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Clean Power, Healthy Communities

02/10/2010 - 2:00pm
02/11/2010 - 2:59pm
City: 
Oakland
Address: 
California Endowment, 1111 Broadway, 7th Floor
Cost: 
$45
On February 10-11, the Local Clean Energy Alliance is bringing together clean energy advocates, public officials and green entrepreneurs for the "Clean Power, Healthy Communities" conference at the California Endowment in Oakland (see below).

Despite groundbreaking laws to address global warming, greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise. In response,  community advocates throughout the Bay Area are advocating local solutions, with a focus on building healthier communities and creating green jobs in our communities. The conference will report on the status of clean energy programs around the Bay, share best practices, bring together clean energy advocates, and explore the potential for more regional collaboration and coordination.
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Resilience for All at Green Festival: Building an Inclusive Movement for Local Self-Reliance

11/14/2009 - 1:00pm
11/14/2009 - 4:00pm
City: 
San Francisco
Address: 
Mezzanine, Concourse Exhibition Center, 635 8th St. (at Brannan)
Cost: 
Unknown
Global warming, the energy crisis, and economic instability are already reaping devastating impacts on low-income people and communities of color. In the face of these challenges, a growing network of racial justice, environmental, and community resilience leaders are coming together to build a truly inclusive and equitable movement for regional self-reliance.
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Bay Localize: Organizational Profile

Mission Statement: 
We catalyze the emergence of a regional, self-reliant economy that strengthens all Bay Area communities.
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Growing Local Food into Quality Green Jobs in Agriculture

By Kirsten Schwind 

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"I couldn’t stand; my eyes were watering and my throat hurt from the gas. I would run outside the field to get some air. The boss made me go back, to keep working without a mask. Now I can’t breathe well, and my vision is blurry, cloudy.” Jorge Fernandez pauses to gasp for breath, a result of chronic on-the-job exposure to pesticides. Fernandez is a Salinas, California farmworker who spent 11 years applying fumigants without access to protective equipment. “The inspectors are friends with the bosses. They say, ‘So what if this Mexican dies, there are more.’ They just find other workers.”[1]

Industrial agriculture is notorious for low wages, workplace health hazards, racial discrimination, and dependence on the legal vulnerability of undocumented immigrant labor. This is especially true in California, where twenty-first century agriculture was built on wringing short-term utility from workers, soil, and petrochemicals to minimize costs and maximize profits.

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