A GREEN ECONOMY FOR THE SEVENTH GENERATION

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Now is the time. Tribally owned and operated renewable energy along with green jobs that help reduce dependence on fossil fuels are central to a sustainable and affordable low-carbon energy future. Energy decisions made in the coming months by Congress and the Obama administration will have signicant implications for many generations to come. INDIVIDUALS Contact your Senators and Member of Congress and urge them to: Support renewable energy and efciency in Native communities. We want Green Jobs for Native Peoples Now! CALL: (202) 224-3121. Its best to make three quick calls, one for each of your two Senators and one for your Member of Congress. Please call now! ORGANIZATIONS AND TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS The coalition of Honor the Earth, Intertribal Council On Utility Policy, Indigenous Environmental Network, and the International Indian Treaty Council collaborated to create the Energy Justice in Native America Policy Paper for the Obama Administration and the Congress. The paper has a detailed strategy for working toward energy justice and green economies in Native communities. The paper has a detailed strategy for working towards energy justice and green economies in Native communities; the full version is available at honorearth.org. Please stand with us and sign onto the paper for upcoming submission to key decision-makers! Email greeneconomy@honorearth.org today to add your organization or tribal government to our growing list of allies.
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NOW IS THE TIME TO ACT!

ECONOMIC STIMULUS BILLS. ENERGY LEGISLATION. CLIMATE CHANGE INITIATIVES. All of these will move through the Congress quickly. Native peoples demand a place at the table. Historic and present impacts of climate change and energy development on American Indian reservations and Alaska Native villages are devastating. Today, we have the potential to catalyze a green economy, with justice for our Native communities.

HONOR THE EARTH

INTERTRIBAL COUNCIL O N UTILITY POLICY

INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK

INTERNATIONAL INDIAN TREATY COUNCIL

ENERGY JUSTICE IN NATIVE AMERICA AND THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION

Policy Statement- Presidential Transition 2009

GREEN ECONOMIES IN NATIVE COMMUNITIES: MASSIVE POTENTIAL, MAXIMUM IMPACT

A green jobs economy and a new, forward thinking energy and climate policy will transform tribal and other rural economies, and provide the basis for economic recovery in the United States. For every dollar invested, renewable energy development creates more jobs than fossil fuels like coal, oil, or gas. Renewable energy is energy security: Unlike the volatile prices of fossil fuels, the cost of wind and solar resources can be projected into the future, providing a unique opportunity for stabilizing an energy intensive economy. ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE AND BOOSTING ECONOMIES: RENEWABLE ENERGY AND EFFICIENCY IN NATIVE AMERICA To address the climate change crisis, the US will need to install thousands of megawatts of new clean energy generation over the next decade, and we will need to get efcient. One scenario is developing 125,000 megawatts of wind power in the next 10 years (an estimate of the amount needed to stabilize the countrys carbon emissions). This scenario would create about 400,000 new manufacturing jobs! Efciency also creates needed jobs. Conservation in housing and other buildings could reduce our power use by up to onethird and reduce the level of fuel poverty in our communities.

TO BEGIN WORKING TOWARD ENERGY JUSTICE WE URGE THIS ADMINISTRATION TO:

Increase the capacity of tribal education institutions to train the next generation of green job workers and continue to boost the capacity of technical training programs. Create nancial support for efciency in federal fuel assistance programs, and for the installation of low cost energy savers like solar heating panels. Ensure tax credits and nancing for renewable projects are applicable to tribally-owned renewable energy development. Ensure priority access to the electrical grid for green energy. Ensure international debt reduction programs, to reduce the pressure on governments and Indigenous communities to cut down their forests or sell their fossil fuels. Support preservation of biodiversity and Indigenous rights in these areas. Create a moratorium on off shore oil leasing in Alaska. Not fund or provide incentives for clean coal or nuclear power. Neither are solutions to climate change and neither represent sustainable economic development for Native communities.

Tribal communities have tremendous untapped wind and solar energy resources and are central to the green economy of the future. Our tribal lands have: 535 Billion kWh/year of wind power generation potential, about 14% of US annual generation and; 17,000 Billion kWh/year of solar electricity generation potential, about 4.5 times total US annual generation.

One example of green economic development is to fully authorize a tribal solar project to cover the 355 miles of an open federal Central Arizona Project canal with solar photovoltaic cap to generate over 1500 megawatts of clean, efcient solar power displacing dirty coal.

WITH THESE ACTIONS, WE CAN DEVELOP A GREEN ECONOMY BASED ON JUST RELATIONS WITH NATIVE AMERICA.