St. Louis, along with four other US cities, was honored this month by the Annual Conference of Mayors for its leadership in green jobs training. The U.S. Conference of Mayors selected non-profit organizations in each of the five cities to receive grants from the Wal-Mart Foundation to support and expand training programs for green jobs. Go!Green Program in St. Louis received $550,000 in grant funding.

Go!Green is a collaboration of St. Patrick Center, the City’s SLATE, Gateway Greening, and the National Corn Ethanol Research Center. The program consists of two parts: 1) The City Seeds Urban Farm Project which trains homeless individuals in green horticulture- preparing them for jobs in landscaping, turf maintenance, nurseries, gardening retailers, grounds-keeping, arboriculture, floriculture and other green-care jobs and 2) The Go! Network, created this year to train professionals who have lost their jobs due to the current economic crisis in biofuels production and related fields.

For the full press release and more information on the Wal-Mart Foundation- http://walmartstores.com/FactsNews/NewsRoom/9199.aspx

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Tags: City Seeds Urban Farm, Conference of Mayors, Gateway Greening, Go!Green, green jobs, SLATE, St. Patrick Center, Wal-Mart Foundation

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