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...based human-rights activist came to a realization. If the U.S. accelerated the transition to a cleaner economy, millions of jobs in green construction and alternative energy could be created. Those jobs--call them green collar--were exactly what unemployed residents of cities like Oakland needed. Environmental activists and inner-city minorities--two groups often segregated by race and class--had a common interest, and it could help extend the coalition against climate change beyond hard-core greenies. "Polar bears, Priuses and Ph.D.s aren't going to do it alone," says Jones, 39. "Everything our friends...
...couldn't create a better advocate for the green-collar movement than Jones. A Yale-educated lawyer who founded the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, the magnetic Jones moves easily between worlds, at home preaching to inner-city high school students or mixing with Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. But everywhere Jones goes, he repeats a simple message. "Give the work that most needs to be done to the people who most need the work," he says, and solve two pressing problems--pollution and poverty--at once...
...because there are so many flowering plants and trees," says Benbow, who describes the taste of the honey he collects from 17 other hives he has hidden on London rooftops as similar to floral toffee. While beekeeper numbers are hard to gauge, Benbow estimates there are several hundred in inner London...
...hard to lose weight? "It looks very simple: People need to eat less and exercise more," Padwal says. "But if you drill down it's more complicated." Telling a single mother who works full-time that she should take a brisk walk in the inner city after work each day is not the most practical advice - she's unlikely to do it. And the stressed-out, sedentary American lifestyle - not to mention the overabundance of cheap, high-calorie foods - makes it difficult for people to eat as healthfully or exercise as much as they should...
Elmo may be 38 years old, but he’s still relevant, from the inner cities of the United States to the orphanages of South Africa, the president of Sesame Street Workshop told a crowd at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) yesterday. “Sesame Street reaches children in every demographic group,” said Gary E. Knell. “We have received more Emmy awards than any other show on TV—117, but who’s counting?” Knell’s talk was sponsored by the Weatherhead...