'Community Jobs in the Green Economy' (Apollo Alliance/Urban Habitat)

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http://home.apolloalliance.org/community-jobs-report/Community-Jobs-in-the-Green-Economy.pdf

Apollo Alliance

The Apollo Alliance aims to improve America’s security, technological leadership, economic strength, and shared prosperity by achieving sustainable American energy independence through efforts at the national, state and local level. Named after President Kennedy’s challenge in the 1960s to land a man on the moon within a decade, the Apollo Alliance has a bold strategy to direct $300 billion in targeted investments towards achieving sustainable energy independence within a decade.

Apollo’s 10-point plan to achieve energy independence includes promoting advanced technology and hybrid cars, encouraging high performance building, increasing the use of energy efficient appliances, expanding renewable energy development, and improving transportation options. Our plan is supported by key national leaders in the labor, environmental, and business sectors, as well as by communities of color who are traditionally most harmed by existing energy policies.

Apollo Alliance
www.apolloalliance.org

Urban Habitat

The mission of Urban Habitat is to build power in low-income communities and communities of color by combining education, advocacy, research, and coalition building to advance environmental, economic, and social justice in California’s Bay Area.
Urban Habitat envisions a society where all people live in economically and environmentally healthy neighborhoods. Clean air, land, and water are recognized as fundamental human rights.

Meaningful employment honors a worker’s right to dignity and a living wage with benefits. Effective public transportation and land-use planning connect people to the resources, opportunities and services to thrive. Affordable housing provides a healthy and safe home for all. And quality education prepares visionary leaders to strengthen our democracy with new ideas, energy, and commitment.

Urban Habitat convenes the Social Equity Caucus (SEC), the Bay Area’s only body dedicated to promoting a regional vision for social justice. SEC members represent economic, social, and environmental justice community-based groups, as well as labor, public health, advocacy, faith, and youth organizations.

Urban Habitat
www.urbanhabitat.org

Acknowledgements

This report was written by Kate Gordon, Jeremy Hays, Leon Sompolinsky, Elizabeth Tan, and Jackie Tsou. Design by Karyn Matchey. The generous support of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and the Energy Foundation made this report possible. Many thanks to friends of the Apollo Alliance and Urban Habitat around the country, who offered advice, reviewed drafts, contributed photos and inspired this project with their important work.

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