Los Angeles Apollo Alliance Mission and Policy Platform

Mission

To build a broad-based constituency in support of a sustainable, equitable, and clean energy economy that will create quality jobs for low-income people of color, create healthier and safer communities, and promote community-based land use planning and economic development. Through policy alternatives, organizing, and on the ground results, we are demonstrating that a socially-just, environmentally-sustainable, and economically-prosperous future is attainable.

Policy Platform

1. Smart funding and investments for a cleaner tomorrow
2. Clean and renewable energy development
3. Green building and infrastructure, including parks, community gardens, and open space
4. Just and sustainable economic development
5. Transparent and inclusive public policy decision-making

Los Angeles' Green Building Retrofit Initiative

Los Angeles Apollo is calling on the City of Los Angeles to accept the Apollo Challenge and be a leader in creating jobs and cleaning our environment.

We believe that the first step is to:

• Create a pipeline of 2,000 trained public and private sector workers in green building construction, maintenance, landscaping and manufacturing through a Green Career Ladder Training Program;
• Green existing city-owned properties to create jobs and revitalize public space, like parks and recreation facilities, in underserved communities;
• Involve stakeholders - community, labor, and environmentalists - in the development of a new green industry in Los Angeles.

For more information, please contact SCOPE at 323-789-7920.