By building on numerous practical precedents and expanding our vision beyond green jobs to green ownership, we can offer America’s workers living wage (or better) employment and the chance to build their wealth and assets through an equity stake in the businesses in which they work . This report argues that joining the vision of the green economy with practical and well-established mechanisms and strategies of community wealth building and broadly shared ownership can also result in new community-stabilizing strategies: innovations that can begin to turn back the tide of disinvestment that has overwhelmed our urban areas in recent decades .