/show/5174              

 

This is Newt

Do you know Newt? I bet you do. He’s trying to hijack this Saturday’s Green Jobs Now event with his Drill Here Drill Now Campaign. Join us, not them here: http://www.chesapeakeclimate.org/campaigns/campaign_detail.cfm?id=91