Hill Heat: The Labor Network for Sustainability Outlines How to Make the Green New Deal WorkScience Policy Legislation Actiontag:www.hillheat.com,2005:TypoTypo2019-02-26T15:37:53-05:00Brad Johnsonurn:uuid:4380d6d0-d2cc-4dfb-b6cb-729df703a27b2019-02-26T11:43:00-05:002019-02-26T15:37:53-05:00The Labor Network for Sustainability Outlines How to Make the Green New Deal Work<p><a href='https://www.labor4sustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/18Strategies.pdf'><img src='/files/18Strategies.png' style='float:right;margin-left:10px;width:40%' /></a>The Labor Network for Sustainability has released “<a href='https://www.labor4sustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/18Strategies.pdf'>18 Strategies for a Green New Deal: How to Make a Climate Mobilization Work</a>,” a paper intended to “stimulate discussion of the Green New Deal among labor, environmental, progressive, policy, and justice constituencies.” The paper, authored by <span class="caps">LNS</span> Research and Policy Director Jeremy Brecher, details 18 strategies for implementing the <a href='http://www.hillheat.com/articles/2019/02/07/full-text-rep-ocasio-cortez-and-sen-markey-release-green-new-deal-resolution'>Green New Deal resolution</a>’s broad goals, organized in three parts:</p>
Part 1: Mobilize government
<ul>
<li>Establish Green New Deal mobilization agencies</li>
<li>Use regulatory powers to freeze, phase-out, and replace all fossil fuel infrastructure </li>
<li>Use government to plan the transition </li>
<li>Establish Green New Deal agencies for reorganizing economic sectors </li>
<li>Use government to reshape the market </li>
<li>Use the tools of macroeconomic policy </li>
<li>Use the powers of government to rectify past and present injustices </li>
<li>Protect low-income energy consumers</li>
<li>Empower community-led initiatives </li>
<li>Democratize democracy</li>
</ul>
Part 2: Mobilize labor
<ul>
<li>Leave no worker behind </li>
<li>Guarantee jobs for all</li>
<li>Ensure workers rights and good union jobs</li>
</ul>
Part 3: Mobilize money and material resources
<ul>
<li>Capture the benefits of the transition to fossil free energy </li>
<li>Make the polluters pay </li>
<li>Cut wasteful and unnecessary spending </li>
<li>Mobilize investment </li>
<li>Support and fund a Global Green New Deal</li>
</ul>
<p>The mission of the Labor Network for Sustainability is to engage workers and communities in building a transition to a society that is ecologically sustainable and economically just.</p><p><a href='https://www.labor4sustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/18Strategies.pdf'><img src='/files/18Strategies.png' style='float:right;margin-left:10px;width:40%' /></a>The Labor Network for Sustainability has released “<a href='https://www.labor4sustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/18Strategies.pdf'>18 Strategies for a Green New Deal: How to Make a Climate Mobilization Work</a>,” a paper intended to “stimulate discussion of the Green New Deal among labor, environmental, progressive, policy, and justice constituencies.” The paper, authored by <span class="caps">LNS</span> Research and Policy Director Jeremy Brecher, details 18 strategies for implementing the <a href='http://www.hillheat.com/articles/2019/02/07/full-text-rep-ocasio-cortez-and-sen-markey-release-green-new-deal-resolution'>Green New Deal resolution</a>’s broad goals, organized in three parts:</p>
Part 1: Mobilize government
<ul>
<li>Establish Green New Deal mobilization agencies</li>
<li>Use regulatory powers to freeze, phase-out, and replace all fossil fuel infrastructure </li>
<li>Use government to plan the transition </li>
<li>Establish Green New Deal agencies for reorganizing economic sectors </li>
<li>Use government to reshape the market </li>
<li>Use the tools of macroeconomic policy </li>
<li>Use the powers of government to rectify past and present injustices </li>
<li>Protect low-income energy consumers</li>
<li>Empower community-led initiatives </li>
<li>Democratize democracy</li>
</ul>
Part 2: Mobilize labor
<ul>
<li>Leave no worker behind </li>
<li>Guarantee jobs for all</li>
<li>Ensure workers rights and good union jobs</li>
</ul>
Part 3: Mobilize money and material resources
<ul>
<li>Capture the benefits of the transition to fossil free energy </li>
<li>Make the polluters pay </li>
<li>Cut wasteful and unnecessary spending </li>
<li>Mobilize investment </li>
<li>Support and fund a Global Green New Deal</li>
</ul>
<p>The mission of the Labor Network for Sustainability is to engage workers and communities in building a transition to a society that is ecologically sustainable and economically just.</p>