Green the Block is a campaign led by the Hip Hop Caucus and Green For All,
and a coalition of over seventy organizations.

Reverend Yearwood and Phaedra Ellis-LamkinsGreen the Block is a campaign led by the Hip Hop Caucus and Green For All, and a coalition of over seventy organizations.  On August 4th, 2009 we publically announced Green the Block at a press conference at the White House with key Obama Administration Officials.  On September 11, 2009 we mobilized nearly one-hundred Green the Block service events across twenty-four states as part of the first National Day of Service and Remembrance.  Get involved today by taking action on important clean-energy legislation, and read more about the Green the Block vision and strategy.

Green the Block National Day of Service and Remembrance

Liberty City, Miami Greens the Block on September 11, 2009On September 11, 2009 just over one-hundred Green the Block service events happened in 24 states.  Green the Block partners joined together with their neighbors in various activities, including: community clean-ups in Brooklyn; green retrofitting of a 90-year-old community center in Chattanooga, Tennessee; and elementary students delivering cards made from recycled materials to the troops at Walter Reed U.S. Army Medical Center.  The Green the Block events were in association with President Obama's United We Serve initiative for a National Day of Service and Remembrance.

Brooklyn Builds Towards a Brighter, Greener Future

September 18, 2009 - 9:57pm

Brooklyn Students partner with The Source magazine to remember those that fell on 9/11, and build toward a brighter, greener future.

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Memphis Greens the Block

September 18, 2009 - 9:11pm

Long time Memphis green activist Sandra Upchurch works with Douglas High School students, Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, and Councilwoman Barbara Swerangen-Ware to clean up the campus and help green the surrounding community.  Students walked throughout the neighborhood of Douglas providing energy saving tips and lightbulbs.  This event exemplifies what it means to "green your block!"

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Douglass High School & Community Goes Green!

September 13, 2009 - 10:02pm

Marcus King installs an energy-efficient light bulb for 82-year-old Pocahontas Boykin on Friday. Douglass High students fanned out into the community, giving away the bulbs and installing them. Mike Maple/The Commercial AppealOn Friday, September 11 in Memphis, Tennessee, Douglass High Students Greened the Block. 

The students’ participation in Memphis exemplified the many faucets of the Green the Block campaign.  Young people came together and led a project that educated their community about how to be more sustainable and gave residents resources with which they could use to go green.  Students streamed down the streets of Douglass a North Memphis neighborhood, where Douglass High is located.  While at first residents may have looked on with a bit of worry at the unusual sight students out in droves during school hours, once they realized that the students were delivering a valuable community service, home-owners couldn’t have been more pleased and proud!

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Nappy Roots and Gov Beshear come together to Green the Block in KY

September 13, 2009 - 9:57pm

Gov. Steve Beshear is greeted by children Friday at the Housing Authority of Bowling Green for Green the Block Day. (Joe Imel/Daily News)

You know there is something different going on when in the great state of Kentucky, when Gov Steve Beshear and the Nappy Roots are out together in Bowling Green on September 11 to remember and honor the victims of the 2001 attacks, and to look to acts of community service that promote Green Jobs as the imperative for a better future for this country.  They were joined by Kentucky Secretary of Finance and Administration Jonathan Miller, Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon, representatives of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and local leaders and residents.

Nappy Roots performed for their hometown residents in Bowling Green at a local Housing Authority project, where residents received information on green jobs, as well as tips on saving energy and purchasing more energy efficient products.

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