Sustainable Business Alliance
The Sustainable Business Alliance is a membership organization for companies committed to greater environmental and socially responsible business practices. Our members are a diverse community of over 100 sustainable businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area. We strengthen our businesses through networking, education, and partnership opportunities. We learn from and support each other through strong community and collaboration.
Our mission is to promote sustainable business practices, nurture the environmentally-committed business sector, advocate the environmentally progressive policies, and improve the environmental profile of economic activity in the East Bay.
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In Support Of AB32 Renewable Energy Law
Keeping on top of current green energy related legislation, Sustainable Business Alliance Executive Director Mark McLeod writes in to say this is one of the best pieces he has seen supporting full implementation of AB32 on the California November ballot:
According to a report released last month from the state's Economic Development Department, there are more than 500,000 clean-tech jobs in California. Most of them are in the manufacturing and construction sectors. Unlike the biotech belt in San Diego or the high tech industry centered in Silicon Valley, these high-paying jobs are spread across the state.
Recent economic studies show that the clean-job sector is also the fastest-growing in the state. The number of California green businesses has increased 45 percent and green jobs expanded by 36 percent from 1995-2008 while total jobs in California expanded only 13 percent.
But economics are not the only reason to oppose the dirty energy proposition. This initiative will let the Texas oil companies and other polluters off the hook for reducing their pollution – drastically increasing air pollution and public health risks.
Making matters worse, by killing AB32 and keeping us dependent on fossil fuels, this initiative will increase household electricity costs in California by 33 percent. (Low-income families already pay more. Households in the lowest income bracket must spend more than twice the share of their total income on electricity than households in the highest income bracket).
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