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Building a Clean Energy Assembly Line

bga_reportThis report, put together with research by the Renewable Energy Policy Project in collaboration with the Blue Green Alliance, a Surdna grantee, examines how U.S. manufacturers can realize significant economic benefits from clean energy development.  The report includes a set of policy recommendations that can help revitalize the American manufacturing sector by making the transition to clean energy production, and which would create hundreds of thousands of jobs for American workers.  Especially in the Midwest, where manufacturing once provided the backbone for prosperous communities, a renewed focus on manufacturing may serve as a building block for the post-carbon communities of the twenty-first century.  To read the report, click here.

 

Rightside Spotlight

Grantee Spotlight: Design Corps and Tulane City Center

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Design Corps supports the vital role that design can play in addressing critical issues and needs of communities. Through the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) initiative, Design Corps provides communities, institutions and design professionals with the tools and services they need to integrate community-engaged processes into design activities, leading to projects that reflect a community's values and cultural identities. Public inclusion as a "best practice" in design is increasingly recognized as a highly effective way to sustain the health and longevity of a place or a community.

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