She’ll be speaking at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern on a panel entitled Environmental Conflict and Climate Change: The Grassroots vs Big Green

• view the live feed here at 12pm Eastern!

Then, at  10:30am Pacific / 1:30pm Eastern  she’ll be speaking on a panel entitled The Unusual Suspects: The Surprise Environmentalists Who Are Spreading the Clean Energy Gospel

• view the live feed here at 1:30 Eastern!

She’ll also be kicking off the African American Caucus at 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern – you’ll have to follow along on twitter to see what’s happening there. No live feed!

Also, don’t miss her appearance at the Opening Keynote event at 7pm Pacific / 10pm Eastern, alongside Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz, Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead, Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, AFSCME president Gerald McEntee, Nevada Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford, and pundit and comedian Elon James White.

• Online stream there begins at 10pm Eastern here.

Keep checking back on the Majora Carter group blog, facebook and twitter for more coverage of the Netroots Nation Conference!

Engaged Philanthropy Conference in Minneapolis, MN
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General snapshots:
hibz@majoracarter: more green, less crime, more girl self esteem.. Then why not invest in green social economy #ylsmc #reworktw
bseale@MajoraCarter at #ReworkTW: enviro justice not only about polar bears. it’s also about giving people opportunities to be better.
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Make It Right: Now’s the time to start restoring wetlands on a grand scale.

Before the Gulf Coast’s 100-percent-human-made oil spill disaster, there was Katrina. That hurricane wasn’t the strongest to hit New Orleans. Forty years earlier, Hurricane Betsy packed an even stronger punch. The difference in damage was due in large part to the city’s surrounding horticultural infrastructure—in this case, wetlands and cypress groves. This plant life provided a buffer from storm surges. These natural defenses were systematically removed (paid for by our tax dollars) to make it easier for oil companies to move product. Stripped of these defenses, the other major culprit—poorly built levies—were unable to hold back the undaunted waters.

During my work with the Make It Right Foundation to design a green-collar workforce training and placement program, I met people who recognize the value of these wetland systems for the security they help provide. They inspired me to look deeper into how these valuable assets could be improved and leveraged to provide well-paying jobs for people to do that work.

Today, wetlands along the Gulf Coast are all under threat from the oil, regardless of their proximity to oil routes, and must be protected and rebuilt. It’s my goal to see a massive wetland restoration project with a job training and placement system attached. These are good jobs that can provide therapy for people returning from war or prison, or living in generational poverty. The value of the inland property they are protecting far outweighs the costs of restoration.

Since we know climate change predicts more and more severe weather, we need to put Americans to work restoring wetlands on a grand scale, right now. Jobs, environmental restoration, and reduced risk—this is the kind of shovel-ready project the U.S. needs yesterday.

Nancy Knowlton, Gretel Ehrlich, Ched Myers, Elaine Enns, Calvin DeWitt, Majora Carter, James Lee Burke, and Bill Wylie-Kellermann also share their thoughts on Sojourner’s website.

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Join us on Monday, June 14th, 2010 – 8am CST, 9am EST with live twitter-feed of the conference, or just search for hashtag #neocon10 on Twitter.

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Join us here on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 – 3pm GMT, 4pm CEST, 8am PST, 11am EST live twitter-feed of the conference, or just search for hashtag #reworktw on Twitter. You can also view the live video here.

5th Annual Global YES Summit -Rework the World

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Watch Majora explain how creating green projects and jobs set the stage for communities to see themselves in a different light. From there, beautiful things can happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being.

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