These individuals have influenced our hopes and standards across the board.

Absent from the Obama Administration’s last $50 billion dollar economic-stimulus package was talk about how many new and green jobs this package would generate.

(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Georgia could create 50,000 “green” jobs by 2016 and ride an environmentally friendly wave to a cleaner, more prosperous future, according to a thought-provoking report by the Georgia Department of Labor.  While health care and education are expected to account for most new jobs, the green industry could generate 8 percent […]

(DefenderNetwork.com) — Dennis Cail is proof that business and personal principles don’t have to contradict one another. Cail blends a technology background with green interests in his latest ventures. He runs three Dallas-area companies, but has started about 10 in the last 15 years. Late last year, Cail co-founded GreenJobs.pro, an environmental job site. In […]

(TheGrio.com) — It is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Strangely, today’s “celebration” reminds me of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Independence Day speech when he so poignantly asked, ” What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence?” Today, black America should ask the same question of Earth Day, and more specifically, […]