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Welcome to the Global Citizen Center |
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 The Global Citizen Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about our need to engage in new economic practices — as consumers, businesses, and communities — that are environmentally sustainable and socially just. These principles are embodied in the Green Economy.
The Global Citizen Center will take the shape of a large mixed-use LEED-certified building that will include green retail, office space for nonprofits and socially responsible companies, event space, affordable housing for teachers, and an eco-gym that will help power the building, among other features. Click on the links below to download the architectural drawings for the current site we are pursuing in San Francisco and the detailed proposal for the Center. The 36,000 square foot vacant lot at 1950 Mission St. is owned by the San Francisco Unified School District, so we are proposing a combination of 69 units of affordable housing for teachers and a green community development center where the teachers can learn about the green economy and then take that knowledge into the school system.
See our architectural plan and proposal.
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Green Careers & Curriculum Documents |
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We see Green Careers and new paradigm Green Currilculum as the key tilting-point change agents for the emerging sustainable "Green Economy." The Global Citizen Center is actively involved as catalyst in Green Career Education—and developing, testing and disseminating Green Curriculum and open-sourse Web-based learning managment platforms.
Please feel free to download the PDF material below to support your green career goals and/or green curriculum program objectives.
Green Careers Links & Reports
Link to: Green Collar Blog: News and Resources on Green Collar Jobs
 Green Career Website Links
Green-Collar Jobs in America March 2008
Green Collar Jobs Report Pinder-Hughes 2007
Green Collar Jobs United Nations Report 2008
Green Jobs US Council of Mayors 2008
Green Curriculum
Green Your Campus Curriculum
Chief Environmental Officer Curriculum
Green Guardians Curriculum
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General public awareness of sustainability and its related issues has risen considerably in recent years. Despite this trend, real changes have been slow to come. According to a 2004 Gallup poll, over 60% of the American electorate believe that the environment should be an important legislative issue. Unfortunately, this broad-based verbal support does not always translate into action. Despite more than a quarter-century of Earth Days, the rise of Green activism, and the growth of environmental school curricula, the general public is lazy when it comes to pursuing the alternatives needed to secure our planet’s future. The Global Citizen Center believes that four primary factors impede our progress toward a more sustainable and just future.
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The primary objective of the Global Citizen Center is to facilitate strategic, cross-sector, regional collaboration among the individuals and organizations addressing sustainability and social justice. The Center will achieve this objective through various programmatic initiatives and by developing a mixed-use facility that will house and support the work of a mission-aligned mix of tenants. The Center’s commitment to collaboration will be a guiding consideration in designing its programs and facilities.
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The Green Economy is an emerging marketplace that seeks to
optimize the synergy among three sets of values: social, environmental and financial. This is
most commonly referred to as the "triple bottom line."
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Threadbanger's interview with Green Festival Co Founder |
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Click here to see an amazing virtual preview of the Global Citizen Center in Second Life. Second LIfe provides an interactive online society within a 3D world, where users can explore, shop, socialize, innovate and exchange ideas. Discover the endless possibilities that exist for the green marketplace in the virtual adaptation of the Global Citizen Center!
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