Q: I think a green career would be great -- someday, but where can I find a green job while I'm still in high school?

A: Get connected to the Green Jobs Now movement and start with the Green Jobs Now! workshop at the Breaking Ground: Urban Gardening Youth Conference on September 27th


Save the Date! September 27th is Green Jobs Now, a national day of mobilization focused on building the new green economy. Around the country community groups and local organizations will meet and plan the next steps for bringing green jobs to previously excluded populations. It's about helping the environment and the economy at the same time. The Green Jobs Now! Workshop at Breaking Ground will feature Bay Area young people who are working in green jobs. They will explain what work is like for them and most importantly, how to get a green job right now! There are plenty of other great workshops that you can check out at Breaking Ground. Call to find out more about our fun, FREE, informative conference.

Interested in coming to the conference? Spaces are limited so sign up now to reserve your spot! email jasmine@sfpt.org or call 415-750-5110 for more details.

On Saturday, August 16th volunteers met at the White Crane Springs Community Garden in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco. Neighbors from the 8th Avenue Landscaping Group, a nearby Park Partner, joined the fun alongside volunteers from Garden for the Environment, Wallenberg High School, and other San Francisco community members. The group prepared the ground for the garden's new native plant area and heard from butterfly expert Liam O'Brien. Liam shared interesting butterfly factoids as well as introduced a project dear to him, the Green Hairstreak Ecosystem Corridor Project. The Corridor Project is a Sunset based planting project that he hopes will restore the beautiful and dwindling Green Hairstreak butterfly by connecting San Francisco's only remaining two Hairstreak populations. Partnering with Nature in the City and the San Francisco Parks Trust, Liam is working to get private and community gardeners to plant street level host plants -- Seaside Daisy and Coastal Buckwheat -- as female Hairstreaks will only lay eggs on these plants. We all left the gathering inspired and excited. Gardeners from White Crane Springs are even planning to put in some host plants into the new native plant area when planting season arrives.

We had a great time! Click here to see our volunteers in action.

Live in the Sunset anywhere near 14th Avenue? Visit Nature in the City online to find out how you can get free plants to support the project.

JOBS/INTERNSHIPS

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The Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (EJCC) seeks a full-time regional campus organizer to help strengthen their work with historically Black colleges and universities and their surrounding communities. EJCC is a diverse, consensus-based group of environmental justice, climate justice, religious, policy, and advocacy networks working together to promote just and meaningful climate policy. Their mission is to educate and activate the people of North America towards the creation and implementation of just climate policies in both domestic and international contexts. Please call or e-mail Kari Fulton at 202-210- 1766 or kari@ejcc.org for more information

Community Educational Services (CES) is a non-profit agency that has provided educational, employment, and community involvement services to children and youth in San Francisco since 1969. CES' mission is to help young people transform their lives, school, and communities. CES seeks four Youth Program Coordinators to facilitate the empowerment of SFUSD school communities through environmental service learning. Environmental service learning is an educational pedagogy that advocates learning through serving the community, deepening connections between academic learning and the impact on the world around us, all through an environmental justice lens. To Apply: Fax (415-434-3128) or e-mail ( cesresume@yahoo.com) cover letter and resume to ESLI Youth Program Coordinator Search Committee, Community Educational Services.

EVENTS

Sept 13 - Congdon Cleanup Day: Excelsior neighborhood cleanup. Meet @ Trumbull Street and Congdon Street (map ) 9AM - 12PM

Sept 19 - PARK(ing) Day @ 1 Sansome Street at Market Street (map ) 8AM - 2PM

Sept 20 - Street Parks Gardening Day @ the Visitation Valley Greenway. Meet at Arleta, midblock between Alpha and Rutland Streets (map )

Sept 21 - Short Films about Food and Gardening @ Garden for the Environment (map) 6:30PM - 9:30PM cost $ 10

Sept 27 - Breaking Ground: Urban Gardening Youth Conference @ Potrero Del Sol Park, 25th Street & Utah Street, San Francisco's Mission District (map) 10AM - 4PM