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3EStrategies works to accelerate the transition to a clean economy. A clean economy supports environmental protection and restoration, energy security, and economic opportunities for people across the income spectrum.
Unlike our current economic system, a clean economy functions like a healthy ecosystem, continually renewing, evolving, and innovating. It grows without destroying the natural or human capital upon which it depends. There is no “waste” as all materials are continuously recycled into nutrients for other industries.
In the clean economy electricity will come from clean, renewable resources. Buildings will be so well-designed they actually generate more electricity than they consume. Vehicles will be profoundly more efficient and will run on clean, renewable electricity, biofuels, fuel cells, and in the short term natural gas.
Such an economy will be green as in environment and green as in cash in our pockets. Millions of people will have family wage jobs providing the products and services for post fossil fuel, low carbon industries. The United States will be a leader in making clean energy, green building, water reclamation, recycling, and green chemistry technologies for the world.
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The West Coast Clean Economy
Opportunities for Investment & Accelerated Job Creation
March 2012
A report commissioned by the Pacific Coast Collaborative, prepared by GLOBE Advisors and the Center for Climate Strategies.
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To learn about a group of Oregonians supporting their Gulf Coast neighbors, visit the PDX 2 Gulf Coast project
