Urban Renewal

While cities may have been built largely to support the needs of centralized capital and industry, they often did so at the expense of the people living there. Neighborhoods without political clout fell into neglect, and tended to lack the means to develop self-sustaining economies. Urban renewal and suburban renewal depend on new kinds of planning, as well as new educational and job-creation models. Those who have succeeded already are more than willing to share the stories of their successes, and serve as models for others.

Outreach Programs:
Advocating for Green Jobs and Green Job training:
Green For All

Some examples of programs that are paid job training and placement program designed to prepare unemployed, out-of-school young adults for living wage jobs in the rapidly expanding green economy.
Sustainable South Bronx, NY
Green Opportunities, NC

Related Media
Media Squat Radio, May 18th: Miquela Craytor, Director of Sustainable South Bronx
Media Squat Radio, April 20th: Directors of Green Opportunites

Social Entrepreneurship:
A site for micro-lending to world-wide businesses:
Kiva

Echoing Green has been in the business of identifying, funding, and supporting emerging social entrepreneurs:
Echoing Green

Books:

How to Change the World