San Diego Business Journal
By Marty Graham

As one of the nation’s top solar generating cities, San Diego is a popular place for the business of solar installation. The city has the most solar installations and generating power in the state and more solar rooftops than either Los Angeles or oh-so-green San Francisco, according to advocacy group Environment California.
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SF Chronicle
By Orson Aguilar

The $250 million that California will save by slashing vital rehabilitation programs for prisoners will cost many times that much in increased crime, drug abuse and ruined lives. Every Californian will be hurt by these “economies” that really aren’t economies at all.
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The Oakland Tribune

Advocacy groups are stepping up efforts to get California’s voters of color to apply for spots on the 14-member Citizens Redistricting Commission created under Proposition 11 of 2008 to reform how the state’s Legislative boundaries are drawn.
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American Banker
By Orson Aguilar and Earl Skip Cooper 2nd

Though President Obama has told the bankers that his administration is the only thing standing between them and the pitchforks, it remains to be seen whether those considered “too big to fail” will get a free ride. Many community leaders, and the Congressional Black Caucus, are afraid they might.

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Mercury News
By Pete Carrillo and Orson Aguilar
Special to the Mercury News

In 2008, California reform-minded voters gave themselves the power to redraw legislative lines in California when they passed Proposition 11, the Voters First Act. This will be done through a soon-to-be appointed statewide Citizens Redistricting Commission.
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in Oakland February 13, 2010

PG&E has been shutting off power for low income customers at a near record pace. During an emergency meeting at the CPUC, Greenlining urged all California utilities to stop shutting off power during the holidays. The utilities agreed.  See our victory in the news below!

· Tuesday – Lead story on CBS 11pm News

· Wednesday – Aired at 5pm on ABC News

· Thursday – Aired all morning on KCBS Radio

· Thursday – Lead Story in SF Chronicle Business Section

Contact:
Orson Aguilar
Executive Director
510-926-4005 office
510-552-0493 cell
orsona@greenlining.org

Yesterday the Greenlining Institute launched a state-wide initiative that seeks to ensure that the new Citizens Redistricting Commission represents California’s diverse population. The redistricting commission resulted from Proposition 11 which was passed by voters last year. This commission will redraw the lines for the state’s Assembly, Senate, and Board of Equalization. Previously, this duty was held by members of the legislature.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Joshua Arce (Brightline) 415-252-9700
Samuel Kang (Greenlining) 510-926-4004

Thirty Percent Low-Income Community Workforce Unparalled In Green Sector, Start Date In November

October 14, 2009, San Francisco, CA—There will be no better case study on the potential for green jobs to create a pathway out of poverty than when San Francisco’s 5-megawatt, 25,000-panel Sunset Reservoir solar project breaks ground this November.  In April of this year, San Francisco’s CityBuild program began working with San Francisco-based Recurrent Energy to channel green jobs advocates’ and city policymakers’ desire to see no less than 30% of the project’s workforce drawn from the city’s most underserved and unemployed neighborhoods.  CityBuild and San Francisco community-based organizations will soon begin the process of recruiting qualified economically disadvantaged residents who have been trained in a variety of skills, including solar installation, in an effort to revitalize the city’s most vulnerable communities.

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MEDIA CONTACT: Bailey Gilchrist
202-534-1720

78 percent of Americans see pharmaceutical industry deals as harmful

Berkley, CA– Monday September 14, 2009 – The Greenlining Institute today reacted to a survey conducted by the Lombardo Consulting Group which shows that Americans are losing confidence in the health care reform process.  The national poll found that an overwhelming number of poll respondents believe that “side deals” between Washington decision makers and the pharmaceutical industry have “seriously compromised efforts to enact real reform of the healthcare system.”

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