The real question is: who doesn’t want a green job?

Right now, we have a really amazing window of opportunity to bring green jobs home. In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ie Stimulus Package), there was a whopping $87 billion of investments in awesome green stuff, including investments in clean energy, energy efficiency, and green jobs training.

This is sort of old news, though, so why am I bringing this up now? Right now, states, cities, and counties across the nation are deciding how this money will be spent. And you can bet that corporations and the folks who are used to business-as-usual are in City Halls and State Houses across the nation lobbying to be the ones who get those investments to create “green jobs” – that help their bottom line, of course.

What do we want? We want green jobs to really be for everyone. And there’s a very small window to make sure that this happens – localities are setting up programs as I’m typing this post, and the window of opportunity will end in the next month. So Green For All is working with citizens across the nation on setting up actions so that we make sure that all voices are heard as local governments are making these important investments. Want to get involved? Sign up for an action, learn more about the green recovery, and bring those green jobs to everyone in your hometown.