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.

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Data Points: Investments In Clean Energy Soar

Governments, banks, and private investors around the world are furiously pumping capital into renewable energy, research and development, and clean energy manufacturing.

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Newark’s Green Future Summit

In the two years since Mayor Cory A. Booker took office, various measures of the city’s well-being have begun to tick upwards. Now Booker has teamed up with the Apollo Alliance to improve green-collar job opportunities for all city residents. Read more

Boone Pickens’ Wind Statement

“Our dependence on imported oil is killing our economy. It is the single biggest problem facing America today,” says T. Bonne Pickens. Read more

Newark’s Green Future

Newark Mayor Cory Booker teamed up with the Apollo Alliance to write a roadmap for a healthy sustainable city with economic opportunities for all citizens. Credit:Seth Sherman courtesy of The Trust for Public Land Read more

NYC Apollo helps write PlaNYC2030

New York City will add one million more people over the next two decades. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg responded with an ambitious program to make the city cleaner, greener, more prosperous, and a mecca for jobs. Read more

The New Green City

A new American narrative is coming to the fore, and recognizable in the patterns of neighborhood development in Portland, Oregon that puts homes, businesses, and the other stations of American life in considerably closer proximity. Read more

From Brownfields to Green Neighborhoods

Taking Newark in new direction

By Jay Inslee and Bracken Hendricks
Special to the Apollo News Service

Fifth and last in a series

In the heart of Newark a community organizer named Baye Adofo-Wilson is taking a green tack to rebuild his economically distressed neighborhood. As executive director of the Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District, he is bringing new life to the Lincoln Park neighborhood, known locally as the “Bottom.” Read more

Apollo Alliance, EI2025 Team Up for Energy Independence, Clean Economy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January 30, 2008

CONTACT:
Eric Antebi
(415) 901-0111 x328
antebi@apolloalliance.org

Americans for Energy Independence (ei2025) announced today that it would be merging with the Apollo Alliance to further their shared goals of reducing the nation’s dependence on foreign oil, cutting global warming pollution and seeding the clean energy economy. The merger underscores how a new constituency is coming together to usher in a new energy economy. Read more