Green Jobs Philly

jobs that save money by reducing unemployment's costs of social services, vandalism, drug use, violent crime, and jail.

• BUSINESS INCUBATORS are buildings containing equipment shared by small new businesses, to reduce start-up costs.

• BUY LOCAL CAMPAIGNS promote social and economic benefits of shopping for locally-produced goods, at locally-owned stores.

• CO-HOUSING provides shared community spaces for child care, gardens, cooking and recreation, to make life friendlier and easier.

• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONS are citizen groups with power of government, to initiate programs for business, housing, transit, etc.

• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CREDIT UNIONS are memberowned banks that invest most money back to the neighborhoods from where deposits came.

• COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS make grants to local groups.

• COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AGENCIES are local groups which make sure local banks invest locally, without racial bias.

• COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE brings city folk to work on farms in exchange for fresh, low-cost food.

• ECO-INDICATORS are relied on to measure whether the local economy is improving for all, or merely enriching an elite.

• ECO-INDUSTRIAL PARKS exemplify manufacturing of basic useful goods with recycled materials and zero pollution.

• FARMERSʼ MARKETS enable farmers and craftspeople to sell directly to local people.

• FARMLAND RETENTION groups advocate public policy that promotes and protects local farming.

• FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING NETWORKS combine the skills and tools of several local manufacturers to enable them jointly to get a manufacturing contract.

• FOOD AND FUEL COOPERATIVES coordinate bulk buying of food, fuels, solar equipment and windmills by neighbors, to reduce unit costs and gain policy leverage.

• HOUSING COOPERATIVES remove housing from the speculative market, enabling occupants to resell with specified limits to profit.

• IMPORT REPLACEMENT PROGRAMS connect regional businesses and individuals to supply each other, rather than depending on imports.

• INDUSTRIAL RETENTION INITIATIVES are carrot-and-stick programs seeking to keep industry from closing or moving away.