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Ithaca NY: $150M and counting
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Sep 28, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Ithaca, NY, adopted a Green New Deal in June 2019. Their goal is achieving carbon neutrality community-wide by 2030, while ensuring benefits are shared so as to reduce historical inequities. We interview Luis Aguirre-Torres, Ithaca's dynamic new Sustainability Director, about his big plans for achieving Ithaca's goals, and how he's already raised $150M by creating ground-breaking relationships between private capital, business, government, and philanthropies.ResourcesIthaca Green New Deal websiteIthaca's Energy Efficiency Retrofitting and Thermal Load Electrification Program - RFPFederal Green New Deal - House of Representatives resolutionFederal Green New Deal - background from NY TimesSunrise Movement national and Sunrise Ithaca Recast photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Released:
Sep 28, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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