Mayor Sam Adams

Last Thursday, Mayor Adams joined with Phaedra Ellis Lamkins, Green For All CEO and Margie Harris, Executive Director of Energy Trust of Oregon to discuss Clean Energy Works Portland on Green For All's National Call about Recovery Innovation in Portland. Clean Energy Works Portland is an innovative effort led by the City of Portland to deliver affordable home energy upgrades to homeowners in Portland.  The project leverages federal recovery dollars to reduce carbon emissions, lower utility bills, and create jobs.  It is one of the nation's leading models for how to use Recovery Act funds not just to stimulate short-term economic activity, but to lay the foundation for long-term economic, environmental and community health. 

For those who were unable to make the call, Green For All has uploaded the audio of the conference call to their website. To hear the conversation, visit http://www.greenforall.org/what-we-do/building-a-movement/community-of-practice/portland2019s-innovative-home-energy-retrofit-program.

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Last month, Portland City Council approved an unprecedented Community Workforce Agreement, which will lead to the creation of thousands of high-quality jobs in the clean-energy economy for qualified, historically underrepresented contractors and workers.  The City of Portland and Clean Energy Works Portland stakeholders- including public, private, nonprofit, community, and labor institutions- worked side-by-side to create this agreement and establish a set of sustainable contracting standards and community benefits.  Through Clean Energy Works Portland and the Community Workforce Agreement, Portland establishes itself one of the nation's leading models for how to put Americans to work and achieve significant carbon reductions.