Michelle Obama
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Obama’s Clean Energy Service Corps will train people for green jobs–eventually
He’s ready — put him to work.President Barack Obama created a new Clean Energy Service Corps on Tuesday as part of a landmark national service bill he signed into law. That could be good news for young Americans wanting to get a foot in the door of the clean energy industry — but they’ll have […]
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Using food as a tool of development, not extraction
When Michelle Obama plunged a shovel into the White House lawn last Friday, she wasn’t just preparing a productive vegetable-garden bed. She’s was also tilling fertile ground for debate about new directions for the food system. In the New York Times, Andrew Martin helpfully got the ball rolling in a recent piece called “Is a […]