THE GREEN NEW DEAL
USA
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Edward Markey, Others
| The Green New Deal is a congressional resolution that proposes a plan to combat climate change. The Green New Deal was proposed by New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Senator Edward J. Markey in 2019, but the idea of a Green New Deal has circulated since 2006, when a Green New Deal proposal was created by the Green New Deal Task Force. The original plan called for 100% clean, renewable energy across the United States by 2030 through a carbon tax, jobs guarantee, free college, single-payer healthcare and a focus on public programs. Since 2006, Green Party candidates have updated the plan, as well as various other NGOs and groups. In 2018 the think tank Data for Progress created a possible program for a Green New Deal. The Sunrise Movement, a climate justice group, organized a protest outside of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in 2018 calling to create a cohesive Green New Deal plan. The 2019 resolution released by Ocasio-Cortez and Markey proposed a ten year nationalization to transition to zero-emission energy sources and implement a social cost of carbon to tax polluters while addressing poverty by aiming improvements at vulnerable communities. The resolution was defeated, but political interest was piqued. Today, the challenges facing a Green New Deal include providing specificity and designs to accomplish the goals of the project, which landscape architects can aid in by giving form to policy proposals. |
2018 - ongoing
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tags: low carbon urbanization, renewable energy, mitigation, resilience, hazard reduction, risk reduction, remain, community, government-driven, communication, training program, carbon emission, environmental justice, structural racism, inequity, North America, Nearctic, Temperate Forest, Grassland, Savanna/Tropical Grassland, Taiga
References:
Data for Progress, Socio-Spatial Climate Collaborative (University of Pennsylvania), and McHarg Center for Urbanism + Ecology (University of Pennsylvania). “A Green New Deal for American American Public Housing Communities.” https://www.dataforprogress.org/green-new-deal-public-housing-national.
Estes, Nick. Our History Is the Future : Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. New York: Verso, 2019.
Fleming, Billy. “Design and the Green New Deal.” Places Journal. April 2019. https://doi.org/10.22269/190416.
Niheu, Kalamaoka’aina. "Indigenous Resistance in an Era of Climate Change Crisis." Radical History Review, no. 133 (2019): 117–29.
Pellow, David N. “Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Studies: Black Lives Matter as an Environmental Justice Challenge." Du Bois Review 13, no. 2 (2016): 221–36.
U. S. Congress. House. Recognizing the Duty of the Federal Government to Create a Green New Deal. HR 109. 116th
Cong. Introduced in House February 7, 2019. https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hres109/BILLS-116hres109ih.pdf.
Links:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/climate/green-new-deal-questions-answers.html
https://mcharg.upenn.edu/events/%E2%80%9Cdesigning-green-new-deal%E2%80%9D