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From Green to Green(er): Retooling for an Energy Secure America

Colliding Crises: Veterans, Energy Security & Environment. Dependence on foreign energy, inefficient building design, decaying urban infrastructure, climate change. This crisis is a calling. Reconnect, retool, restore.

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From Green to Green(er): Retooling for an Energy Secure America

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  1. From Green to Green(er):Retooling for an Energy Secure America veteransgreenjobs.org

  2. Colliding Crises Veterans Energy Security / Environment Dependence on foreign energy Inefficient building design Buildings consume 40-45% of energy produced Decaying urban infrastructure Climate change / eco-system destruction… Fracturing communities • Vietnam era: more suicides than KIA • 200,000 still homeless • PTSD is real • 25% of Iraq war veterans diagnosed as having a “mental illness” • Where’s the work? • Where’s the meaning?

  3. A Crisis is also a Calling: THE NEW 3 “R’s” Reconnect to a sense of purpose Retool for a new mission Restore through work that heals

  4. Portals and Pathways • Three Mission Portals: • Empowerment through service learning • Education: environmental and energy • Employment through enterprise • Programmatic Pathways: • Energy Efficiency / Green Retrofitting • Renewable Energy • Land Conservation/Restoration-Urban and Rural

  5. www.veteransgreenjobs.org Stacy Bare stacy@veteransgreenjobs.org

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