Apollo Alliance

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</div><div>9/05</div><div>amanda little</div><div>
</div><div> now the mission of the two-year-old D.C.-based Apollo Alliance — to mobilize a grand-scale federal commitment to energy independence, with the triple-whammy promise of creating good jobs with new technology, bolstering national security with energy independence, and saving the planet from carbon emissions — has become something of a cliché.Named after President Kennedy‘s visionary moon shot, which launched America’s space-exploration program, the Apollo Alliance is a coalition of labor, business, and environmental advocates that aims to unify the country behind a 10-year, $300 billion program of investment in clean-energy technology. The alliance claims its proposal would create more than 3 million new jobs, eliminate American dependence on Middle East oil imports, lead to 15 percent of U.S. electricity coming from renewable sources, and reduce national energy consumption by 16 percent.That’s both a creditable triumph and, some argue, a concerning liability. On the one hand, thanks to Apollo and other like-minded organizations, the virtues of energy independence are now almost universally applauded in the theater of American politics, as likely to be extolled in The Wall Street Journal and The National Review as on this website. On the other, the Apollo agenda may be suffering from its sheer agreeableness: It’s attracted coalition partners from a broad spectrum, but consensus among those partners centers on general concepts rather than specific, hard-hitting policy proposals.Apollo’s vision has been endorsed by every major union in the AFL-CIO (even before this summer’s defections) and many environmental groups, as well as nine Democratic governors, including <a href="https://grist.org/article/schneider-granholm/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Jennifer Granholm</a> of Michigan and Bill Richardson of New Mexico. Nation editor Katrina vanden Heuvel <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?bid=7&pid=7713" target="new" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">recently heralded</a>it as “one of the best progressive ideas of the millennium.”“Apollo has been an absolutely integral force, if not the key force, in helping shift the framework of the energy debate from environmental space into economic … and national-security space,” said Peter Teague, director of the environment program at the Nathan Cummings Foundation, a lead funder of the Apollo project. It was Teague who brought framing theorist <a href="https://grist.org/article/little-lakoff/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">George Lakoff</a> in during the development stages of the Apollo Alliance to help achieve this very goal.“At almost every meeting of progressives I go to, people point to Apollo as the prime example of how we should be doing our politics differently. It fundamentally reorients our message away from doom and gloom and toward inspiration and solving multiple problems simultaneously,” he said.Apollo was publicly unveiled in June 2003, having evolved alongside a handful of other organizations proclaiming similar goals, some spearheaded by hawkish conservatives concerned about national security. Frank Gaffney Jr., a former policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. and founder of the Center for Security Policy; C. Boyden Gray, former White House counsel; and Robert McFarlane, former national-security adviser to Reagan, are active in the Energy Future Coalition and an organization called Set America Free. These groups champion efficiency and renewable-energy agendas in the name of national and economic security, and have intermittently collaborated with Apollo. “All these organizations evolved in parallel on the heels of Sept. 11,” said Apollo Alliance founding director Bracken Hendricks, who has been an adviser to the Energy Future Coalition and is a member of Set America Free.According to Reid Detchon, executive director of the Energy Future Coalition, “Apollo was the first out of the box in articulating the idea that this is a job-creation and economic-development engine as well as good for energy and the environment. Those of us coming from the security angle have definitely embraced that message.”Bill Clinton is another believer in the vision. “We’ve got to make [energy] a national-security argument, and we’ve got to make it a jobs argument, and we’ve got to make the price of oil irrelevant,” he said in July at an Aspen Institute gathering that included heavies ranging from Hardball‘s Chris Matthews to Amazon‘s Jeff Bezos to Jordan’s Queen Noor. He argued that the U.S. could create millions of jobs if clean-energy projects got just a fraction of the tax incentives that go to dirty energy.Even Karl Rove seems to be adopting the rhetoric, if not the substance. In May, President Bush <a href="https://grist.org/article/mr-hanky/" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">made an appearance</a> at a biodiesel manufacturing facility in Virginia to talk up alternative-fuel subsidies in the energy bill. And in June, during a speech at the 16th annual Energy-Efficiency Forum in D.C., Bush proclaimed, “Here in America, we have become too dependent — too dependent — on the increasingly limited supply of foreign oil for our own energy needs.”But in practice, of course, Bush has mainly pushed for more drilling and more tax breaks for extractive industries — even as fossil-fuel developers are enjoying record-high oil and gas prices. Indeed, the same goes for many others who pay lip service to energy independence. The presumed bipartisan consensus on the issue falls apart as soon as specific policies get debated.Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), who sits on Apollo’s advisory board, proposed an amendment to the energy bill in June that called for a 40 percent reduction in U.S. oil imports over 20 years. The measure was summarily defeated. Similarly, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) failed to even get a vote on his plan to replace the energy bill with a <a href="https://grist.org/article/inslee-apollo/" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">New Apollo Energy Act</a>. That act, which has since been introduced as stand-alone legislation, includes ambitious measures ranging from a mandatory carbon cap to $49 billion in loan guarantees for the construction of clean-energy facilities. (The Apollo Alliance was not involved in developing the Cantwell initiative, despite her allegiance to the group, and though the alliance worked with Inslee as he crafted his bill, it did not endorse the final product because it included fuel-economy proposals that were objectionable to one of Apollo’s member unions.)Of course, the <a href="https://grist.org/article/dirty-financing/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">energy bill</a> that eventually reached Bush’s desk, and that he gleefully signed in early August, was quite limited in its assistance for clean energy technologies — of the $14.5 billion in subsidies it earmarks for the energy industry over the next decade, only 20 percent will go to renewables and energy efficiency. Far more prominent in the bill, and in the Bush energy strategy as a whole, are big subsidies for the nuclear-power industry and a big push to drill for oil and gas on public lands and in offshore waters. Critics of all political stripes argue that the bill’s grand giveaways to oil and coal producers will, if anything, increase America’s dependence on fossil fuels, not lessen it.In essence, what we’ve now got at the federal level is lots of talk about promoting a clean-energy economy, and lots of action that’s leading to anything but.<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2rem 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rebellion in the Ranks</h3>Apollo’s leaders have had their own differences over how to parlay their widely talked-up vision into concrete policy making. Hendricks resigned from the executive director position this spring, though he remains on the steering committee. He stresses his continued commitment to the organization, but raises questions about its efficacy. “Apollo has not only recontextualized the climate-change and energy-independence debate [but] created an opening to pursue solutions,” he said. “The question is: How do you capitalize on that opening? It may be through Apollo, or a different set of strategies.”It seems Hendricks is betting on the latter since he now divides his time between his new fellowship at the Center for American Progress, founded by Democratic strategist John Podesta, and his role as a strategic consultant at the Breakthrough Institute, a progressive think tank founded by <a href="https://grist.org/article/little-doe" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus</a> — aka, The Reapers — authors of the controversial <a href="https://grist.org/article/doe-reprint/" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">“Death of Environmentalism”</a> paper that assailed the green movement’s political irrelevance.Leaders of the Apollo program, who spent great effort trying to build practical coalitions among environmental and labor groups, were embarrassed when The Reapers singled out Apollo for lavish praise while savaging the rest of the environmental movement. “Our phone started ringing from friends wondering why we were working with people who attacked our coalition partners,” said a leader of the initial Apollo plan. “We didn’t know the paper was coming. We were completely blindsided.”Within six months of the paper’s release, Shellenberger and “Death of” ally <a href="https://grist.org/article/werbach-reprint/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Adam Werbach</a>, both of whom were among Apollo’s founding members, distanced themselves from the alliance. “Given our differing visions for how to advance Apollo, and lingering upset over ‘Death of,’ we all agreed it would be better for Adam and me to leave the Apollo Alliance and seek other ways to advance the vision, values, and ideas at both the national and state levels,” Shellenberger said.“I felt like we needed to articulate concrete political proposals and get them out there in the world,” he continued. He argues that the alliance’s current focus on moving small state and local initiatives yields only “incremental” policy change, and it has not designed or endorsed new federal-level legislative initiatives. “We’re more interested in finding ways to introduce big, bold, and inspiring legislative proposals that may not pass anytime soon, but serve to frame the debate and create political momentum,” he said.Apollo leaders might argue that their call for a massive public investment to advance clean-energy innovation is just such a bold vision — one that has little chance of becoming a legislative reality anytime soon, but nevertheless challenges the energy status quo and acts as an organizing and educational tool. But Apollo has outlined only vague legislative strategies to substantiate its $300 billion plan. In 2003, it issued a 40-page white paper that explored broad categories of investment for these funds, but since then has not grounded this vision in legislative detail, nor developed other, more detailed federal-level objectives.Jeff Rickert, the acting executive director of Apollo, acknowledges that because his top priority is holding together a coalition of diverse organizations, there are limits to how specific and controversial Apollo can get in terms of its legislative proposals. “We have to steer clear of anything that looks like CAFE [corporate average fuel economy standards],” Rickert admits, in order to keep allies in the labor movement on board. Gasoline taxes and caps on carbon dioxide pollution are also anathema to some of Apollo’s labor partners.Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers of America, who is on the Apollo advisory board and was instrumental in rallying support for the alliance among labor unions, declined to address the regulatory picture altogether. “I’m not going to get into a discussion about regulations,” he said. “That torpedoes the debate. My interest is in advancing the principles, advancing the fight, not dissolving into arguments about divisive regulatory strategies.”Gerard stressed that Apollo must be careful not to alienate business interests: “We’re the dominant union in the petrochemical industry, and we’re not at all saying, ‘Put them out of business.’ We’re saying we want to keep a strong economy within America’s control. We’re saying, ‘If China runs around and buys up most of the world’s resources, what will we do? If the world starts demanding hybrids and Japan dominates that market, what will we do?'”Gerard’s comments highlight the fact that the debate within the labor community over clean-energy policies is still in its infancy, and that blue-green alliances are still fragile.<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2rem 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.2; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">States of Grace</h3>If success at the federal level seems out of reach, though, the Apollo Alliance is making strides in the states, in many cases simply by bringing environmentalists and labor together.In Pennsylvania, Apollo pushed a renewable portfolio standard — backed by a coalition including both steelworkers and enviros — that requires 18 percent of the state’s electricity to be generated from clean sources by 2020. Spanish wind company Gamesa cited the state’s adoption of the standard as one reason for its plans to build development offices and a manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania, a venture that could create up to 1,000 new jobs over five years.In California, Apollo worked to get two huge state pension funds, CalPERS and CalSTRS, to adopt a Green Wave investment plan under which they will invest some $450 million in eco-friendly technologies. And in New York City, the organization worked with the city council on a recently passed green-building measure requiring that new and expanded municipal buildings be certified with the equivalent of a LEED silver rating or better.Rickert says that Apollo plans over the next three years to maintain only a low-level involvement in federal initiatives, while growing its local and regional efforts, with an emphasis on 10 states including California, Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, Washington, and Wisconsin. “We believe the best way to pave the way for sound energy initiatives is demonstrating their success at a state level,” he said.Hendricks applauds these successes, but believes the federal battle can also be fought more directly. The Breakthrough Institute, for example, has been collaborating with the office of Sen. <a href="https://grist.org/article/griscom-obama/" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Barack Obama</a> (D-Ill.) on a bill it hopes he will propose later this year known as the Automotive Competitiveness and Accountability Act. It would relieve the pressure on U.S. automakers to bankroll the rising costs of legacy health insurance — an expense that doesn’t burden their foreign competitors — and, in exchange, obligate them to invest heavily in energy-efficiency technologies and comply with substantially more aggressive fuel-economy standards.It represents a new way of thinking about environmental policies, says Hendricks — “offering a bailout to the [auto industry] from these hugely debilitating health costs they’re grappling with, but linking it to an accountability for achieving public purposes.”Shellenberger insists that these types of edgy proposals are precisely what progressives need right now — “devices that will prompt battles that may be lost legislatively, but won at a cultural and political level” because they would force conservatives to take a position at odds with the pursuit of energy independence. The greater goal, in other words, is not to create frictionless coalitions, but constructive controversy. “We want to catapult the fuel-economy issue into contested political space,” as Nordhaus puts it, which would compel opponents of fuel efficiency to justify their positions.The hope is that Obama and other progressive leaders could characterize anyone who votes against the Automotive Competitiveness and Accountability Act as an opponent of national security, job creation, and public health — just the way conservatives used the issue of gay marriage in the 2004 election to characterize liberals as opponents of traditional family values.But the useful strategy of smoking out opponents doesn’t negate the importance of building and protecting the common ground between once-competitive interests, says Hendricks. “The challenge of jumping into the fight and pushing wedge issues is going to move the debate further and faster,” he said. “But holding together the blue-green coalition has real value. Keeping allies together and focused on what they can agree on is critical. We have to define and protect a safe, positive space for accord between people that have only recently begun to see their common cause.”Apollo has certainly demonstrated its ability to attract and maintain broad backing for a compelling vision. Perhaps there’s no need for the alliance to do anything more than what it does best: forging consensus and pushing incremental policy measures at the state and local levels. This work can only help the activists and innovators who want to make waves — and eventually sea change — at a federal level.A version of this article was published in The American Prospect, part of a <a href="http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=Environment" target="new" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">special report</a> on the “death and rebirth” of environmentalism.</div><div>=</div><div>shillenberger is still pimping this in 2017? later? his origin myth is that he fought the good fight but became disillusined/realist</div><div>
</div><div>on tucker  he claims he was part of obama initiative (i think he alludes to green part of stimulus) that he sez failed</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SW</div><div style="">The Apollo Alliance is a project organized by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_America%27s_Future" title="Institute for America's Future" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Institute for America's Future</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_on_Wisconsin_Strategy" title="Center on Wisconsin Strategy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Center on Wisconsin Strategy</a>. The Alliance is a project of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tides_Center" title="Tides Center" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Tides Center</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>Its goals include establishing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_energy_independence" title="North American energy independence" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">energy independence</a> for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_of_America" title="United States of America" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">United States of America</a>, as well as developing cleaner and more <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_energy_use" title="Efficient energy use" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">efficient energy</a> alternatives. Its allies are drawn from businesses, environmental organizations, and over 30 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_union" title="Labor union" class="mw-redirect" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">labor unions</a>.The Alliance's current Chair is former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Treasurer" title="California State Treasurer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">California State Treasurer</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Angelides" title="Phil Angelides" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Phil Angelides</a>, who is currently the Chair of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Crisis_Inquiry_Commission" title="Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid" title="Harry Reid" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Harry Reid</a>, Senate Majority Leader (2007-present) from Nevada, credited the Apollo Alliance with helping to create the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009" title="American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009</a> (also known as the stimulus bill): “This legislation is the first step in building a clean energy economy that creates jobs and moves us closer to solving our enormous energy and environmental challenges,” he said. “We’ve talked about moving forward on these ideas for decades. The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them.”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Organization[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo_Alliance&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Organization" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6;">Founders<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo_Alliance&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Founders" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>The founding board members of the Apollo Alliance are:<ul data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii=");" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" xmlns:data="data"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate" title="United States Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">United States Senator</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Cantwell" title="Maria Cantwell" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Maria Cantwell</a> (D-WA)</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Gerard" title="Leo Gerard" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Leo Gerard</a>, International President of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Steelworkers" title="United Steelworkers" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">United Steelworkers</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">United States Congressman</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson,Jr." title="Jesse Jackson, Jr." style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background: none;">Jesse Jackson, Jr.</a> (D-IL)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pope" title="Carl Pope" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Carl Pope</a>, Executive Director of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Sierra Club</a></li></ul><h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6;">Chairman<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo_Alliance&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Chairman" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>The Alliance's current Chair is former <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Treasurer" title="California State Treasurer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">California State Treasurer</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Angelides" title="Phil Angelides" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Phil Angelides</a>, who is currently the Chair of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Crisis_Inquiry_Commission" title="Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission</a>.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6;">National Steering Committee<span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo_Alliance&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: National Steering Committee" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3><ul data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii=");" style="line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" xmlns:data="data"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Ruben Aronin, Global Green USA</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Andrew Beebe, Energy Innovations</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Robert L. Borosage, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_America%27s_Future" title="Institute for America's Future" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Institute for America's Future</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Dan Carol, CTSG, Young Apollo</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Maggie Fox, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Sierra Club</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Bracken Hendricks, Apollo Alliance</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones" title="Van Jones" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Van Jones</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Baker_Center_for_Human_Rights" title="Ella Baker Center for Human Rights" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Ella Baker Center for Human Rights</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mindy Lubber, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres(organization)" title="Ceres (organization)" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 102); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Ceres</a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Rogers" title="Joel Rogers" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Joel Rogers</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_on_Wisconsin_Strategy" title="Center on Wisconsin Strategy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Center on Wisconsin Strategy</a> (COWS)</li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Marco Trbovich, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Steelworkers_of_America" title="United Steelworkers of America" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">United Steelworkers of America</a> (USWA)</li></ul><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">Goals[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo_Alliance&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Goals" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>The stated goals of the Apollo Alliance are:<ol style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Promote advanced technology and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_electric_car" title="Hybrid electric car" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">hybrid electric cars</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Invest in more efficient factories.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Encourage <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_performance_building" title="High performance building" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">high performance building</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Increase use of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_energy_use" title="Efficient energy use" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">energy efficient</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_appliance" title="Home appliance" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">appliances</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Modernize electrical infrastructure (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_grid" title="Smart grid" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">smart grid</a>).</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Expand <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">renewable energy</a> development.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Improve transportation options.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Reinvest in smart urban growth.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Plan for a hydrogen future.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Preserve regulatory protections.</li></ol><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3;">See also</h2><ul data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaauaaaanaqmaaabb8jblaaaablbmvex="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAUAAAANAQMAAABb8jbLAAAABlBMVEX" auow5qsojaaaaaxrstlmaqobyzgaaabnjrefucb1jyeabbqw="AUow5QSOjAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAABNJREFUCB1jYEABBQw" wlcagqeagpidyt0ivcsaaaaasuvork5cyii=");" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 22.4px; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_conservation_in_the_United_States" title="Energy conservation in the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">Energy conservation in the United States</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_energy_independence" title="North American energy independence" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">North American energy independence</a></li></ul></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="">Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus stirred up quite a fuss when they unveiled their essay <a href="https://grist.org/article/doe-reprint/" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">“The Death of Environmentalism”</a> last fall, declaring the environmental movement kaput and calling for a more visionary and inspiring progressive movement to take its place. In an interview with Grist, Shellenberger and Nordhaus talk about their ideas, the responses they’ve gotten (or haven’t), and what comes next. Get the backstory <a href="https://grist.org/article/doe-intro/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">here</a>.What exactly do you mean by the death of environmentalism? Are you proposing that all existing environmental organizations should be shuttered, or that they should just nudge their strategies in a new direction?<div class="media alignright" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 300px; float: right; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 0px !important; margin-left: 1.5rem !important;"><img src="https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2005/01/michael_shellenberger.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" />Michael  Shellenberger.</div>Shellenberger: Neither. We need to create a set of very different institutions and, at the same time, not just nudge but transform existing environmental institutions into something more powerful. We are not saying that Natural Resources Defense Council or any of the big national environmental groups need to close their doors. We’re saying that the environmental identity should be updated into something more relevant. What needs to die is a particular conception of what environmentalism is and how environmental advocacy and campaigns are organized and run.In other words, you believe the current strategies are archaic, but the groups that built the movement will survive?Nordhaus: They could, but they need to be radically reconceptualized. The very DNA of these institutions was constructed around a particular idea and model of doing politics, largely based on successes that the environmental movement had in the early ’70s. They were developed to use scientific and legal expertise to identify a problem, craft a very specific technical policy solution to address that problem, and then go hire communications specialists and lobbyists and organizers to go sell that technical policy solution.Shellenberger: That approach is failing for two reasons: First, the values, mindsets, frames of reference, and belief systems Americans use to make sense of the world have changed dramatically over the last 12 years, but the strategies of the environmental movement have not. Second, we’re faced with a set of massive ecological challenges — global warming, global habitat destruction, global species destruction, deterioration of the world’s oceans, the ozone hole — that are fundamentally different from the kind of problems the environmental movement was constructed 30 years ago to address. On every one of these emerging issues, our national environmental movement has been strikingly ineffectual.Your criticisms echo those we’re hearing about the progressive movement at large — criticism that liberals focus too much on precise policy prescriptions rather than communicating a broader values message.Shellenberger: A critique similar to the one we’ve made on environmentalism could be made of many other single-issue movements — women’s rights, abortion rights, anti-war, criminal justice, labor, and so on. Each of those so-called movements has turned itself into a special interest in defining the problem so narrowly and offering technical policy solutions instead of an inspiring vision.<div class="media alignleft" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; max-width: 300px; float: left; line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px !important; margin-right: 1.5rem !important; margin-left: 0px !important;"><img src="https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2005/01/ted_nordhaus.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;" />Ted Nordhaus.</div>Nordhaus: The challenges environmentalists face are very similar to the challenges progressives in general face. Everything environmentalists do going forward needs to be driven not by individual policies, but by the politics — capital P — we want to build: the vision and values, the broader political coalition we need to accomplish our long-term social objectives.Are you saying the environmental movement needs to team up with the other progressive factions to work together on a more holistic vision?Shellenberger: Well, the issue movements did unite around the effort to get rid of Bush. They came together around a particular political strategy, but they didn’t come together around a common vision for the country that’s inspirational and aspirational, nor around a common set of core values.What’s an example of a device that could create the right political context?Shellenberger: Take the proposal for a new Apollo Project. We cofounded the Apollo Alliance by starting first with core values to unify labor, community, civil-rights, and environmental movements around a vision of a new American future based on revitalizing our economic competitiveness and creating good jobs for millions of Americans. And whether or not it passes Congress right away doesn’t matter — Apollo can be used to put anti-environmentalist, anti-labor forces on the defensive. Those who vote against it will confront public scrutiny: “You voted against a program to create 3 million jobs?”By contrast, McCain-Lieberman [aka, the Climate Stewardship Act] doesn’t have nearly the same kind of resonance: “You voted against a cap on carbon?” No senator is going to lose reelection for voting against McCain-Lieberman. Even if McCain-Lieberman passes, it will do nothing to strengthen the progressive movement or make a big difference in the debate over advancing our values.Nordhaus: Apollo changes the categories we use to discuss global warming in that it forces us to take off our environmentalist hat. We’ve got to stop talking about global warming narrowly in terms of carbon emissions and talk about a whole set of very different things — the economy, people’s futures, global trade, and competitiveness.Shellenberger: The usefulness of any legislative proposal should be determined not just by whether it’s going to reduce the level of carbon in the atmosphere, but also whether it’s going to create a cultural environment where much more dramatic and sweeping transformations can take place in the future.When the Republicans fought partial-birth abortion, every time they lost legislatively, they gained power in the court of public opinion and in Congress. They got the message out there, they changed people’s thinking around abortion. We need to fight political battles that even if we lost for several years running, we may be in a stronger position than we are now.Nordhaus: We need to start winning even when we lose. Right now, the environmental movement loses when it loses and even loses when it wins.Interesting point, but the Apollo Alliance example doesn’t convince me that environmentalism is dead. Apollo was founded almost entirely by old-guard environmentalists, which means the traditionalists are themselves generating a new vision.Shellenberger: Of course! Both of us are born of the traditional environmental movement. Ted and I gave the last decade of our lives working as consultants to most of the big environmental organizations and many medium and smaller ones as well. We’re not like <a href="https://grist.org/article/of1/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">Bjorn Lomborg</a> or whatever. Still, Apollo isn’t a panacea, and we took pains to make that point in “Death of Environmentalism.” Apollo was a good start. Now the movement as a whole needs to transcend the moral and intellectual framework that defines modern environmentalism.Can you give another example of the kind of device or initiative that would move the environmental movement beyond its current framework?Nordhaus: What if we introduced a constitutional amendment that said that no state shall pay more in taxes to the federal government than it receives in expenditures from the federal government? What does that have to do with global warming? Well, it would tackle the subsidies dilemma that we’ve been trying to address for years: the federal highway subsidies, the energy subsidies, the coal and oil subsidies. New York and California, for instance, pay vastly more in federal taxes than they receive in federal expenditures and places like Alaska, Alabama, a whole raft of mostly rural and particularly Western and Southern states receive vastly more in federal expenditures than they pay in federal taxes. So this constitutional-amendment approach would take it out of an environmental context and create a political debate that problematizes the politics of subsidies. It recontextualizes the subsidy debate around fairness.Shellenberger: You could poke a hundred holes in it, but it shows that if you get out of your single-issue mindset, if you shake the kind of technical policy approach to this stuff, you can start coming up with creative solutions and campaigns that are both more interesting and, potentially, more powerful politically.I see your point. Still it doesn’t discount the fact that enviros are winning important victories at local levels, waging lawsuits over factory farming and endangered species and pollution that have very real meaning at the grassroots, if not the national, level.Nordhaus: Consider this: Most of those local lawsuits are litigating the Endangered Species Act or the National Environmental Policy Act. Meanwhile, under the new Republican-dominated Congress, it’s not inconceivable that we’re going to lose the ESA and NEPA. So while we may win a few more local lawsuits, the entire regulatory framework could get repealed.Shellenberger: Our argument is that you could win all your little lawsuits, we could pass all the legislation we have on the table locally and nationally, but we would be no closer to achieving our larger objectives. Think about how devastating of a critique that is: If we got everything we wanted right now, we would still be hurtling toward global-warming crisis. We would still be destroying the Amazon, the lungs of the planet. Environmentalists offer no inspiring vision for the world or for the country that speaks in any way to the magnitude of the crisis or to the potential of the American people to really make this transformation.So you’re not necessarily opposed to policy proposals like tighter Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards and McCain-Lieberman, but you believe they are only baby steps?Shellenberger: If we could pass McCain-Lieberman tomorrow, should we pass McCain-Lieberman tomorrow? Of course, why not? Do I think that McCain-Lieberman and CAFE on their own are sufficient? No. Would I support passing CAFE if, in the process of doing so, we poisoned the ground for building the alliance with labor and business we desperately need to substantially reduce carbon emissions in the United States? No.How old are you guys?Nordhaus: Michael’s 33, I’m 39.Do you consider yourselves next-gen environmentalists?Nordhaus: No. There are 22-year-olds who think like Carl Pope and there are 60-year-olds who think like we do. We were criticizing a set of institutions and an intellectual framework, not a generation.Shellenberger: I consider myself a progressive, not an environmentalist. I’m done with “ists” and “isms” generally. I thought the most bizarre part of Carl’s <a href="https://grist.org/article/pope-reprint/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; border-bottom: 0.0625rem solid rgb(7, 96, 126); transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none !important;">response to our paper</a> was the accusation of patricide. Both of our parents have been involved in environmental policy. Ted’s dad wrote significant sections of the Clean Air Act and CAFE. We love our parents and we love what they’ve done. In order to honor their legacy, we have to update it. Environmentalism is outmoded. Death is a part of the process of life. The idea that somehow the environmental movement is, or should be, immortal goes against everything that it claims to believe.Are you saying that environmentalism has become a tradition, not a movement?Nordhaus: Exactly. Movement implies going forward and making progress, tradition implies holding on to the past. After the 2004 [election] defeat there was no admission by environmental leaders that we got our asses handed to us on a platter and that we must rethink everything. Instead what we heard from environmental leaders was that they succeeded in the states and districts they targeted. In his response to our paper, Carl Pope agreed that we’re facing a crisis and that enviros are politically weaker than they were 15 years ago, but then he went on to propose the same damn policies and politics that enviros have been pushing for 30 years.So I take it you didn’t find Pope’s response to your paper convincing?Shellenberger: We were baffled by it. Of all environmental leaders, we thought Carl would embrace this. He’s the guy that reaches out the most to labor unions, he’s the guy that fights anti-immigrant forces. He gave us the most extraordinary interview [when we were conducting research for the paper]. He, more than any other environmental leader, inspired the thesis of this paper.Nordhaus: Carl Pope is the first and, thus far, only major person in the environmental movement to have publicly engaged this discourse at all and for that, if nothing else, we commend him. We emailed all these guys after the article came out and asked if they’d be willing to have a dialogue and the silence has been deafening.Shellenberger: Yeah, it’s like, God, please disagree with us. We would be honored.Would you say that for the sake of creating debate and making your argument, you made exaggerations and generalizations?Shellenberger: No way. I didn’t say anything in there that I regret. Not a single sentence. And we didn’t say anything in there that was designed to provoke. Our intention was not to make people angry, it was to start a debate.Why, then, did you address your complaints directly to funders rather than to the leaders themselves? That seems inherently provocative.Shellenberger: There is no place for public debate in the environmental movement. Even librarians have much fiercer public debates and dialogues than the environmental community. Or look at the AIDS movement, where public-health organizations and government agencies have fantastic debates every year. They have peer-reviewed journals and panel discussions at international conferences. Look at the intense debates over how to stem the flow of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The environmental movement needs a national or international forum to debate strategy.Nordhaus: We definitely wrote this to be provocative and get their attention. But [the Environmental Grantmakers Association meeting] was the only conference, the only place to really talk to the leaders of the movement. Where else should we have gone? There’s no place to go.What do you say to criticisms that in researching your paper you only interviewed the movement’s technicians and not other leaders, like Wendell Berry?Nordhaus: We interviewed the people in the environmental movement who are deciding how to spend tens of millions of dollars annually. Hundreds of millions of dollars in the last decade have been spent to address global warming. I’m sorry, Wendell Berry isn’t the person deciding how the enviro movement is going to construct its campaigns to address global warming. The people we talked to are. They are deciding where this movement is going, where the resources are going. They need to rethink their politics to make it morally compelling. They need to start talking about a future people want to be a part of.Some detractors are saying your paper is nihilistic — that it offers only criticisms and no real proposals for a rehabilitation plan.Nordhaus: We know, we’ve said repeatedly, that our ideas are partially baked and that we need some help in reconstructing a viable political movement. This is not something that we can do in a 30-page pamphlet. We resisted suggestions from early reviewers of the paper to provide specific prescriptions because we wanted to begin a discussion and dialogue, not suggest that we had all the answers.Shellenberger: This paper is about coming to terms with change. Our message is that it’s time to acknowledge both an end and a new beginning and not fear it. As the Taoist saying goes, “If you aren’t afraid of dying, there is nothing you can’t achieve.”</div><div>=</div><div>beware bs</div><div>
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</div><div><section class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 profile-body--key-points" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">Has been a project of the Blue Green Alliance since 2011</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">Formerly a project of the Tides Center</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">Environmental organization that grew out of the Campaign for America’s Future</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">Believes that expanded government intervention and control is the solution to all social and economic problems</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">A notable Apollo Alliance board member was Van Jones.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px;">Had much influence on the Obama administration’s environmental policies</li></ul></div><div class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/apollo-alliance-aa/#resources" class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 resources-link" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; display: inline-flex; padding: 0.25rem 1rem; text-transform: uppercase; border-radius: 999px; border: 1px solid; -webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center;">ADDITIONAL RESOURCES</a></div><hr class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960" style="box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--off-white); margin: 2.25rem 0px;" /></section><section class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 profile-body--section" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 sr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -1px; line-height: 1.25; position: absolute; overflow: hidden; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); height: 1px; width: 1px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"><div class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 section-body f-6 lh-200" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 2;">The earliest roots of the Apollo Alliance (AA) can be traced back to 2004, when <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2460" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Joel Rogers</a> (from the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7565" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Center On Wisconsin Strategy</a>, or COWS), <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1170" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Robert Borosage</a> (<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7332" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Institute for America’s Future</a>, or IAF), and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-carol-a342985/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Dan Carol</a> (Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group, or CTSG) approached United Steelworkers of America president <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2528" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Leo Gerard</a> and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">SEIU</a> president <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1830" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Andrew Stern</a> to propose the creation of a new coalition of organized labor, environmental organizations, business leaders, and social justice activists – all dedicated to the achievement of American energy independence.In order to get their enterprise off the ground, Rogers, Borosage, and Carol submitted a funding proposal to the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5337&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">William and Flora Hewlett Foundation</a>, which in turn gave them a $75,000 grant to bankroll a public-opinion research project on the viability of forming such a coalition. Thus was born the Apollo Alliance, identifying itself as a joint project of COWS, IAF, CTSG, Americans for Energy Freedom, and the anti-capitalist Common Assets Defense Fund.Deriving its name from the “<a href="https://fuelfix.com/blog/2006/06/13/taking-a-cue-from-the-space-race/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">big</a>, bold and fast” Apollo space program that in 1962 resolved to put a man on the moon and achieved its goal within a mere seven years, the nascent AA sought to “catalyze a clean energy revolution that [would] put millions of Americans to work in a new generation of high-quality, green-collar jobs.” By promoting “energy efficiency, clean power, mass transit, next-generation vehicles, and emerging technology,” the Alliance pledged to help “reduce carbon emissions and oil imports, spur domestic job growth, and position America to thrive in the 21st century economy.”The centerpiece of AA’s environmental program was a “Ten-Point Plan for Good Jobs and Energy Independence,” which promoted renewable energy, hybrid vehicles, a modernized electrical infrastructure, energy-efficient buildings and appliances, and a greater number of government-imposed “regulatory protections.” Also central to AA’s agenda was the advancement of “smart urban growth,” whose purpose, as author Stanley Kurtz has explained, is to blend affluent white suburbs, economically and politically, into the poorer, mostly nonwhite cities which they border — chiefly for the purpose of redistributing large portions of property-tax and school-tax revenues from the suburbs to the cities.<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/apollo-alliance-aa/#footnote-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;">[1]</a>AA’s first executive director was <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bracken-hendricks/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Bracken Hendricks</a>, a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=644" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Clinton</a>-era Environmental Protection Agency staffer and a future senior fellow at the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Center for American Progress</a>.AA’s four founding board members in 2004 were <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2528" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Leo Gerard</a>, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1750" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Carl Pope</a>, Rep. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1758" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Jesse Jackson Jr.</a>, and U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell. Additional board members thereafter included people like Joel Rogers, Robert Borosage, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1626" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">John Podesta</a>, Robert Redford, and key figures affiliated with organizations such as the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6898" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Natural Resources Defense Council</a>, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7554" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Green For All</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">SEIU</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7570" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Blue Green Alliance</a>, the Sierra Club, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7513" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">American Federation of Teachers</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6903" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">National Wildlife Federation</a>, and the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6631" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Union of Concerned Scientists</a>.AA’s 11-member national steering committee in 2004 consisted not only of co-founders Rogers, Borosage, and Carol, but also included such notables as <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2506" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Mark Ritchie</a>, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2406" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Van Jones</a>, and leading figures from <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7701" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Global Green USA</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6930" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Sierra Club</a>, and a number of other organizations and labor unions. Van Jones <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/07/29/linking-social-justice-to-green-jobs.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">described</a> AA’s mission as “sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes.”Among AA’s most noteworthy <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060714180516/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">partner</a> groups were the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/ella-baker-center-for-human-rights-ebc/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Ella Baker Center for Human Rights</a> and the infamously corrupt, anti-capitalist community organization <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">ACORN</a>.In late 2007, AA “<a href="http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/docs/NCHRP25-25(62)FR.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">spun off</a>” from its founding organizations, established its own independent board of directors, expanded its staff and activities, and became a <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-apollo-alliance-unifying-activists-on-the-left/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">project</a> of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5184&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Tides Center</a>.In 2009, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2412" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Jeff Jones</a>, a former leader of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Weather Underground</a> terrorist organization in the 1970s, served as <a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-apollo-alliance-unifying-activists-on-the-left/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">director</a> of AA’s New York State affiliate and as a consultant to AA national.AA exerted a powerful influence on the views and policies of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Obama</a> administration, helping to craft significant portions of the $787 billion “stimulus” legislation – officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – that President Obama signed into law in early 2009. Specifically, AA had a hand in writing the “clean energy and green-collar jobs provisions” of the bill, for which $86 billion was earmarked. This included funds “to build new transit and high speed rail lines, weatherize homes, develop next generation batteries for clean vehicles, scale up wind and solar power, build a modern electric grid, and train a new generation of green-collar workers.” As the Capital Research Center notes, Bracken Hendricks’ 2007 book Apollo’s Fire “included electric vehicle tax credits, an alternative refueling property tax credit, a residential energy-efficient property tax credit, funding for advanced lighting research, and large subsidies for power transmission lines for renewable electric sources” – all of which were contained in the 2009 stimulus bill. Moreover, the stimulus included provisions to funnel federal money to left-wing community-organizing groups and social-justice organizations that were active members of AA. Confirming the magnitude of AA’s role in shaping the stimulus bill, Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2282" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Harry Reid</a> said in mid-2009: “The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us [the U.S. Senate] develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them.” <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/apollo-alliance-aa/#footnote-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;">[2]</a>In July 2009, Senator Reid and House Speaker <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1248" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Nancy Pelosi</a> appointed AA board chairman Phil Angelides to <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2009/07/born-to-serve-on-financial-commission-025001" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">serve</a> as chair of the federal government’s newly created Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.In 2010, it was <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=124673" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">reported</a> that AA had been instrumental in helping to draft the “Investments for Manufacturing Progress and Clean Technology Act (IMPCTA) of 2009,” a bill sponsored by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6214" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Democratic</a> Senator <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1514" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Sherrod Brown</a>.Over the years, AA received funding  from numerous foundations and activist organizations, among which were the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5341&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Beldon Fund</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5199&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Bullitt Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5311&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Nathan Cummings Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5292&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Energy Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5176" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Ford Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5310&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Joyce Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5337&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">William and Flora Hewlett Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6201" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">MoveOn.org</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5370&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">New-</a><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5370&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Land Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupprofile.asp?grpid=7718&category=78" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Rockefeller Financial Services</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5184" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Tides Foundation & Tides Center</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5364&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Town Creek Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5422&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Wallace Global Fund</a>, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7509" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Change To Win</a>, <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/moveon-mo/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">MoveOn.org</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderprofile.asp?fndid=5194&category=79" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation</a>, the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7513" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Federation of Teachers</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/surdna-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Surdna Foundation</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/united-food-and-commercial-workers-international-union-ufcw/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">United Food and Commercial Workers</a>, the <a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/service-employees-international-union-seiu/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Service Employees International Union</a>, and the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6898" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Natural Resources Defense Council</a>.<a href="https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/organizations/apollo-alliance-aa/#footnote-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; word-break: break-word;">[3]</a>In July 2011, AA merged with the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7570" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Blue Green Alliance</a> and became a <a href="http://www.bluegreenalliance.org/apollo" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">project</a> of that organization.For additional information on the Apollo Alliance, <a href="https://api.discoverthenetworks.org/additional-information-on-the-apollo-alliance/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">click here</a>.Further Reading: “<a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/tides-legal-laundering-sunshine-on-the-apollo-alliance-four/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Tides’ Legal Laundering: Sunshine on the Apollo Alliance</a>” (Capital Research Center, 3-27-2018); “<a href="https://keywiki.org/Apollo_Alliance" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Apollo Alliance</a>” (Keywiki.org); “<a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-apollo-alliance-unifying-activists-on-the-left/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">The Apollo Alliance: Unifying Activists on the Left</a>” (Capital Research Center, 10-5-2009); “<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Eye3G3xOhtsC&pg=PA210&lpg=#v=onepage&q&f=false" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Apollo Alliance</a>” (Green Jobs for a New Economy, 2009, p. 210); “<a href="https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=19207.0" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Ten-Point Plan for Good Jobs and Energy Independence</a>” (by Apollo Alliance, 2005); <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Members of Apollo Alliance’s Founding Board, National Steering Committee, and Board of Advisors</a> (ApolloAlliance.org, June 2005); <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Apollo Alliance Board of Directors</a> (ApolloAlliance.org, June 2010); “<a href="https://www.wnd.com/2010/02/124673/" style="box-sizing: border-box; word-break: break-word;">Extremists Gone Wild on ‘Green’ Energy Bill [IMPCTA]</a>” (WorldNet Daily, 2-9-2010).</div></h2></section><div class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.75em; line-height: 1.25;">Footnotes</h2><div class="jsx-2660288888 jsx-2789811960 footnotes" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; list-style: none; counter-reset: order 0;"><li id="footnote-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">“<a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/obamas-plans-suburbs-and-how-stop-them-stanley-kurtz/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Obama’s Plans for the Suburbs: And How to Stop Them</a>” (by Stanley Kurtz, National Review, 3-18-2013).</li><li id="footnote-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px; margin-bottom: 16px;">“<a href="https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-apollo-alliance-unifying-activists-on-the-left/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">The Apollo Alliance: Unifying Activists on the Left</a>” (Capital Research Center, 10-5-2009).</li><li id="footnote-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; padding-left: 24px;">Funders of the Apollo Alliance (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050703073726/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#1" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">ApolloAlliance.org</a>, <a href="https://keywiki.org/Apollo_Alliance" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Keywiki.org</a>).</li></ol></div></div></div><div></div><div>ref</div><div>
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</div><div> Apollo Alliance is a broad coalition within the labor, environmental, business, urban, and faith communities in support of good jobs and energy independence. It has been endorsed by the AFL-CIO and 23 international labor unions as well as a majority of national environmental organizations. The Alliance is developing public education campaigns and communications strategies to link allies and build a new national constituency for a bold, broad based, and immediate program of public policy to achieve energy independence.In 1961, President John F. Kennedy inspired Americans to pursue a goal that seemed beyond our reach: to land a man on the moon within the decade. Eight years later, Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong set foot on the lunar surface – proof we can succeed when we apply our expertise, innovation and can-do spirit to a single national endeavor.

Now America has an Apollo Project for the 21st century. Our challenge is to achieve energy independence in one generation. This new Apollo Project, a ten-point plan for energy independence, will bring our country together to rethink and reshape our energy future, to create a stronger economy, a safer world and cleaner environment. The plan calls for diversifying our energy sources, making America less dependent on imported oil and making energy less polluting. It will invest in new technology and expand markets for American durable goods. And, it will increase construction of high performance energy efficient buildings and drive new spending on transportation and public infrastructure.The new Apollo Project will pay huge dividends: Millions of high value added jobs, lower utility bills, increased productivity and competitiveness, cleaner air and water, and improved public health. It will produce substantial energy cost savings across the economy, and dramatically reduce our oil imports.Apollo will go beyond reducing our dependence on oil. It will also rejuvenate America's economy.<hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" />The Apollo Alliance is a joint project of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.ourfuture.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Institute for America's Future</a> and the<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.cows.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Center on Wisconsin Strategy</a>.  The Apollo Alliance is a 501-c3 organization.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Founding Board Members</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#aansc" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Apollo Alliance National Steering Committee</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Board of Advisors</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#3" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Labor Unions</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Environmental Organizations</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Economic, Social Justice, Faith-Based, and Regional Partners</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Business Partners and Endorsers</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Foundations</a>
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org:80/about_the_alliance/#9" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Founding Organizations</a><h3 align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="1" name="1">Founding Board Members:</a></h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org/cantwell.cfm" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Senator Maria Cantwell, MS Congress (D-WA)</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org/uswa.cfm" style="text-decoration-line: none;">President Leo W. Gerard, The United Steel Workers of America</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org/jackson.cfm" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Representative Jesse Jackson Jr., US Congress (D-IL)</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.apolloalliance.org/sierraclub.cfm" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Carl Pope, Executive Director of the Sierra Club</a></li></ul><h3 align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="aansc" name="aansc">Apollo Alliance National Steering Committee:
</a></h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><div align="justify">Ruben Aronin, Global Green USA</div></li><li><div align="justify">Andrew Beebe, Energy Innovations</div></li><li><div align="justify">Robert L. Borosage, Institute for America’s Future</div></li><li><div align="justify">Dan Carol, CTSG</div></li><li><div align="justify">Maggie Fox, Sierra Club</div></li><li><div align="justify">Bracken Hendricks, Apollo Alliance</div></li><li><div align="justify">Van Jones, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights</div></li><li><div align="justify">Mindy Lubber, CERES</div></li><li><div align="justify">Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy</div></li><li><div align="justify">Joel Rogers, Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS)</div></li><li><div align="justify">Marco Trbovich, United Steelworkers of America (USWA)
</div></li></ul><h3 align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Board of Advisors:</h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Phil Angelides, California State Treasurer</li><li>President Andrew Beebe, Energy Innovations, An Idea Lab Company</li><li>Chairman Julian Bond, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)</li><li>President Thomas Buffenbarger, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers</li><li>Henry Cisneros, former Mayor of San Antonio, Texas</li><li>Jan Hartke, Executive Director, EarthVoice</li><li>Vice President Gerry Hudson, SEIU Local 1199</li><li>Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA)</li><li>Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Systems and Mitchell Kapor Foundation</li><li>Bill Lucy, Secretary/Treasurer, AFSCME</li><li>William Lynch</li><li>William McDonough, Architect, Author, Educator</li><li>Kathleen A. McGinty, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Energy</li><li>President Terence M. O’Sullivan, Laborers’ International <st1:place xmlns:st1="st1">Union</st1:place> of North America</li><li>Art Pulaski, Secretary-Treasurer, <st1:state xmlns:st1="st1">California</st1:state> Labor Federation</li><li>Governor Ed Rendell, <st1:state xmlns:st1="st1">Pennsylvania</st1:state></li><li>Anthony Thigpenn, Executive Director AGENDA</li><li>President Danny Thompson, <st1:state xmlns:st1="st1">Nevada</st1:state> Labor Federation</li></ul><h3 align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="3" name="3">The Apollo Alliance has been endorsed by the following labor unions:</a></h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>AFL-CIO</li><li>AFL-CIO Industrial Union Council (IUC)</li><li>AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Dept</li><li>National Heavy and Highway Alliance</li><li>Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU)</li><li>American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)</li><li>Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Intl. Union (BCTGM)</li><li>Boilermakers Union (IBB)</li><li>California Labor Federation</li><li>Graphic Communications Industrial Union (GCIU)</li><li>Hawaii AFL-CIO</li><li>Illinois AFL-CIO</li><li>Indiana AFL-CIO</li><li>International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM)</li><li>International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW)</li><li>International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT)</li><li>International Union of Electrical Workers (IUE-CWA)</li><li>King County Labor Council, AFL-CIO</li><li>Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA)</li><li>Metropolitan Detroit, AFL-CIO</li><li>Michigan AFL-CIO</li><li>Minnesota AFL-CIO</li><li>Oregon AFL-CIO</li><li>Paper and Allied Chemical Employees (PACE)</li><li>Pennsylvania AFL-CIO</li><li>Service Employees International Union (SEIU)</li><li>Sheet Metal Workers International Association (SMWIA)</li><li>Transportation Workers Union (TWU)</li><li>United Automobile and Aerospace Workers (UAW)</li><li>United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW)</li><li>United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)</li><li>UNITE!</li><li>United Steel Workers of America (USWA)</li><li>Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO</li><li>Wisconsin AFL-CIO
</li></ul><h3 align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="4" name="4" /><a id="5" name="5">We have been endorsed by the following environmental organizations:</a></h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Blue Water Network</li><li>Center for Environmental Citizenship</li><li>Center for Environmental Health</li><li>Ceres</li><li>Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Conventions</li><li>The Detroit Project</li><li>Environment 2004</li><li>Environmental Law and Policy Center</li><li>EarthVoice</li><li>Greenpeace USA</li><li>Healthy School Network</li><li>Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy</li><li>League of Conservation Voters</li><li>National Wildlife Federation</li><li>Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)</li><li>Project Democracy</li><li>Rainforest Action Network</li><li>Republicans for Environmental Protection</li><li>The Sierra Club</li><li>The Sierra Student Coalition</li><li>South Carolina Coastal Conservation League</li><li>Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)</li></ul><h3 align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="6" name="6">Economic, Social Justice, Faith-Based, and Regional Partners:</a></h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Action for Grassroots Economic and Neighborhood Development</li><li>Alternatives (AGENDA)</li><li>Black Farmers USA</li><li>Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU)</li><li>Ella Baker Center for Human Rights</li><li>Jim Hightower and The Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour</li><li>Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy</li><li>South Carolina Coastal Conservation League</li><li>Urban Agenda</li></ul><h3 style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="8" name="8">Business Partners Supportive of Apollo:</a></h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>The American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE)</li><li>Aspen Snowmass</li><li>Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities</li><li>Andrew Beebe, Energy Innovations/Idea Labs</li><li>Jim Callihan, Renewable Energy Access</li><li>Brian Dupin, PV Powered</li><li>Christine Ervin, Ervin + Company, former President, U.S. Green Building Council</li><li>Daystar Technologies</li><li>East Haven Wind Farm</li><li>First Affirmative</li><li>Leonard Gertler, All American Home Center</li><li>Jim Gordon, Cape Wind</li><li>Pat Gruber, CTO, NatureWorks (formerly Cargill-Dow)</li><li>Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus Systems</li><li>Jim McDermott, US Renewables Group</li><li>William McDonough, William McDonough Partners</li><li>Pacific Ethanol</li><li>Tom Starrs, Bonneville Environmental Foundation</li><li>Gregory F. Wendt, Enright Premier Wealth Advisors, Inc.</li><li>R. Peter Wilcox, President, Renewal Associates, LLC</li></ul><h3 align="justify" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="7" name="7">The Apollo Alliance acknowledges the generous support of the following individuals and foundations:</a></h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li>Agnus Gund</li><li>Beldon Fund</li><li>The Belvedere Fund</li><li>The Bullitt Foundation</li><li>Nathan Cummings Foundation</li><li>The Energy Foundation</li><li>The Ford Foundation</li><li>French American Charitable Trust</li><li>General Service Foundation</li><li>The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation</li><li>The John W. and Clara C. Higgins Foundation</li><li>John Hunting</li><li>Move On</li><li>New Land Foundation</li><li>New York Community Trust (NYCT)</li><li>The Overbrook Foundation</li><li>Rockefeller Financial Services</li><li>Tides Foundation</li><li>Town Creek Foundation</li><li>The United Nations Better World Fund</li><li>The Wallace Global Fund</li></ul><h3 style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a id="9" name="9">Founding Organizations:</a></h3><hr style="height: 1px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.ourfuture.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Institute for America’s Future</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.cows.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Center on Wisconsin Strategy</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.commonassets.org/template.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Common Assets Defense Fund</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.thebreakthrough.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Breakthrough Institute</a></li><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050611075925/http://www.ctsg.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Carol/Trevelyan Strategy Group</a></li></ul></div><div>---</div><div>ref 2</div><div>
</div><div><h3 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 5px 0px 10px;">Apollo Board of Directors</h3><hr style="" />Chairman<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Phil_Angelides" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Phil Angelides, President, Riverview Capital Investments
</a>Members<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Robert_L_Borosage" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Robert Borosage, President, Institute for America’s Future</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Phaedra_Lamkins" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, Chief Executive Officer, Green For All</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Leo_W_Gerard" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Leo Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers Union</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Gerald_Hudson" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Gerald Hudson, International Executive Vice President, Service Employees International Union</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Mindy_Lubber" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Mindy Lubber, President, CERES</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Nancy_McFadden" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Nancy McFadden, Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corporation</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Terence_O'Sullivan" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Terence M. O’Sullivan, General President, Laborers’ International Union of North America</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Ellen_Pao" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Ellen Pao, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Michael_Peck" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Michael Peck, Principal, MAPA Incorporated</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#John_Podesta" style="text-decoration-line: none;">John Podesta, President and CEO of the Center for American Progress</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Carl_Pope" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Carl Pope, Executive Director, Sierra Club</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Dan_W_Reicher" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Dan W. Reicher, Director of Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Jerome_Ringo" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Jerome Ringo, Senior Executive for Global Strategies, Green Port</a><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100622091313/http://apolloalliance.org:80/about/board/#Joel_Rogers" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Joel Rogers, Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy</a></div><div>---</div><div><div id="mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="mw-content-ltr" style="direction: ltr; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="mw-parser-output">Apollo Alliance began in 2003 when "<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ted_Nordhaus" title="Ted Nordhaus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ted Nordhaus</a> and <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Shellenberger" title="Michael Shellenberger" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Michael Shellenberger</a> co-founded the Apollo Alliance to unite major environmental groups and labor unions around a high-tech vision for the future of the American economy. The coalition called for a new “Apollo Project” to revitalize the American economy built around a $300 billion, 10-year effort to accelerate the transition to clean energy. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a>It is a group of U.S. business, labor, environmental, and community leaders working to promote clean energy as a means of creating energy independence, reducing carbon emissions, and generating new jobs for and opportunities for American workers and businesses.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a> The group was founded by <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=COWS" title="COWS" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">COWS</a> and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_America%27s_Future" title="Institute for America's Future" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Institute for America's Future</a> in 2004.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> Chaired by former California State Treasurer and Democratic gubernatorial candidate <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Phil_Angelides&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phil Angelides (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Phil Angelides</a>, the Board includes the president of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NRDC" class="mw-redirect" title="NRDC" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">NRDC</a> and the executive director of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sierra_Club" title="Sierra Club" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sierra Club</a>, the heads of the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Laborers%27_International_Union_of_North_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laborers' International Union of North America (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Laborers' International Union of North America</a> and the <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_Steelworkers_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United Steelworkers Union (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United Steelworkers Union</a>, and actor and environmentalist <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Redford</a>.<a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a>The group advances a plan to lessen the country’s dependence on foreign oil, build a stronger economy, and create a cleaner environment. The ten-point plan calls for diversifying energy sources by expanding the use of existing renewable technologies such as solar, wind, and biomass; modernizing existing power plants; investing in long-term development of hydrogen fuel cell technology; increasing incentives for and prevalence of hybrid cars and energy-efficient building and appliances; and improving transportation options and public infrastructure for metropolitan areas. <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cathy_Calfo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cathy Calfo (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cathy Calfo</a>, Executive Director</li></ul><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><div class="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background: none; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 1.3;">Contents</h2>  [<a role="button" tabindex="0" class="togglelink" style="background: none; cursor: pointer;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#Board_Members" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Board Members</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#Staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Staff</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#Contact_Information" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Contact Information</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#Resources" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Resources</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.1References</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#Related_SourceWatch_articles" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.2Related SourceWatch articles</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4.3External links</a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Board Members</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Phil_Angelides&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Phil Angelides (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Phil Angelides</a>, Chairman - Businessman and former California State Treasurer</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Frances_Beinecke" class="mw-redirect" title="Frances Beinecke" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Frances Beinecke</a> - President, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Natural_Resources_Defense_Council" title="Natural Resources Defense Council" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Natural Resources Defense Council</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Borosage" title="Robert Borosage" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Borosage</a> - President, Institute for America's Future</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Leo_Gerard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Leo Gerard (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Leo Gerard</a> - International President, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=United_Steelworkers_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="United Steelworkers Union (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United Steelworkers Union</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Van_Jones" title="Van Jones" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Van Jones</a> - President, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Green_for_All" class="mw-redirect" title="Green for All" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Green for All</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mindy_Lubber" class="mw-redirect" title="Mindy Lubber" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mindy Lubber</a> - President, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=CERES" class="mw-redirect" title="CERES" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">CERES</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kathleen_McGinty&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kathleen McGinty (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kathleen McGinty</a> - Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Regis_McKenna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Regis McKenna (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Regis McKenna</a> -Regis McKenna, Inc.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terence_O%27Sullivan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terence O'Sullivan (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Terence O'Sullivan</a> - General President, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Laborers%27_International_Union_of_North_America&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Laborers' International Union of North America (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Laborers' International Union of North America</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ellen_Pao&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ellen Pao (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ellen Pao</a> - Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carl_Pope" title="Carl Pope" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carl Pope</a> - Executive Director, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sierra_Clu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sierra Clu (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sierra Club</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Redford</a> - Actor, Director, Environmentalist</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dan_W.Reicher&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dan W. Reicher (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dan W. Reicher</a> - Director of <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Climate_Change_and_Energy_Initiatives,Google&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Climate Change and Energy Initiatives, Google</a></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Joel_Rogers" title="Joel Rogers" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Joel Rogers</a> - Director, <a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_on_Wisconsin_Strategy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Center on Wisconsin Strategy (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Center on Wisconsin Strategy</a></li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Staff</h2><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lucy_Blake" title="Lucy Blake" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lucy Blake</a> - CEO</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jerome_Ringo" title="Jerome Ringo" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jerome Ringo</a> - President</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mary_Raftery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mary Raftery (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mary Raftery</a> - Chief Operating Officer</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cathy_Calfo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cathy Calfo (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cathy Calfo</a> - Deputy Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Keith_Schneider&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Keith Schneider (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Keith Schneider</a> - Communications Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Dan_Seligman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dan Seligman (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dan Seligman</a> - Washington Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kate_Gordon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kate Gordon (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Kate Gordon</a> - Program Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Richard_Eidli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Richard Eidli (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Eidli</a> - Business Outreach Director</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Carla_Din&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carla Din (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Carla Din</a> - Western Regional Field Director</li></ul><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Contact Information</h2>Apollo Alliance San Francisco Office
330 Townsend St, Suite 205
San Francisco, CA 94107
Phone: 415.371.1700
Fax: 415.371.1707
Apollo Alliance DC Office
1825 K Street NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202.587.1616
Fax: 202.955.5606
Email: feedback [at] apolloalliance.org<h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Resources</h2><h3 style="background: none; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">References</h3><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://thebreakthrough.org/about/history/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">History of Breakthrough</a>, Breakthrough website accessed April 11, 2013.</li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_ref-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apolloalliance.org/about.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Mission</a>, Apollo Alliance website, accessed April 2008.</li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_ref-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apolloalliance.org/about.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">The First Years</a>, Apollo Alliance website, accessed April 2008.</li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_ref-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apolloalliance.org/about_board.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">Apollo Board of Directors</a>, Apollo Alliance website, accessed April 2008.</li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Apollo_Alliance#cite_ref-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apolloalliance.org/resources_tenpointplan.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">The Ten-Point Plan for Good Jobs and Energy Independence</a>, Apollo Alliance website, accessed April 2008.</li></ol></div><h3 style="background: none; 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(Pdf)</li></ul><ul style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.1%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apolloalliance.org/resources_tenpointplan.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22" standalone="%22no%22%3F%3E%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22/%3E%3C/svg%3E" stroke="%22%2306c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">The Ten-Point Plan for Good Jobs and Energy Independence</a>, Apollo Alliance website, accessed April 2008.</li></ul></div></div><div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 5px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both;"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Categories</a>: <ul style="list-style: none none; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0.5em 0px 0.25em; zoom: 1;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Coal_Issues" title="Category:Coal Issues" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Coal Issues</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Energy" title="Category:Energy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Energy</a></li><li style="margin: 0.125em 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.25em; border-left: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0px 0.5em; zoom: 1;"><a href="https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Category:Green_Capitalism" title="Category:Green Capitalism" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Green Capitalism</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div></div><div>right soup wackos</div><div>nb beck video: 7 min vast leftwing conspiracy, van jones, phil kepen</div><div>
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The Apollo Alliance is a very powerful coalition of unions like the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6535" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid;">SEIU</a>, along with “Social Justice” groups like <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6968" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid;">ACORN</a> and it’s myriad of underlings…(the largest radical group in America, with more than 400,000 dues-paying member families , and more than 1,200 chapters in 110 U.S. cities.)The Alliance is united by their collective belief that America is a chief source of worldwide “environmental disruption, rising social inequity, and … fundamentalist anger.” Apollo Alliance’s endorsing organizations and partners include Greenpeace, the League of Conservation Voters, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Wildlife Federation, the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and, of course, ACORN. Apollo Alliance’s National Steering Committee and National Advisory Board members include, among others, Robert Borosage, Carl Pope of the Sierra Club, Julian Bond of the NAACP, Gerry Hudson of the Service Employees International Union, and U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. Apollo Alliance has also received strong support from the socialist Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, and from Hillary Rodham Clinton.The Alliance has boasted of writing both the stimulus bill AND Cap and Trade. And it is driving the Obama Reich’s agenda with unbelievable force.The Apollo Alliance is a creation of the lefty “Tides Foundation”, is railroading the “green agenda”, and releases no financial data. It’s exerting HUGE influence on the bills and policies coming from Washington that are destroying America. At the helm is Van Jones, a proud Communist who is Obama’s “Green Czar” and heads the “Green Initiative.” Apollo Alliance Board Chair Phil Angelides, former Treasurer of the State of California (!) was appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to serve as the Chair of the newly created Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6709" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid;">Center for American Progress</a> president <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1626" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid;">John Podesta</a> is also a major participant in the Alliance.The map above shows the Alliance’s key players and connections. Note Al Gore’sname…he’ll make off like a bandit under Cap and Trade; Carol Browner— Obama’s Environmental Czar, and International Socialist… who also belongs to the “Sustainable World Society”, and Robert Borosage a HUGE liberal-Progressive operator. Watch and learn about the group that is telling Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid what to do:<img src="http://rightsoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/apollo-democracy-alliance.jpg" alt="apollo-democracy-alliance" title="apollo-democracy-alliance" width="469" height="433" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8894" style="border: none;" />
The Democracy Alliance and The Tides Foundation Key Players And ConnectionsNote these names in particular: <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid;">George Soros</a>–Multi-billionaire funder of leftwing causes and groups, Tides Foundation’s <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1773" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid;">Wade Rathke</a> (ACORN founder), and Anna Burger–Secretary Treasurer of SEIU, with massive influence over Obama.Phil Kerpen, director of policy for <a href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid;">Americans for Prosperity</a> gives the down-low on the Alliance:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 5px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">The Apollo Alliance “is designed to bring together the elements of organized labor with the community organizers with the green groups, the environmental groups, and to access all of the big foundation money that’s been supportive of those causes in the past.Self-professed militant communist Van Jones described Apollo’s mission as “sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes; it ties all these things together,” according to Kerpen.</blockquote>The Apollo Alliance was co-founded by <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7331" style="text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid;">Campaign for America’s Future</a>, the George Soros-funded organization that supports an ever-expanding welfare state via redistribution of wealth.Kerpen says that Wade Rathke, (the founder of ACORN who covered up his brother’s embezzlement of nearly $1 million in ACORN funds), had been a member of the Apollo Alliance’s board. “Yes. He’s on — he was until this year on the board of the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, which are the parent organizations that host the Apollo Alliance.”<img src="http://rightsoup.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/apollo-they-work-for-us-obamas-media-support.jpg" alt="apollo-they-work-for-us-obamas-media-support" title="apollo-they-work-for-us-obamas-media-support" width="469" height="433" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8895" style="border: none;" />
Obama’s media support led by “They Work For Us”: these are the organizations who direct and control the Obamabots. They spam forums, write propaganda, and shill for Barry. YOU are really the ones they want “working for us.” They are the enemy.So the Apollo Alliance has boasted that they wrote the Stimulus Bill AND the Cap and Trade Bill. Did they write the Healthcare Bill too?Here are a couple to ask your Reps during their town-hall meetings:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 5px; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);">“Did Waxman/Hartley actually write the Cap and Trade bill; or did the Blue-Green Alliance Or the Alliance for Climate Protection?”“Can you honestly answer exactly WHO wrote the House Health care Bill; all 1,000+pages of it…within 6 months of Obama taking office? Who specifically are the “community organizations” mentioned on pages 469-472?”</blockquote></div></div><div></div>