Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work

Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work

This is part of a series of brief posts on 'clean energy jobs' opportunities for sparking meaningful employment, quickly, in the United States as discussed in Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me.

Investing in building energy efficiency is one of the most effective ways to create job and revitalize the economy while achieving other objectives. Ed Mazria and Architecture 2030 have been a fount of good ideas as to how to spark employment and boost economic performance while reducing polluting energy habits and kick-starting the nation toward a prosperous low-pollution future. These have truly been win-win-win concepts.

As the nation looks to serious government action to seek to spark employment, the latest proposal from Mazria / Architecture 2030 should be on the top of the pile for consideration. This "One-Year, 4.5 Million Jobs Investment Program" would:

• Invest $30 billion per year in mortgage interest buydown

• To help fund home improvements in energy efficiency and renewable energy
• Amount of interest rate buydown based on exceeding energy efficiency standards

This multiple win approach, to achieve rapid and significant job growth while moving forward in other arenas, should be on the top of the pile as Congress develops a jobs bill in the coming month.

Clean Energy Jobs Go Home: $30 Billion to put 4.5 Million to Work

NOTE:

On this proposal, see David Roberts, Grist, How Obama could use his jobs speech to win both domestically and internationally.

This $30 billion proposal might be useful to compare to the $23 billion or so being proposed for Cash for Caulkers.

Some other GESN discussions of Architecture 2030 proposals, see:

• Architecture 2030 plan to revitalize the economy
• A W4 Solution: Insulate US from economic and climate devastation
• Massively efficient way to stimulate the US economy
• Win to the Sixth Power

Clean Energy Jobs series posts:

• Clean Energy Jobs Go Swimming
• Clean Energy Jobs Fill Labs
• Clean Energy Jobs Go To The Cleaners
• Clean Energy Jobs Blow In (not Blow Up) Coal River Mountain
• Clean Energy Takes the PHE School Bus
• Clean Energy Jobs Go to the Market
• Clean Energy Jobs Go to School
• Tips for the Job Summit: Can we say Clean Energy Jobs?
• Clean Energy Jobs: Stimulate Me

Adam Siegel blogs in the domains of energy and environmental implications. He is a founding board member of The Energy Consensus (a non-profit focused on enhancing the policy dialogue related to energy issues) and Energize America (focused on developing energy concepts for potential legislative action using the blogosphere as a developmental platform).

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