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Renewable Energy: Consistent Funding Needed to Build Smart Today, Compete Tomorrow PDF

Congressional budget battles will have major impacts on whether and how environmentally-friendly solar, wind, geothermal, and transmission facilities are built on public and private lands over the coming months and years.  Budget allocations in both the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Department of Energy (DOE) will shape how fast, how well, and ultimately how much needed new renewable energy is built in America. Consistent funding for critical programs even in these lean budget times is needed to build smart today and to compete in the global market of tomorrow.

Climate-Smart Conservation Jobs Flowchart PDF

Addressing climate change means reducing emissions and protecting people and resources from impacts already under way. Significant resources are required to keep our economy, health and wildlands resilient in a warming world. Investing in climate-smart conservation projects will create jobs across the country that protect the natural resources upon which we rely. These types of projects include: stream bed repair, removing invasive species, coastline restoration and installing culverts.

Public Health and Climate Change PDF

Natural Resources Adaptation Coalition Brief PDF

Green Jobs: Natural Resources Adaptation Projects PDF

The challenges posed by unemployment and climate change create a powerful opportunity to revitalize our economy while restoring the backbone of our wellbeing: our natural heritage. Safeguarding our natural resources—our forests, rivers, prairies and other wildlands—in a warming world will protect and create jobs across the country today, while investing in our country’s future.  What do projects that protect our natural resources and communities look like?

Protecting Alaska’s Economy, Communities, and Environment from Global Warming PDF

Global warming is already affecting Alaska and will continue to do so for decades to come. In the absence of national policy that jumpstarts the clean energy economy by ramping down dangerous carbon emissions, our economy and wildlands are at an even greater risk. As a result, additional resources are even more necessary for protecting our natural heritage, jobs, and communities from climate disruption. Given the scale of the threat, there is no time to waste.  

A business owner goes to DC to fight for American jobs on American lands VIDEO

Andy Brown, head of Equinox Environmental, discusses his company and the impact that adaptation and restoration jobs have in the local community.

Now more than ever, Massachusetts needs jobs PDF

March 2010 marked Massachusetts' highest unemployment rate in 34 years. In a state where jobs are needed now, protecting our natural resources from climate impacts can put people to work across multiple economic sectors. Increasing average temperatures and precipitation levels in Massachusetts are leading to more storms and flooding, rising sea levels, degraded wildlands, and threats to our health.

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