Gill Harper, Business Manager at Ashden Award winner St Columb Minor, has just returned from San Francisco as part of a learning exchange organised by the Institute of Public Policy and Research (IPPR). Following on from her blog in April, Gill today outlines the places she visited and what she learnt on days four and five of the trip. Gill meets Emily Kirsch of the inspirational Ella Baker Center, leader of the green-collar jobs campaign, she also visits an urban ‘releaf’ project which is creating jobs through planting trees in cities, an independent think-tank advocating green manufacturing called the Breakthrough Institute and the national organisation Green for All which is building a green jobs movement. Finally, Gill encounters Roots of Success which is bringing green ideas into the curriculum.
