The New Apollo Program Fact Sheet
The New Apollo Program will generate billions of dollars in savings each year through greater efficiency in buildings, industrial facilities, power plants, and the power grid. It will generate and invest $500 billion over the next ten years and create more than five million high quality green-collar jobs.
Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency is one of the tools in The New Apollo Program toolbox that will create a clean energy, good jobs economy. And it’s a big tool, one that offers great opportunity. By 2035, three-quarters of U.S. buildings will be either new or substantially renovated. And energy efficiency pays for itself with energy savings and creates high-quality jobs.
Apollo Weekly Update, 11/21/08: Rescuing Detroit
This week, the Apollo Alliance program staff spent two days in Detroit with our colleagues from Apollo affiliates in 12 states and 5 cities. Our work focused on how to begin scaling up the clean energy, good jobs opportunity that Apollo envisioned in 2004 and that Barack Obama embraced as one of his campaign’s central messages.
Apollo Feedback: Detroit Bailout Raises Support, Ire
Last week we let you know that in partnership with our members the Apollo Alliance supported government intervention to rescue the American auto industry with a $25 billion bridge loan. We reached this conclusion knowing of the industry’s long-time recalcitrance on fuel mileage, climate safeguards, product lines, and the imperious behavior of its chief executives, who in case you don’t know by now, flew to Washington last week on corporate jets and without any clear plan for how they would use the money.
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Apollo Weekly Update, 11/13/08: President-elect and New Principles
On August 4, 2008, Barack Obama formally unveiled a clean energy strategy to wean America from foreign oil and to begin solving climate change. His New Energy For America plan is a ten-year, $150 billion initiative that not coincidentally is the same title of our own 2004 study and entirely consistent with the goals of The New Apollo Program, which we rolled out in six states last month. All three plans call for scaling up the tools and practices of a clean energy economy, and charting a new development strategy for the United States.
Apollo Feedback: What Obama Should Do First, Part Two
We asked what President-elect Obama should do first. Almost 100 of you from the Apollo Nation responded. There are lots of good ideas here in the second part of our Feedback feature highlighting your suggestions for the new president. The first part is here.
Apollo Weekly Update, 10/31/08: Hope Made Real and Visible
Happy Halloween. Maybe it is a little scary out there. More so than at any time in recent history the United States nervously waits at the junction where grievance and hope meet. On Tuesday, America decides that it wants to head in the direction of hope.
The Apollo Alliance and the clean energy, good jobs economy we are working so hard to help build represents hope made real and visible. As Apollo Chairman Phil Angelides wrote this week on our blog and in an op-ed we are circulating across the nation: “Clean energy isn’t a mirage. It’s the fastest growing industrial sector in the United States. It is already generating $25 billion a year in sales and revenue, is growing at 30 percent a year.”
Apollo Feedback: What Comes First For New President? Green-Collar Jobs, Economy, Clean Energy, Says Apollo Nation
When we asked what comes first for President-elect Barack Obama, almost 100 of you responded. The Economy. The War. Green-collar jobs. Sun. Wind. Zero-emission vehicles. Transit. One writer suggested Just For Men, to cover the new president’s sure-to-gray-hair. Take a look. So many of you replied that we divided the responses into two Feedback features. This is part one. Part two is here. Thanks so much.
Apollo Weekly Update, 11/7/08: New President, Clean Energy Successes
With a measure of restraint and grace that was almost at odds with the burst of joyful tears and global celebration that his election victory prompted, President-elect Barack Obama Tuesday night described one more time his allegiance to a new kind of economy that fixes “a planet in peril,” and addresses the “new energy to harness and new jobs to be created.”
Fast Track For National Rail Transit
MINNEAPOLIS - Technically speaking “light rail transit” encompasses an urban rail line capable of carrying 2,000 to 20,000 passengers an hour at speeds reaching 70 miles per hour. “Heavy rail” describes longer, faster commuter and inter-city trains.
