- The Apollo Alliance is a joint project of the Institute for America's Future and the Center on Wisconsin Strategy. The Apollo Alliance is a 501-c3 organization.[2]
- An unusual alliance of labor, environmental, civil rights, business, and political leaders today laid out a vision for a "New Apollo Project" to create 3.3 million new jobs and achieve energy independence in ten years. Named after President Kennedy's moon program, which inspired a major national commitment to the aerospace industry, the Apollo Alliance aims to unify the country behind a ten-year program of strategic investment for clean energy technology and new infrastructure.
- The Alliance also announced that it has received support from 17 of America's largest labor unions, including the United Auto Workers, the Steelworkers and Machinists, as well as a broad cross section of the environmental movement, including the Sierra Club, the NRDC, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Greenpeace.
- The press conference was held as President Bush is expected to make a final push for his energy agenda, which was defeated under widespread criticism last November. The press conference was attended by co-chairs of the Apollo Alliance, Senator Maria Cantwell (by phone), Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America, Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, as well as by California State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Congressman Jay Inslee (by phone), John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress and Bracken Hendricks, executive director of the Apollo Alliance.
- Dr. Ray Perryman, a corporate economist from Texas who prepared a detailed economic analysis of the proposal for a New Apollo Project said, "If economists agree on anything it's that inventing new technologies and creating whole new industries is what America does best. We are a creative economy, not a commodity economy. The New Apollo Project would keep us on the cutting edge of manufacturing emerging technologies and secure our long-term prosperity."
- Perryman concluded that the proposed tax credits and investments would create 3.3 million new, high-wage jobs for manufacturing, construction, transportation, high-tech, and public sector workers, while reducing dependence on imported oil and cleaning the air. Perryman's analysis shows that a New Apollo Project would also position the U.S. to take the lead in fast- growing markets, dramatically reduce the trade deficit and more than pay for itself in energy savings and returns to the U.S. Treasury. Perryman's study was based on an input-output analysis of impacts on key industry sectors, using a highly regarded economic model and extensive survey data.
- Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said, "At the time of Kennedy's moon shot, we were in space race with the Soviet Union. Now we are in an economic race with the Europeans and Japanese. Bush is focused on the past, the New Apollo Project for energy independence is focused on the future. America led the electronic and communications revolutions. Now we must lead the clean energy revolution if we are to maintain our global economic leadership."
- Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Ill.) issued a statement in support of the release saying, "One of the keys to America's energy security -- and therefore our national security -- lies in rebuilding our cities. We need strategic investments to retrofit old buildings, expand transportation alternatives, restore our infrastructure, and create solar, wind and hydrogen technology. Apollo will rebuild our country in a way that benefits all Americans and reestablishes our global economic competitiveness."
- "As California's chief investment officer and a fiduciary of the nation's first and third largest pension funds, I am well aware that the way in which we invest capital can shape not only the contours of our economy, but also the future of our communities, our society, and our environment for decades to come," California State Treasurer Phil Angelides said: "I applaud the efforts of the Apollo Alliance to develop programs that illustrate how strategic public investments can stimulate our economy while at the same time improve the quality of life in communities across our nation."
- Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) said, "The New Apollo Energy Project is an opportunity for a bold new energy policy that can free us from our over-dependence on Middle East oil, expand the economy, and address environmental challenges. We should call for a total national commitment to harness the genius of America's can-do attitude that would design, invent and deploy the new clean energy technologies that benefit this new century. No single national endeavor has such capacity to expand our economy by tapping our innate and unique technological genius for innovation, and creating millions of new jobs."
- President Gerard said: "The New Apollo Project is a call to action for labor unions and environmental groups to forge a new strategy, rooted in common interests, for moving America forward. The Bush energy plan is a waste of money and natural resources. A New Apollo Project will unite America around a positive vision of economic growth and reinvestment that's good for business, workers and the environment."
- According to Pope, the executive director of the Sierra Club, one of the country's oldest and largest environmental groups, "A New Apollo Project will help accelerate the transition away from our dependence on imported oil and other polluting fossil fuels, and toward clean energy like solar and wind. Apollo stands in marked contrast to the Bush Administration's damaging energy agenda, which hurts job creation and the environment. An Apollo Project can simultaneously address the threats of manufacturing job loss, global warming and our diminishing national energy security."
- John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress, said, "In stark contrast to the secret Cheney energy plan hatched by big oil, the Apollo Project harnesses America's ingenuity in support of an energy program that enhances our security, our health, and our livelihoods."
- Bracken Hendricks, executive director of the Apollo Alliance underscored the importance of Apollo in the upcoming political cycle. "We are seeing for the first time a competition among all the major Presidential candidates to produce the best plan for investing in clean energy infrastructure and good jobs. The public is demanding a forward-looking plan to rebuild our economy and a positive solution to our energy insecurity. A bold approach like Apollo is the kind of leadership we need from our next President."
Key personnel
Apollo Alliance National Steering Committee, 2006:[4]- Ruben Aronin, Global Green USA
- Andrew Beebe, Energy Innovations
- Robert L. Borosage, Institute for America’s Future
- Dan Carol, CTSG
- Maggie Fox, Sierra Club
- Bracken Hendricks, Apollo Alliance
- Van Jones, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Mindy Lubber, CERES
- Jeff Rickert, Apollo Alliance
- Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Joel Rogers, Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS)
- Marco Trbovich, United Steelworkers of America (USWA)
- Phil Angelides, California State Treasurer
- President Andrew Beebe, Energy Innovations, An Idea Lab Company
- Angela Glover Blackwell, Policy Link
- Chairman Julian Bond, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- President Thomas Buffenbarger, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- Senator Maria Cantwell, MS Congress (D-WA)
- Henry Cisneros, former Mayor of San Antonio, Texas
- President Leo W. Gerard, The United Steel Workers of America
- Jan Hartke, Executive Director, EarthVoice
- Vice President Gerry Hudson, SEIU Local 1199
- Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA)
- Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., US Congress (D-IL)
- Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Systems and Mitchell Kapor Foundation
- Bill Lucy, Secretary/Treasurer, AFSCME
- William Lynch
- William McDonough, Architect, Author, Educator
- Kathleen McGinty, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Energy
- President Terence M. O’Sullivan, Laborers’ International Union of North America
- Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club
- Art Pulaski, Secretary-Treasurer, California Labor Federation
- Governor Ed Rendell, Pennsylvania
- Anthony Thigpenn, Executive Director AGENDA
- President Danny Thompson, Nevada Labor Federation
- Chairman: Phil Angelides, Chairman, Canyon Johnson Urban Communities Fund
- Frances Beinecke, President, Natural Resources Defense Council
- Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future
- Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union
- Gerry Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union
- Mindy Lubber, President, CERES
- Nancy McFadden, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation
- Kathleen McGinty, former Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
- Terence O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America
- Ellen Pao, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
- Michael Peck, Principal, MAPA Incorporated
- John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress
- Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club
- Dan Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google
- Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
Past Members of the Board of Directors
Funders
2008-2009 Apollo Alliance Donors were:[8]
$100,000 and Over
$50,000 to $99,999
$25,000 to $49,999
$10,000 to $24,999
$5,000 to $9,999
- Susie and Mark Buell
- California Clean Energy Fund
- Conservation Services Group
- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
- Laborers' International Union of North America Local 304
- Dianne McKenna and Regis McKenna
- McKinstry Essention
- Minnesota Foundation
- Office and Professional Employees International Union
- Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 447
- Ellen Pao and Alphonse Fletcher Jr.
- State Building and Construction Trades Council of California
- Tides Center
- Victoria Foundation
$1,000 to $4,999
- Robert Adler
- American Income Life Insurance Company
- Matthew Aracich David and Leah Bangs of the California Nurses Association
- Peter Calthorpe and Jean Driscoll
- The Corps Network
- David Rockefeller Fund
- DivcoWest Group
- Earth Friendly Products Labs
- ecoAmerica
- Fanwood Foundation
- Jane Henson Foundation
- Holland & Hart
- International Union of Operating Engineers Local 39
- Kennedy Associates RE Counsel, LP
- Landon Butler & Company, LP
- John J.B. Miller
- National Association of Service & Conservation Corps
- John J.B. MillerNative Energy
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Newtower Trust Company
- Northern California Carpenters
- Parker and Partners
- Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 442
- Robert Perkowitz and Lisa Renstrom
- Rosengarten-Horowitz Fund
- Walter Schneider and Diane Schneider
- Seattle Foundation
- Southern California Pipe Trades District Council 16
- United Food and Commercial Workers Local 8
Endorsers
Endorsers of Apollo Alliance as at Dec. 28, 2009 were:[9]
AFL-CIO:
- Industrial Union Council
- Building and Construction Trades Dept
- Hawaii branch
- Illinois branch
- Indiana branch
- King County Labor Council
- Metropolitan Detroit branch
- Michigan branch
- Minnesota branch
- Oregon branch
- Pennsylvania branch
- Washington State Labor Council
- Wisconsin branch
- National Heavy and Highway Alliance
- Amalgamated Transit Union
- American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees
- Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union
- Boilermakers Union
- California Labor Federation
- Graphic Communications Industrial Union
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- International Brotherhood of Teamsters
- International Union of Electrical Workers
- Laborers’ International Union of North America
- Paper and Allied Chemical Employees
- Service Employees International Union
- Sheet Metal Workers International Association
- Transportation Workers Union
- United Automobile and Aerospace Workers
- United Food and Commercial Workers
- United Mine Workers of America
- UNITE HERE
- United Steel Workers of America
- American Solar Energy Society
- Beyond Nuclear
- Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Conventions
- Center for Environmental Health
- CERES
- Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Conventions
- The Detroit Project
- EarthVoice
- Environment 2004
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
- Energy Action
- Global Green USA
- Greenpeace USA
- Healthy Schools Network
- League of Conservation Voters
- Midwest Renewable Energy Association
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- National Parks Conservation Association
- National Wildlife Federation
- Rainforest Action Network
- Republicans for Environmental Protection
- The Sierra Club
- The Sierra Student Coalition
- South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- ACORN
- Action for Grassroots Economic and Neighborhood Development
- Alternatives (AGENDA)
- Black Farmers USA
- Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
- California Council of Churches and California Church IMPACT
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Jim Hightower and The Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Intertribal Council On Utility Policy
- Green For All
- Plug in Partners
- South Carolina Coastal Conservation League
- Urban Agenda
- 25 x 25
- American Wind Energy Association
- Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities
- Environmental Business Association of New York
- North Carolina Solar Center
- American Solar Energy Society
- Renewable Energy Long Island
- The American Council On Renewable Energy
- Arete Capital
- Bruce Oreck, Esq.
- Chaucery Financial Advisors
- Ecosa Capital
- Expansion Capital Partners
- Enright Premier Wealth Advisors
- Sigma Capital Group
- First Affirmative Financial Network
- Green Money Journal
- Paladin Private Equity Partners
- Renewal Associates, LLC
- Progressive Asset Management
- Vantage Point Venture Partners
- Sustainable Jobs Fund Ventures
- White & Lee, LLP
- Synergistic Dynamics, Inc
- Austin Energy
- Clean Edge
- Clean Energy Group
- Community Energy
- Conergy, INC
- Solectria Renewables
- OurEnergy
- East Haven Wind Farm
- EcoLogical Solutions
- Energy Innovations/Idea Labs
- Bonneville Environmental Foundation
- Environmental Energy Solutions
- McKenzie Bay International
- NativeWind
- Northern Power Systems
- PV Powered
- Sunlink, LLC
- Cape Wind Associates
- Hawaii PV Coalition
- Pacific Ethanol
- Olympia Green Fuels
- Clean Air Now
- Sharp Solar
- HyGen Industries
- US Renewables Group
- Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics
- Native Energy, LLC
- Daystar Technologies
- PPM Energy
- 3 Phases Energy Services
- Pro Vision Technologies
- Blue Sun Biodiesel
- California Cars Initiative
- Community Fuels
- Cooperative Community Energy Corp
- Renewable Energy Access
- Environ Corporation
- Shepherd Advisors
- Sterling Planet Inc.
- United Bio Lube
- Global Resource Options, Inc
- Wilson Turbo Power, Inc
- Conservation Services Group
- Engage Networks Inc.
- Lightly Treading, Energy & Design
- Kinsley Power Systems
- McKinstry
- Johnson Controls
- Virent Energy Systems
- Burlington Electric Department
- Vermont Energy Investment Corporation
- Washington Electric Cooperative
- Aspen Skiing Company
- The Saunders Hotel Group and Environmental Consulting
- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
- Ben & Jerry’s
- Working Assets
- Seventh Generation
- Pacific Bioscience Labs
- Strider Corporation
- Bay Towel
- High Performance Building Technology Team
- Blue Wave Strategies
- Ervin + Company
- All American Home Center
- William Maclay Architects & Planners
- William McDonough Partners
- Schultz Development Group, LLC
- CTO, NatureWorks (formerly Cargill-Dow)
- Duce Construction Corporation
- Quantec LLC
- NYC Transit
- Center for Smart Energy
- Mazria Architects
- Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center
Staff
Staff of Apollo Alliance as at Dec. 28, 2009 were:[10]- Cathy Calfo - Executive Director
- Kate Gordon - Senior Policy Advisor
- Andrea Bazemore - Indiana State Coordinator
- Paul Blank - Strategic Advisor
- Andrea Buffa - Senior Writer and Policy Associate
- Elena Foshay - Research Associate
- Sam Haswell - Communications Director
- Amelia Klawon - Executive Assistant
- Mac Lynch - Interim California State Coordinator
- Matt Mayrl - Policy Director
- Jessica Partch - Major Gifts Officer
- Mary Raftery - Director of Operations and Finance
- Jerome Ringo - President
- Ron Ruggiero - Field Director
- Dana Sevakis - Michigan State Coordinator
- Shanelle Smith - Ohio State Coordinator
- Joe Thomas - Missouri State Coordinator
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