Today is the birthday of sofreshandsogreen.com. My bouncing baby blog is a 1 year old and that’s thanks to you guys. It’s also my birthday and for me it’s been quite a journey because at times I may teach, or even preach, but I learn as you learn. I’ve had the opportunity to connect with so many great folks out there and I’m glad I could be a part of educating, informing and entertaining. (more…)
AP Photo: Lisa Jackson, right, watches as Nadia Montes tests a water sample from Compton Creek as a coalition of public and private stakeholders announced the strategic acquisition of a four-acre “soft bottom” parcel of land in the waterway in Compton, Calif. , Wednesday, July 7, 2010. The creek is a tributary of the Los Angeles River. Federal officials have affirmed that the Los Angeles River qualifies for Clean Water Act protections by designating it as a full-fledged navigable waterway.
Keeping tabs on Prez O and Lisa P is important. They are the President and Head Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency of the US. When she’s not looking at water samples in the Gulf, Lisa P. Jackson’s also on facebook and she posted this. (more…)
Photo Credit: reuters: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson (L) is hugged by National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen as they wait for U.S. President Barack Obama to come down the stairs of Air Force One in New Orleans.
The fact that a single accident at a single offshore oil well can cause billions of dollars in damage, result in thousands of people losing their jobs and livelihoods and threaten an entire region highlights how important it is that we keep moving America forward, towards energy independence.
We can’t afford to go back.
Lisa P. Jackson, the head administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency recently did a piece for the Huffington Post where she expressed her concerns about renewable energy, BP’s oil spill in the Gulf and upcoming legislation that will erode the powers the EPA has to regulate. (more…)
Head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lisa P. Jackson visited Jon Stewart at the Daily Show on Monday. They discussed The Clean Air Act, Lindsey Graham and carbon emission regulations.
Lisa P. Jackson hopes Lindsey Graham will rejoin the bipartisan effort to introduce climate change legislation. (more…)
For African Americans and other people of color, I hope you can support the clean energy solutions that will make our communities more prosperous. This isn’t the time to surrender to feelings of hopelessness and despair. It’s time to tell our friends, neighbors and elected officials why clean energy is good for our communities and our country.”
~Omarion
R&B singer Omarion has recently decided to kick the truth to the young Black youth and everyone else about clean energy in an op-ed post.
Omarion also explains that he recently finished The Hip Hop Caucus Clean Energy Now! tour with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green For All and none other than Biz Markie among others. The tour was designed to bring together the youth, African Americans, the Hip Hop community, and various faiths to get active about the need for clean energy jobs and a greener future for all Americans. (more…)
EPA Administrator Lisa P.Jackson addresses the Brownfields2009 Conference in New Orleans, LA. USEPA Photo Eric Vance
Below are the words of New Orleans native Lisa Jackson, the first African-American Administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Sometimes I think we spend a lot of time being concerned with what President Obama does, but he has a cabinet and a staff.
Obama is not the only name we should know. These other people have names and we can’t even think of holding them accountable as well if we don’t know their names.
One of my African American colleagues told me about how, every year as winter was coming, his grandmother would get up on a chair and put up plastic sheeting over the windows.
She didn’t say she was “greening her home.” She didn’t say she was “weatherizing the house.” She didn’t call herself an “environmentalist.”
From her perspective, she was just keeping out the cold and saving money on the oil bill. But the issues that we label “environmentalism” were an important part of her life.
The first step is to communicate – clearly – the many ways people’s stake in the environment is greater than they may realize. In the newspaper a couple of weeks ago there was a story about an environmental curriculum being taught in inner city schools.
One of the teachers quoted in the article got right to the heart of the matter when she said, “You can’t have a kid in a violent neighborhood and say, ‘Let’s talk about the polar bear.’” (more…)
