Ithaca, NY, adopted a Green New Deal in June 2019. Their goal is achieving carbon neutrality community-wide by 2030, while ensuring benefits are shared so as to reduce historical inequities. We interview Luis Aguirre-Torres, Ithaca's dynamic new Sustainability Director, about his big plans for achieving Ithaca's goals, and how he's already raised $150M by creating ground-breaking relationships between private capital, business, government, and philanthropies.

Resources

• Ithaca Green New Deal website
• Ithaca's Energy Efficiency Retrofitting and Thermal Load Electrification Program - RFP
• Federal Green New Deal - House of Representatives resolution
• Federal Green New Deal - background from NY Times
• Sunrise Movement national and Sunrise Ithaca

Recast photo by Kenneth C. Zirkel, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons