The Center for Working Families works with community based organizations and policy advocates to provide elected leaders with the research support to make bold policy proposals, and to strategize with organizations and activists to enact them.

One of the Center’s big achievements is the policy blueprint for Green Jobs/Green NY program, an unprecedented statewide initiative to retrofit one million homes and small businesses in five years. The program will make New York homes energy efficient, lower fossil fuel emissions, and combat climate change. It will save households an average of 30-40% of energy consumption, create around 60,000 quality green job-years and obviate the need for new power plants. Most importantly, the upfront costs of the retrofit work will be paid for through third-party investor, such as pension funds or private investors, and fully paid back through energy bill savings — all off of the state’s budget. This public/private initiative is the largest residential retrofit program ever initiated: a model for the nation at a critical moment in national energy planning.

• Center for Working Families
• New York State Senate - Green Jobs/Green NY

Course Recommendations - recommended coursework for Yale students interested in this field:

• MGT 563 - Energy Systems Analysis;
• MGT 567 - The Environment and the Marketplace;
• MGT 685 - Private Investment and the Environment;
• MGT 820 - Energy Markets Strategy;
• FES 80030 - Forecasting Energy Futures: Pitfalls and Prospects;
• FES 86059 - Cities and Sustainability in the Developing World;
• ENVE 101 - Energy, Engines, and the Environment;
• LAW 20023 - Community and Economic Development;
• LAW 20435 - Advanced Community and Economic Development; and
• LAW 20526 - Green Energy Policy.

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This event is organized in collaboration with the Connecticut Fund for the Environment, the School of Management and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Energy Clubs with outreach partners ACORE, Connecticut Clean Energy Fund, Connecticut Energy Efficiency Fund, and New England Clean Energy Council.

Funding for the Carbon Finance Speaker Series "MegaWatts on Main Street" was made possible by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.