– you can answer the door. They won’t roll tape without your permission, and they only want to ask you some questions about your utility bills and how things are going for you in this economy. And if you’re lucky (and you give them permission), you just might end up in a starring (or supporting) role in their video documentary on how the emerging green economy affects the heart of Knoxville.

“We are a group of about a dozen people in our late teens and early twenties,” said Jerome Johnson, 23, a youth project coordinator for SEEED – Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development -- a newly-formed green community development nonprofit organization. “Some of us are black, some white; some college students, some not,” said Johnson. “Some of us have jobs, but most of us just aren’t sure how we’re gonna get one in an economy with record-high unemployment.” SEEED’s purpose is to increase access to energy - saving programs for residents and “green collar” jobs for youth in the heart of Knoxville. The Listening Project was created and is being organized by local inner city youth. The SEEED youth are conducting and documenting door-to-door interviews about how home weatherization and green jobs might affect residents in low-to-moderate income neighborhoods in the heart of Knoxville.

SEEED youth will have a premier screening of their mini-documentary at a public forum on Pellissippi State's Magnolia Campus, Thursday, November 19th, entitled How the Green Economy Affects the Heart of Knoxville.

The forum will also present a panel of experts from government, business, utilities, and nonprofits, who will give overviews of weatherization and other energy-saving programs and “green-collar” job opportunities for low-to-moderate income residents in the heart of Knoxville.