The Global Warming Story Tour took on Green Jobs in Nashville, Tennessee. On the National Green Jobs Day of Action more than fifty people - Congressional candidates, singers and performers, activists, students from Fisk and Vanderbilt, and Greenpeace members – all gathered in a local community garden to call on Congress to support local solutions to Global Warming – Green Jobs!

The entire event was powered by the sun – the sound system and the camera for sending solar powered messages to Congress. By supporting a new green economy we have the opportunity to address the economic crisis and global warming with local solutions. We can provide jobs that will build a clean energy infrastructure here in Tennessee and provide nearly 45,000 jobs for people that need them.

I heard this sentiment from young people who are working with a local organization – Y Build, which gives young, urban men between the ages of 18-24 the training they need to get construction type jobs. It was inspiring to see this kind of program already in action right here in Tennessee – ready and waiting in the wings for the skills to start the clean energy revolution and build its infrastructure. Local solutions to global warming are here – we just need Congress to be as committed as we are.

-Carrie Wisinski
Greenpeace field organizer, TN-05