{"id":565658,"date":"2010-04-22T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-valerie-martinez-green-jobs-coalition-earth-day-40-people\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:11:15","slug":"valerie-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/565658","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Art: Nat Damm<\/a><\/p>\n

\nValerie Martinez<\/p>\n

Executive Director, Indigenous People’s Green Jobs Coalition
Minneapolis, Minn.<\/p>\n

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Valerie Martinez, a 31-year-old Mexican\/Cree\/Apache\/Ojibwe woman,
\nspreads the benefits of the green economy to American-Indian
\ncommunities in Minnesota through the Indigenous People’s Green Jobs Coalition<\/a>. She’s also working with urban-ag pioneer Will Allen<\/a> to bring small-scale sustainable food production to Little Earth of United Tribes<\/a>, an affordable-housing community for Native Americans in south Minneapolis. <\/p>\n

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Follow Martinez on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Meet more people who are redefining green<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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by Grist .series-head{background:url(http:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/2\/forty_people\/40people_header_C.gif) no-repeat; height:68px; text-indent:-9999px;} h3.subscribe-head{padding-left:5px;background-color:black;color:#ff8400;} dl.series-nav{margin-top:-15px;} .media {float:left; width:300px; margin-right:10px;} Art: Nat Damm Valerie Martinez Executive Director, Indigenous People’s Green Jobs Coalition Minneapolis, Minn. Valerie Martinez, a 31-year-old Mexican\/Cree\/Apache\/Ojibwe woman, spreads the benefits of the green economy to American-Indian communities in Minnesota through the Indigenous People’s Green Jobs Coalition. She’s also working with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-565658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}