Tools for Action
On this page you will find resources to help you communicate effectively with the media, hold community events, and more.
Every day Green For All is approached by people who want to advocate for green jobs creation but don’t feel that they have the necessary skills or experience to do so. We believe everyone is capable of being an effective messenger when equipped with the right tools. On this page you will find resources that will help you:
- communicate with the media (writing press releases, holding press conferences, speaking to members of the press
- organize Solution Salons (educational community events)
- advocate for green collar jobs creation with elected representatives (coming soon!)
- organize a large, diverse, green event
If you find these resources to be helpful, please contact us!
Clean Energy Corps: Jobs, Service, and Equal Opportunity in America’s Clean Energy Economy
America is suffering through an economic recession, rising energy prices and energy insecurity, job losses, and an increasing scarcity of hope and common purpose. Americans are looking for solutions on climate, energy and the economy. To address these intersecting challenges, Green For All and its partners propose a Clean Energy Corps in a new white paper, Clean Energy Corps: Jobs, Service, and Equal Opportunity in America's Clean Energy Economy. The CEC would be a combined service, training, and job creation effort to combat global warming, grow local and regional economies and demonstrate the equity and employment promise of the clean energy economy.
Green Recovery For All Toolkit
This Green Recovery For All Toolkit suggests a few actions you can take to bring home a green recovery for all in your community. Many important decisions about Recovery Package investments will be made within 30 to 90 days of February 17. City Hall needs to hear from you! Whatever you choose to do, be creative, be bold, and act now to be part of the conversation.
Green Jobs Guidebook
New environmental and energy laws and policies will create of tens of thousands of new jobs in California. This guide from the Environmental Defense Fund provides: profiles of 200 green jobs currently in California; details on 45 job types for high school grads, many paying over $25 per hour; information on job training and placement programs; and listings of valuable apprenticeship programs.
Behind the Scenes of The Dream Reborn
Written shortly after The Dream Reborn Conference in Memphis, TN in April 2008, this publication is a useful resource for those putting together a green event that engages people of color and members of communities of modest means, integrates culture and spirit, and transcends the model of talk-at-you keynotes and plenaries, moving instead toward a more participant-centered event.
Host a Solutions Salon - A Green For All Guide
To build the green economy for all, we have to come together. This brief guide provides a framework for organizing a 2-3 hour event for 50-300 people from your community to talk about new solutions for building an inclusive green economy.
Media Toolkit
Unsure how to approach a reporter? No problem. Use this toolkit to help pitch and prepare for interviews and articles around climate change and green jobs.
