Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
The Green Wave is coming. That’s what Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO of Green for All, told us at last week’s SRI in the Rockies conference. The question isn’t will it come, the question is, will America participate and will it help people rise out of poverty? Green for All is poised to help America ride this wave in a very big way. They’ve got eight billion dollars of federal stimulus money and a lot of passion and good ideas and are working very hard to implement plans that will put this money to use in the most effective ways possible to meet their twin goals of green jobs creation in a clean energy economy and moving people out of poverty.
Green for All was founded by one of my heroes, Van Jones, a pioneering force in human rights and the clean energy economy, and former special advisor for green jobs at the White House’s Council for Environmental Quality, as well as author of The Green Collar Economy. He has been a voice of drawing awareness to the global climate crisis and its disproportionate impact on the poor.
