President-Elect Barack H. Obama's Green New Deal
President-elect Obama's energy program will be all about
jobs — green jobs. Energy will be the cornerstone of the
new administration's plan for economic recovery. Durability,
sustainability, efficiency, infrastructure, and technology
development will shape energy and environmental policy. All are
aimed at the common themes of economic recovery, job creation,
homeland security, and national security. In short, our new
president envisions nothing short of a national transformation in
energy.
As a candidate, President-elect Obama frequently touted the
economic and job creation potential of renewable energy. Rather
than one big, national Manhattan Project for energy,
President-elect Obama touted a policy of thousands of entrepreneurs
across the nation — 10,000 "Bill Gates-like"
entrepreneurs, with each coming up with the technologies today that
will produce the jobs and the society of tomorrow. His organizing
energy
