Posted by Brandon Knight in Midwest Green Economy on 26th June, 2012 | No Comments
After months of looking through applications, we finally ended up with 20 participants for our summer Green Economy Leadership Training program in Highland Park, Michigan. We are in the middle of our second week of the program, but let’s re-cap what took place in our first week.
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Posted by Kevin Danaher in Building Positive Alternatives, Featured, Guest Posts, Midwest Green Economy, World News & Events on 5th June, 2012 | No Comments
June 5th is World Environment Day. To mark the occasion, Kevin Danaher shares his thoughts about sustainovation and a new type of economic enterprise that values a triple bottom line.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Global Exchange News & Events, Midwest Green Economy on 5th April, 2012 | 5 Comments
Want to participate in community-led projects focused on developing local green economy resources? Interested in learning to organize social entrepreneurship ventures? Between the ages of 18 and 99? Want to spend the summer in Highland Park, MI and meet like-minded people from across the country working for social justice while working with the local community? Then apply to GELT today!
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Featured, Global Exchange News & Events, Midwest Green Economy on 9th March, 2012 | 4 Comments
Want to participate in community-led projects focused on developing local green economy resources? Interested in learning to organize social entrepreneurship ventures? Between the ages of 18 and 99? Want to spend the summer in Highland Park, MI and meet like-minded people from across the country working for social just while working with the local community? Then apply to GELT today.
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Community Rights, Global Exchange News & Events, Midwest Green Economy on 19th January, 2012 | No Comments
Signs of hope continue to sprout in Detroit. For many of us working on the revitalization of Detroit, 2012 may prove to be the year when the tide finally shifts towards a rebirth of our great city. Some consider this a bottoming out after over a decade of massive manufacturing job losses to the tune of 200,000 jobs lost since the year 2000 and eye-opening population loss.
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Posted by Beth Garriott in Global Exchange News & Events, Midwest Green Economy on 15th December, 2011 | 3 Comments
Global Exchange’s Green Economy Leadership Training in Highland Park, MI aims to educate, engage and empower both youth and adults to be active agents of change in building the necessary clean energy, green economy future. Their work is Highland Park, Michigan. Their future looks bright. Global Exchange’s Beth Garriott takes us to GELT’s recent Open House, where Detroit area residents came out to show their support. Here are some highlights:
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in End Dirty Energy, Fair Trade, Featured, Global Exchange News & Events, Midwest Green Economy on 21st October, 2011 | No Comments
President Obama will be in San Francisco at a $7500 per plate lunch with his biggest donors at the W Hotel and I’ll be outside with the good folks at CREDO Action telling President Obama that the Keystone XL pipeline is not the kind of change I was expecting from his administration. And as he contemplates green lighting the pipeline, on November 6th I’ll join thousands of others in front of the White House to tell Obama that he’s got the support he needs to say No to the Keystone XL pipeline, and say NO to EXPANDING the largest and most destructive industrial project in human history.
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Midwest Green Economy on 16th June, 2011 | No Comments
Written by GELT Participant – Dan Tompkins It was an afternoon in summer. Me, this guy James, and a girl named Marion walked down the middle of the road. We were in a rough area. It’s called Highland Park. The three of us were working with GELT, a project of Global Exchange, an international human »
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Global Exchange News & Events, Midwest Green Economy on 17th May, 2011 | No Comments
In 2 weeks, the Global Exchange Michigan team will embark on our second Green Economy Leadership Training (GELT) program. GELT is a 9 week training program that brings together residents from the community of Detroit & Highland Park together with youth from communities throughout Michigan and the U.S. for technical trainings in the green economy and community organizing.
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Posted by Brandon Knight in Global Exchange News & Events, Midwest Green Economy on 5th May, 2011 | 1 Comment
The third national Powershift conference was held last month in Washington D.C. It was also my third national Powershift conference. The conference overall was a big success, reports were that close to 10,000 people turned out to the Convention Center in Washington D.C. The 2011 Powershift was framed by an Obama Administration wavering on its »
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