Apollo Promotes Clean Energy Manufacturing Success Story and IMPACT Act at Michigan Event
This Thursday, the Apollo Alliance partnered with Eagle Manufacturing Corporation of Shelby Township, Mich., to spotlight Eagle as a model for how traditional manufacturers can benefit from moving into the clean energy market. Eagle manufactures automated robotic punching systems and special machine tools and has recently begun producing biodegradable, compostable plates. On Thursday, with Apollo President Jerome Ringo at his side, Eagle CEO Brent Short announced that his company is now going to partner with Michigan-based Mariah Power to build parts and serve as a local distributor for Maria Power’s Windspire residential wind turbines.
“Our strategic plan is to provide more manufacturing jobs by taking our expertise and diversifying into the defense, alternative energy, and green bio-friendly consumer product industries,” Short told the crowd of journalists, government officials, businesspeople and environmental activists who attended the event at Eagle’s manufacturing facility.
In addition to spotlighting Eagle as a budding clean energy manufacturing firm, the Thursday event emphasized the need for federal investments to create and retain manufacturing jobs in Michigan—whose unemployment rate has now reached 15.2 percent—and across the country. Eagle, Mariah Power and 67 other manufacturers, distributors and assorted businesses in Michigan have joined the Apollo Alliance in endorsing U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown’s clean energy manufacturing bill, the IMPACT Act.
“Eagle and hundreds of other manufacturing organizations around the country are calling on Congress to support the IMPACT Act, which will help all of us domestic manufacturers enter into green products and allow us to diversify our product portfolios and, most importantly, add manufacturing jobs,” Short said.
Apollo President Jerome Ringo spoke at the Michigan event. Other speakers included Dave Booth, principal of MasTech, parent company of Mariah Power; Dan Luria, research director at the Michigan Manufacturing Tech Center; Paul Gieleghem, chairman of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners; David Austin, president of IBEW Local 58; and Liesl Clark, deputy director of the Michigan Dept. of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth.
Click here to read a great article about the Michigan event in the Macomb Daily.
In Other News From Michigan…
While in Michigan, several Apollo staff members, including Jerome Ringo and Apollo Michigan Coordinator Dana Sevakis, also took a tour of the UNI-SOLAR manufacturing plant in Auburn Hills. UNI-SOLAR manufactures an innovative thin-film solar laminate that is being used on commercial, government, military and school rooftops. The primary market for the company’s product is currently Europe, but if the U.S. adopts a national renewable energy standard to increase demand for solar power here in America, you may be seeing more thin-film solar laminates in your neighborhood.
States Use ARRA Funds to Spur Clean Energy Manufacturing
As momentum builds for national clean energy manufacturing legislation like the IMPACT Act, many states are taking the need to galvanize clean energy manufacturing into their own hands. Last week, the Department of Energy announced a number of Recovery Act grants that would be distributed to states through the State Energy Program (SEP). Illinois received $40.5 million (and will receive an additional $50 million+ later) to jumpstart the manufacture of wind turbine components in Illinois, among other clean energy projects. Funds will go to help manufacturers retool to enter the clean energy market and become more energy efficient.
According to ChicagoBusiness.com, Illinois is targeting wind component manufacturing in its ARRA State Energy Program grant because the Chicago area is home to many makers of gears and other components that could be used in wind turbines and other kinds of renewable energy systems.
Wisconsin is pursuing a similar approach but is taking it ever further. According to a statement by Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, “Wisconsin is the only state to target its SEP funds exclusively to manufacturing. Wisconsin has a larger percentage of employees in manufacturing than any other state, and we can leverage our innovative, high-skilled workforce to create clean energy products and processes.”
Wisconsin will use its $55 million in SEP Recovery Act funding for retooling Wisconsin businesses to enable them to produce renewable energy systems and energy efficient products; reducing fossil fuel use in manufacturing; and investing in renewable energy projects.
Meanwhile, the state actions to support clean energy manufacturing couldn’t come at a better time. As the U.S. government has yet to pass a clean energy and climate bill, China—which has been criticized for its refusal to take action to limit greenhouse gas emissions—is already well on its way to becoming the global leader in solar manufacturing, according to an article that ran in The New York Times this week.
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California a Model for National Clean Energy Shift
State’s Energy Efficiency Policy Has Created 1.5 Million Jobs Since Enactment
SAN FRANCISCO – Phil Angelides, chairman of the Apollo Alliance, today released the following statement extolling the legacy of California’s groundbreaking clean and efficient energy initiatives:
“Between 1977 and 2007, California’s landmark energy efficiency policies led to the creation of nearly 1.5 million jobs. We have stabilized our energy use while that of many other states has increased by 50 percent or more. California’s clean energy policies have benefited our climate, our environment, and have created countless opportunities for traditionally underserved populations.
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“Many of California’s innovative green initiatives have been emulated elsewhere. For example, California’s proposed Clean Cars law led 13 other states to adopt similar pollution-cutting measures. In many ways, California can serve as both a model and justification for the national shift to clean energy. According to a recent Pew study, the rate of clean energy job growth in California over the past decade has outpaced overall job growth, and we lead the nation in the number of jobs, businesses and venture capital in the clean energy economy.”
In 2008, California Apollo Alliance helped pass AB 3018, which established the state’s Green Collar Jobs Council; AB 1451, which provides tax incentives for newly constructed solar systems; and helped strengthen AB 118 – which established a low carbon fuel fund – to include workforce training and manufacturing incentives. California Apollo is currently focused on the successful implementation of AB 118, the 33 percent renewable portfolio standard, and AB 32, California’s landmark greenhouse gas legislation.
Members of the California Apollo Alliance Steering Committee include the California Labor Federation; California League of Conservation Voters; Center on Race, Poverty and Environment, Community Fuels; Ella Baker Center for Human Rights; International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW); Marina Mechanical; Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC); Sierra Club; State Building and Construction Trades Council of California; and SunPower Corporation.
Chattanooga Choo-Choo Chugs Off The Grid
Chattanooga, TN - Twenty years ago, under popular mayor Gene Roberts, Chattanooga launched an effort to rejuvenate its deteriorating downtown. In 1992, the city opened what at the time was the world’s largest freshwater aquarium. That same year, the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) opened an electric transit vehicle (ETV) shuttle service with the aim of bringing people – and businesses – back downtown. Read more
Apollo Alliance, Eagle Manufacturing Corporation Call Clean Energy Investments Key to Halting U.S. Manufacturing Decline
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, MI - The Apollo Alliance and Eagle Manufacturing Corporation (EMC) co-hosted an event this morning at EMC headquarters in Shelby Township, Mich., to push for federal investments that will create and retain clean energy manufacturing jobs in Michigan and across the country. EMC, a manufacturer of precision automated robotic machinery and tooling, also announced an agreement to make parts and serve as a local distributor for Mariah Power’s Windspire residential wind turbines.
Apollo and EMC touted the “Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) Act,” a bill authored by U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), as the best way to boost domestic clean energy manufacturing and ensure that new clean energy jobs stay in the United States. The bill would establish a 2-year, $30 billion revolving loan fund to help small and mid-sized firms retool, expand, or establish domestic clean energy manufacturing operations and become more energy efficient. Both EMC and Mariah Power are among the 69 Michigan-based companies - and more than 170 across the nation - that have officially endorsed the IMPACT Act.
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“Locally produced clean energy will be a crucial component of our state’s economic turnaround,” said Brent Short, CEO and owner of Eagle Manufacturing Corporation. “Our company was built on providing innovative, cutting-edge manufacturing solutions, which is also a fitting description of the IMPACT Act. This bill will put our citizens back to work in good jobs, help rebuild U.S. manufacturing, and allow Michigan businesses to be leaders in the clean energy economy.”
Though the stimulus and renewable energy policies being considered by Congress - such as a Renewable Energy Standard and a carbon cap - will generate unprecedented demand for clean energy parts and systems, 70 percent of America’s clean and efficient energy systems are currently produced abroad, a disturbing trend that IMPACT is designed to reverse.
“U.S. manufacturing was once the backbone of the U.S. economy,” said Jerome Ringo, president of the Apollo Alliance. “But as other countries have created millions of jobs by investing in their own clean energy sectors, American manufacturing has suffered. The IMPACT Act will help ensure that new clean energy jobs stay in America, and that we’re no longer reliant on other nations to meet our energy needs.”
In June, U.S. manufacturers continued to shed jobs at an alarming rate, accounting for nearly 30 percent of overall U.S. job losses. During the last ten years, Michigan has hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs, contributing heavily to the state’s 15.2 percent unemployment rate - the highest in the country. But a recent survey of 358 Michigan clean energy firms conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that employment in the clean energy sector grew by 7.7 percent from 2005 through 2008, while total private employment declined by 5.4 percent during the same period.
In April, Apollo Alliance released its Green Manufacturing Action Plan (GreenMAP), which was the blueprint for the IMPACT Act. Apollo’s GreenMAP lays out aggressive steps to scale up production of American-made clean energy systems and components while making U.S. factories more energy efficient.
For the full list of IMPACT endorsers, visit ApolloAlliance.org or click here. In addition to Ringo and Short, speakers at today’s press event included: Dave Booth, principal of MasTech, parent company of Mariah Power; Dan Luria, research director at the Michigan Manufacturing Tech Center; Paul Gieleghem, chairman of the Macomb County Board of Commissioners; David Austin, president of IBEW Local 58; and Liesl Clark, deputy director of the Michigan Dept. of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth.
The Apollo Alliance is a coalition of unlikely and diverse interests - including labor, business, environmental, and community leaders - working to advance a bold vision for the next American economy, centered on clean energy and good jobs.
Make It In America Webinar Draws A Crowd
This week, the Apollo Alliance sponsored a successful webinar about the need to bring investment in clean energy manufacturing to the forefront of the national clean energy debate. Nearly 100 people joined the webinar to hear from Kate Gordon, vice president of energy policy at the Center for American Progress and senior policy advisor to the Apollo Alliance; and two clean energy business leaders: Michael Peck, principal at MAPA Group and a member of Apollo’s board, and Bill Keith, president of Indiana-based SunRise Solar.
“The U.S. economy needs to diversify again, it needs to recommit to manufacturing, to agriculture, to sectors that are not financial and services sectors … that we don’t want to be totally reliant on a debt-focused economy. We need to be making things, we need to be exporting things, we need to be using things that we made. This is why manufacturing is so important, and the clean energy economy is an enormous opportunity to re-commit to manufacturing,” Gordon told the webinar participants.
The webinar, entitled “Make it in America: Manufacturing and the Energy/Climate Bill,” was co-sponsored by RE-AMP, a network of nonprofits and foundations working on climate change and energy policy in the upper Midwest. You can find and listen to the webinar in its entirety.
Tasked with facilitating the webinar was Apollo Alliance’s new policy director, Matt Mayrl. Matt’s ties to Apollo run deep, having worked with Apollo when we were based at the Center on Wisconsin Strategy.
We’re tremendously excited to welcome Matt to the Apollo team. Most recently, Matt worked for the city of Boston in the Mayor’s office and the Office of Administration & Finance, where he was an adviser to the city’s chief financial and operating officer.
Matt was one of Apollo’s first staffers, helping to build the Apollo Strategy Center and coauthoring New Energy for States and New Energy for Cities. Matt has established himself as a national expert on one the country’s fastest growing economic development finance programs – tax increment financing (TIF). Through his work with the City of Boston, Apollo, and on TIF issues, Matt has developed expertise in public finance, government management, and energy and economic development policy.
You can also learn more about another of the webinar participants, Bill Keith of SunRise Solar, in a Signature Story that was published this week on the Apollo Alliance website. Keith is a former roofer who founded a solar-powered attic fan company out of his garage in 2003. Despite the company’s humble beginnings, its profits have grown from $40,000 in 2003 to a projected $4 million in 2009, demonstrating again the economic potential of clean energy manufacturing in America.
Coming Up Next Week …
*Don’t miss Apollo Board Chair Phil Angelides on CBS Sunday Morning this Sunday, August 23. He’ll be talking about the long legislative history of trying to bring high-speed rail to California and the U.S., and the costs and benefits of high-speed rail, both for the state and the country. Tune in to your local CBS TV station on Sunday at 9 AM EST (6 AM PST) to find out more about why the Apollo Alliance supports high-speed rail. Click here for some fast facts about high-speed rail.
*On Thursday, August 27, Apollo Alliance will hold an event in Shelby Township, Michigan, to promote the IMPACT Act and feature the clean energy manufacturing success story of the Eagle Manufacturing Corporation. Eagle has been building machinery and doing auto-related work for close to 50 years, and is now preparing to transition into clean energy manufacturing. For more information about the event, contact Apollo’s Michigan Coordinator, Dana Sevakis, at sevakis (at) apolloalliance.org.
P.S. Congratulations to Apollo Alliance intern Jenna Scatena
This week, Jenna Scatena, Apollo’s communications department intern, was named the Climate Community Citizen of the Week. Congratulations, Jenna! Learn more about what Jenna is doing to promote environmental sustainability and climate action at the Climate Community website.
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“Lean and Green” Manufacturing Program Helps Washington’s Small Manufacturers Reduce Energy Use and Waste
When Nature’s Path Foods, an organic cereal manufacturer with a facility in Blaine, Wash., decided that being a green company meant going beyond using organic ingredients in its food, it wasn’t sure where to turn to find out how to green its manufacturing processes. Read more
Sunrise Solar Inc.: Powered by Passion
Few would have predicted the meteoric rise of Sunrise Solar Inc., a Midwest manufacturer of solar-powered attic fans, when company president Bill Keith launched the business in 2003 from his garage in St. John, Indiana. Keith, however, was so confident of the company’s eventual success that he mortgaged his own home to finance the start-up business. Read more
Americans Support Clean Energy and Climate Measures
Although health-care reform has been dominating the headlines in recent weeks, Americans still have clean energy and climate issues on their minds. A new Zogby poll released on Tuesday revealed that 71 percent of likely voters support the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES) passed by the U.S. House of Representatives at the end of June. A majority of those polled also said they want the Senate to take action now on a similar clean energy and climate bill. The poll also asked people about how “efforts to reduce global warming and promote energy” will impact American jobs, and 51 percent of respondents said they believed these efforts would lead to new job creation. This means that despite the efforts of fossil fuel companies and other groups to undermine support for clean energy, good jobs measures, our message is still getting through!
Similar support for clean energy and climate measures was voiced loudly and clearly by high-level policy makers, scientists, and business and labor leaders at the Clean Energy Summit held this Monday in Las Vegas, Nev. The summit was attended by former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore, and several members of the Obama administration. Summit host Harry Reid, the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, couldn’t have put it better when he told the summit attendees, “Today, August 10th, here in Las Vegas, we’re firing the first shots of a new revolution … a clean energy revolution that will create millions of jobs across America and thousands of jobs right here in Nevada.”
Apollo Alliance Board members John Podesta, president and CEO of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Terry O’Sullivan, general president of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, also spoke at the summit. O’Sullivan emphasized that green jobs need to be good jobs in that they should pay good wages and provide benefits. “If it’s not greening the environment, then it’s not a good green job; and if it’s not putting green in workers’ pockets, then it’s not a good green job,” the Environmental News Service quoted O’Sullivan as saying.
Business representatives making presentations at the summit included T. Boone Pickens and Stephanie Burns, president and CEO of Dow Corning. Burns’ comments contradicted the contention that business groups oppose clean energy measures and government investments—a contention that the Apollo Alliance has long disputed. “I believe that with the right mix of incentives, support, private investment and entrepreneurial spirit, together we will not only revitalize our nation’s economy and put people back to work, but we will also help propel America toward a clean, independent and secure energy future,” Burns wrote in a post on the website TriplePundit.com.
Coming Soon: A Clean Energy Manufacturing “Barnstorming Tour” of the Midwest
Toward the end of the Congressional summer recess, Apollo Alliance affiliates in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Missouri will be sponsoring events in Congress members’ home states to highlight the growing support for U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s clean energy manufacturing bill, the Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology (IMPACT) Act. As Apollo Alliance supporters know, last week more than 150 manufacturers and other businesses announced their support for the IMPACT Act, which will help American manufacturers become more energy efficient and retool to enter the clean energy manufacturing market. The barnstorming events are scheduled for the last week in August. If you’re in one of the states listed above and would like to attend or help turn people out for one of the events, please contact the appropriate state coordinator, listed on the state and local page of our website.
In Other News …
*Save the date! The Apollo Alliance is hosting the Right Stuff Awards Dinner on Friday, November 6, 2009 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Please join us at the event to hear our keynote speaker, U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and to celebrate the great progress we’ve made in this year toward a clean energy, good jobs economy! Click here for more information. In coming weeks we’ll be asking you to nominate your favorite clean energy, good jobs pioneer to receive a Right Stuff award. In the meantime, are you interested in sponsoring the event? If so, contact Jessica Partch at partch (at) apolloalliance.org.
*Check out our latest clean energy success story This week, the “Signature Stories” section of our website is featuring an article about Fisher Coachworks, a century-old legend of Detroit automotive manufacturing, which has designed a hybrid bus that’s 300 percent more fuel efficient than conventional diesel models and twice as efficient as current hybrid buses on the market.
You can keep track of the quickening pace of state and federal action on clean energy policy on our Apollo Blog and Daily Digest.
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The Right Stuff Awards
Tickets
$250 – Single Ticket to the Right Stuff Awards Dinner
$1,200 (per couple) – Clean Energy Benefactor Tickets
- Two (2) tickets to the Right Stuff Awards Dinner
- Two (2) invitations to Clean Energy Benefactor reception (prior to dinner) with special guests and keynote speaker U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Apollo Alliance board chair Phil Angelides, and honored awardees
- Listing in program booklet
Table Sponsorship Opportunities
$3,000 – Clean Energy Sponsor
- Tickets for table of ten (10) with preferred seating
- Listing in program booklet, press releases and other media materials
- Acknowledgement for one year on apolloalliance.org with logo and link
- Shared signage with major sponsors at the Right Stuff Awards Dinner check-in
$5,000 – Clean Energy Commander
- Tickets for table of ten (10) with preferred seating
- Listing in program booklet, press releases and other media materials
- Two (2) invitations to Clean Energy Benefactor reception (prior to dinner) with special guests and keynote speaker U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Apollo Alliance board chair Phil Angelides, and honored awardees
- Verbal recognition from stage during event
- Quarter (¼) page advertisement in program booklet
- Acknowledgement for one year on apolloalliance.org with logo and link
- Shared signage with major sponsors at the Right Stuff Awards Dinner check-in
$10,000 – Clean Energy Pioneer
- Tickets for table of ten (10) with preferred seating
- Listing in program booklet, press releases and other media materials
- Four (4) invitations to Clean Energy Benefactor reception (prior to dinner) with special guests and keynote speaker U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Apollo Alliance board chair Phil Angelides, and honored awardees
- Verbal recognition from stage during event
- Half (½) page advertisement in program booklet
- Acknowledgement for one year on apolloalliance.org with logo and link
- Shared signage with major sponsors at the Right Stuff Awards Dinner check-in
$15,000 – Clean Energy Trailblazer
- Tickets for table of ten (10) with preferred seating
- Listing in program booklet, press releases and other media materials
- Six (6) invitations to Clean Energy Benefactor reception (prior to dinner) with special guests and keynote speaker U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Apollo Alliance board chair Phil Angelides, and honored awardees
- Verbal recognition from stage during event
- Full page advertisement in program booklet
- Acknowledgement for one year on apolloalliance.org with logo and link
- Shared signage with major sponsors at the Right Stuff Awards Dinner check-in
$25,000 – Clean Energy Innovator
- Tickets for table of ten (10) with preferred seating
- Listing in program booklet, press releases and other media materials
- Eight (8) invitations to Clean Energy Benefactor reception (prior to dinner) with special guests and keynote speaker U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Apollo Alliance board chair Phil Angelides, and honored awardees
- Verbal recognition from stage during event
- Full page advertisement in program booklet
- Acknowledgement for one year on apolloalliance.org with logo and link
- Shared signage with major sponsors at the Right Stuff Awards Dinner check-in
$50,000 – Clean Energy Catalyst
- Category exclusivity
- Tickets for table of ten (10) with premier seating
- Listing in press releases and other media materials
- Logo or listing inclusion in invitation and program booklet
- Ten (10) invitations to Clean Energy Benefactor reception (prior to dinner) with special guests and keynote speaker U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, Apollo Alliance board chair Phil Angelides, and honored awardees
- Verbal recognition from stage during event
- Full page advertisement inside the front and back cover in program booklet
- Acknowledgement for one year on apolloalliance.org with logo and link
- Premier placement of logo or listing on shared signage with major sponsors at the Right Stuff Awards Dinner check-in
Right Stuff Awards Dinner
On Friday, November 6, the Apollo Alliance will host the Right Stuff Awards Dinner and VIP reception at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. The event will honor five awardees whose work exemplifies the Apollo mission of creating the new clean energy economy. U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio will deliver the evening’s keynote speech.
The Right Stuff Awards Dinner raises awareness and financial support for Apollo’s work promoting clean energy and good jobs in the United States.
Please make your commitment to share the evening with us and our sponsors now. You may buy tickets online or download, print, complete and return this response form. To learn more or to confirm your participation at one of the levels below, please contact Jessica Partch, Major Gift Officer, at (415) 371-1700, ext. 206 or email partch (at) apolloalliance.org.
Tickets
$250 – Single Ticket to the Right Stuff Awards Dinner
$1,200 (per couple) – Clean Energy Benefactor (click for more information.)
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Additional Sponsors Include:
Steven M. Silberstein
Ellen Pao and Alphonse Fletcher, Jr.
Regis and Dianne McKenna
Robert Adler
Kimo Cambell
For more information, please contact Jessica Partch at partch (at) apolloalliance.org or (415) 371-1700, ext. 206.
The Apollo Alliance is a project of the Tides Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Awardees
Barbara Byrd
Barbara Byrd is the Secretary-Treasurer of the Oregon AFL-CIO and a member of American Federation of Teachers Local #2277. Her duties include overseeing economic development, workforce training and climate change issues, and chairing the Blue Ribbon Committee on Climate Change. She also coordinates the activities of the Oregon Apollo Alliance, housed at the Oregon AFL-CIO. Barbara sits on the Leadership Council for the AFL-CIO’s Center for Green Jobs and teaches in the AFL-CIO’s Leadership Institute.
Keith W. Cooley
Keith W. Cooley is President and CEO of NextEnergy, one of the nation’s leading accelerators for alternative and renewable energy technologies. He and his team facilitate applied research consortia, connect ventures and emerging technologies to strategic partners, and help companies find pathways to participate in this rapidly expanding industry. At the heart of this are the promise of innovation, the challenge of commercialization and the power of collaboration to meet the future energy needs of our nation and the world.
Fred Krupp
In his 24 years as head of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), Fred Krupp has overseen the growth of EDF from a small nonprofit with budget of $3 million into a recognized worldwide leader in the environmental movement. Krupp is widely recognized as the foremost champion of harnessing market forces for environmental ends, such as the market-based acid rain reduction plan in the 1990 Clean Air Act that The Economist hailed as “the greatest green success story of the past decade.” Today, this approach has become the leading model for solving the problem of global warming.
Terence M. O’Sullivan
Terence M. O’Sullivan has been General President of LIUNA – the Laborers’ International Union of North America – since January 1, 2000. He is known as an innovator among the newest generation of labor leaders dedicated to aggressive approaches designed to increase the power of working people in the 21st Century. O’Sullivan has guided the more than 500,000 collective bargaining members of LIUNA to the forefront of the labor movement, reshaping the Union into one of the fastest-growing, most aggressive and progressive unions in North America. Despite the decline in overall union membership in the U.S., LIUNA has shown steady and consistent growth.
Sally Prouty
In 2002, Sally Prouty was appointed President of The Corps Network where she works with its 143 member Corps who complete conservation, infrastructure improvement, and human service projects that have been identified by communities as important. The Corps Network is an advocate for the nation’s Service and Conservation Corps. Prouty’s work is concentrated on utilizing national and community service as a strategy to revitalize communities, preserve and restore the environment, prepare young people for responsible, productive lives and build civic spirit through service.
