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Green Service in the News

Secretary Salazar Announces Expanded "Youth in the Great Outdoors" Initiative
February 9, 2010
The U.S. Department of the Interior will expand agency initiatives to connect youth to the great outdoors, Secretary Ken Salazar announced Monday. Speaking at the Corps Network’s annual forum, Secretary Salazar said he will increase youth employment opportunities at the Interior bureaus by 50 percent in 2010.


Secretary Salazar Honor Youth in the Environment
February 5, 2010
On Monday, February 8, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will celebrate a group that exemplifies his youth initiative -- a team of recent college graduates who have been volunteering with community improvement/watershed groups throughout Appalachian coal country and the hardrock west.


Settlers Join to Save Mau in Kenya
January 20, 1010
Nairobi — Kenya Forest Service has started a tree-planting drive in which Mau Complex settlers will participate in a bid to restore the water tower.The agency seeks to employ youth to plant trees on more than 500 hectares of the depleted forest under the Kazi Kwa Vijana programme.

Interview with Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International
January 18, 2010
Caroline Hartnell of Alliance Magazine asks Kumi Naidoo if there are positive things we can build on in the aftermath of disappointing negotiations in Copenhagen in December 2009.


Teaching Green, Beyond Recycling
January 11, 2010
Several schools in New York have adopted an environmental theme to teach students about local issues and prepare them for jobs in related fields.


 

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