Creating an Economy that Works for All

Together, we’re tackling climate change, building fair trading systems, stopping corporate abuse, and growing the green economy. Here are just a few of the highlights of what we have accomplished in 2009:

• Together we took the lead in stopping six more new coal-fired power plants.
• Together we proposed to the Obama Administration new ways to raise trillions of dollars to finance a clean energy future—one that curbs climate change, provides thousands of new jobs, and rebuilds our economy.
• Together we introduced Fair Trade to over 250,000 families—with our Halloween ‘Reverse Trick-or-Treat’ campaign.
• Together we released a powerful series of system-changing reports for policymakers and industry leaders to make real long-term changes towards sustainability—in the airline, paper, finance, and clean-tech industries.
• Together we’ve provided millions of Americans with the resources and information to go green and protect those hardest hit by the economic crisis, to invest in local communities, and to leave no green business behind.

For 26 years, Green America has led people-powered economic strategies to address the most pressing social and environmental issues of our times. This past year, our nation desperately felt the repercussion of a fallen economic system, one based on greed—that worked for few and sacrificed many.

What you and I have known for years—that the economy is not working for people and the planet—is now becoming clear to everyone. Our work today is more crucial than ever.

We must speed the way from greed to green. We must push harder to protect vulnerable people and a vulnerable planet.

The interconnected economic, climate, food and water crises remind us of the need for big, systemic, long-term change toward sustainability. Now more than ever, our work together for a green economy is exactly the right work to put our country back on track. We look forward to the journey ahead with you.

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