Green New Deal - The Corps Network - 7 pager

http://www.greenforall.org/resources/greennewdeal.pdf


The “Green New Deal” and Service and Conservation Corps
Sally T. Prouty, President and CEO, The Corps Network

• The Corps Network, as a member of the Green Jobs and Service Collaborative, calls for a “Green New Deal” [Could not find any other web info on the green jobs and service collaborative]
• Explicit goal - to change lives of disconnected young people

The Green Jobs and Service Collaborative’s Green New Deal

• We propose $10 billion in new funds over the coming decade for enhanced national environmental service combating climate change, including Americans of all ages but with prime focus on a Clean Energy Corps, where low-income disconnected young men and women in Service and Conservation Corps would improve energy efficiency in their communities while preparing for jobs in the green economy.
• We also propose $50 billion for state and local green jobs development during that time, to provide low-income and working-class Americans with the training and other assistance they need to gain jobs in the clean energy economy. At least half this new investment should go toward job preparation, matching, and retention efforts for the unemployed or poor. This investment will pay for itself in direct energy savings, increased worker productivity, reduced social service and health costs, and reduced green house gas emissions.
• $140 billion for a revolving loan fund will help to capitalize this work. Supplemented with other public dollars from states and cities, and used throughout to leverage private capital investment, the fund would be paid for through realized energy savings.
• Green Jobs and Service Collaborative (institutional affiliations for identification purposes only)—Jeremy Hays (Apollo Alliance), Bracken Hendricks (Center for American Progress), Van Jones (Ella Baker Center for Human Rights/Green for All), Ian Kim (Ella Baker Center), Billy Parish (Energy Action Coalition), Sally Prouty (The Corps Network), Joel Rogers (UW-Madison/ COWS/Center for State Innovation), Gene Sofer (Susquehanna Group), Lisbeth Shepherd (Innovations in Civic Participation), Susan Stroud (Innovations in Civic Participation).

[Revolving loan fund definition: A loan is made to a business and as repayments are made, funds become available for new loans to other businesses.]

• Cites the ASES RE&EE job figures
• In low-income communities, weatherization has been an economic stimulus, supporting 8,000 technical jobs in low income communities nationwide, which represents 52 jobs for every $1 million invested by the Department of Energy. Increasing the number of homes weatherized an other conservation investments will create new jobs. According to a cost-benefit analysis conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, every dollar invested in weatherization produces $3.71, of which $1.83 is energy-related benefits and $1.88 is non-energy-related.5 [5 US Department of Energy, “Non-Energy Benefits of Weatherization, January 2003,” p. 1, summarizing results of Martin Schweitzer and Bruce Tonn, Non-Energy Benefits from the Weatherization Assistance Program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, April, 2002.]
• Within AmeriCorps, and as a sizable new initiative, the Clean Energy Corps will take
  environmental service to scale, using the experienced infrastructure of America’s Service
  and Conservation Corps. We propose funding at $300 million a year for a decade.
  Annually this would increase the number of Corpsmembers to 40,000, double the number
  of Corps, result in 2 million hours of service, and generate over half a million unpaid
  volunteers in green service.
• Examples: Weatherization corps projects in MT, OH CA; Light and water household retrofits in Denver; Rebuild or retrofit houses in WI