Civilian Green Corps
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An army of workers, thousands, maybe, insulating “American homes and stick(ing) solar photovoltaic panels on their roofs. They could achieve, within a year or two, easily noticeable effects on our energy consumption.”
That’s the thinking of author and scholar Bill McKibben in this opinion piece that ran in the Hartford Courant. McKibben is advocating an organization similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC, as you may recall, was a work-relief program during the Great Depression that focused on conservation projects.
In his piece, McKibben is arguing for a similar venture, where workers can make a difference with projects impacting America’s energy consumption. He points to the Green For All campaign as a starting point.
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Journal News staff writer Greg Clary writes Earth Watch, reporting on environmental issues in the lower Hudson region. Clary has been a reporter, editor and columnist at the Journal News since 1988 and has covered police and courts, transportation, municipal government, development and the environment in the Lower Hudson Valley, among other topics. 
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Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
