Apollo Weekly Update, 1/30/09: Obama’s Clean Energy Start, Commendations From Pelosi, Stimulus Passes House
On Wednesday this week, as the House neared passage of the economic stimulus bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the floor to commend the bill’s clean energy, good jobs vision and specifically noted the Apollo Alliance’s assistance and support.
“The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act makes an historic, job-creating investment in clean, efficient, American energy,” said Speaker Pelosi (see pix left). “To put people back to work and reduce our dependence on foreign oil, we set the goal of doubling our renewable energy production and renovating public buildings to make them more energy efficient. That is why the Apollo Alliance coalition of many, many groups committed to energy independence for our country and reducing climate change has said this package is ‘big, bold and will serve as a down payment on long-neglected investments in a clean energy, good jobs, made-in-America economy.’”
Greening Chicago One Roof At A Time
CHICAGO - In the blue-collar birthplace of the skyscraper, a city of concrete and steel, a green movement is building upon, well, buildings.
Since 2005, Chicago has embarked upon an ambitious plan to turn the city’s barren rooftops into urban oases. Thanks in large part to Mayor Richard M. Daley’s incentive program offering $5,000 grants to residences and small businesses, as well as requirements that some large retailers install green roofs as part of doing business in the city, Chicago now has more living green roofs than any other city in the country, say authorities.
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Apollo Weekly Update, 1/23/09: Inaugural Address, Clean Energy, Stimulus
Five times in his inaugural address President Barack Obama noted the urgency of the three crises - energy, climate change, and jobs - that have pushed the nation to a code red emergency and newly galvanized our work at the Apollo Alliance.
Comparing Approved House Stimulus With Apollo Recovery Act
Congressional leaders are preparing for an intense debate over the $825 billion stimulus package that the president and House leaders unveiled last week. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill, composed of $550 billion in investments and $275 billion in tax cuts, is the largest single spending proposal in American history.
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Apollo Weekly Update, 1/16/09: Delegation to DC, Clean Energy Stimulus Closely Matches Apollo Proposals
This week, as the incoming administration and Congressional leaders proposed an $825 billion economic stimulus package, a 10-person delegation of labor, environmental, and business leaders from the Apollo Alliance also was in Washington to make the case for the Apollo Economic Recovery Act that would commit $50 billion in investments in clean energy development and job growth. The Apollo delegation also called on the nation’s top lawmakers to look beyond the immediate stimulus to a long-term energy policy like that proposed in The New Apollo Program. Such a policy would include a “cap and invest” program to reduce carbon emissions and direct strategic investment toward a new clean energy economy with broadly shared prosperity.
2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs National Conference
With the economy at the top of the national agenda, the 2009 Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference will be the leading forum for shaping the national debate about the economic potential of investments in clean energy and green technologies.
Join us February 4 – 6, 2009, in Washington, D.C. to connect with more than 2,000 government leaders and decision-makers, as well as business, industry, labor and environmental organizations for three days of educational programs, speakers and networking opportunities. Help forge the agenda for the new green economy.
Conference-goers also have the opportunity to head to Capitol Hill February 4 for Green Jobs Advocacy Day to educate lawmakers about the enormous potential of the green economy. On February 5, companies, academic programs, non-profits and government agencies can highlight the latest innovations in the green economy at the Green Jobs Expo.
Apollo Weekly Update, 1/8/09: $100 Billion Clean Energy Stimulus, Happy New Year
Even in this era of costly crisis and even more expensive rescue, $50 billion is still a lot of money. That sum or even more is what aides and Congressional leaders say President-elect Barack Obama will propose this month to spend each year over the next two to build new transit lines, weatherize homes, improve energy efficiency in buildings, manufacture clean next-generation vehicles, and create new green-collar jobs. Happy New Year in this moment of such promise and excitement.
Clean Energy Is Foundation of Proposed Stimulus
Even in this era of costly crisis and even more expensive rescue, $112.9 billion is still a lot of money. That sum is what Congressional leaders and President-elect Barack Obama propose to spend over the next two years to build new transit lines, weatherize buildings, manufacture clean next-generation vehicles, develop wind and solar power, make state and federal vehicle fleets more energy efficient, and create new green-collar jobs.
Bay State’s Clean Energy Development Strategy
BOSTON - The Bay State is rewriting its energy policy, betting that the clean energy sector is the state’s golden ticket to prosperity. In the last two years, the Legislature passed a number of bills to generate a comprehensive clean technology and environment strategy culminating with a law spurring green jobs through targeted state investment.
Evergreen Solar Finds Profit In The Sun
MARLBORO, Mass. - Four million manufacturing jobs have vanished from the American economy since 2000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or almost 25 percent of the entire manufacturing workforce. Layoffs at major companies are nearly daily news
But it’s important to remember that it is still too early to sound the sector’s death knell. While some industries are indeed still laying off hundreds if not thousands of workers, others are ramping up to take them in.
