We Can Take It - the Civilian Conservation Corps for GREEN JOBS
PROJECT IDEAS AFTER REACTIVATION

Similar guidelines set in the Roosevelt Administration on the previous page as a . . . civilian conservation corps to be used in forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects . . .  but here are new ideas to be used....

                                         

NEW CCC PROJECTS ?

 

National and Community Service

 

Repair and build structures, campgrounds, picnic areas and shelters on our public lands.

( Work crews could provide labor and coordinate labor in projects

with non-profits as Habitat for Humanity to construct low-income housing.)

 

 

Historical Restoration and Preservation

Conservation-restoration, introducing enrollees to the profession devoted

to the preservation of cultural property as restoring historic buildings

to performing Archeoalogical excavations.  CCC enrolless would take pride

in learning history while working to preserve our past.

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CCC would build wind turbines on our public lands

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wind turbines on our seas and shores Photo: GETTY

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Install solar panels on our public lands

 

Solar Energy Installation on our Public Lands

CCC enrollees would receive training to install and maintain a variety of

solar alternative energy products such as wind generators, tidal generators and photvoltaic cells units

on our public lands, shores, sea and waterways .

Hazardous Waste Disposal
 
Enrollees would receive current pollution control technologies training in hazardous waste materials disposal. 
They would be equipped to perform those duties on our public and adjacent lands and waters. 
Fly-ash disposal and mountain top and strip mining clean-up and reclamation would require training
in using heavy equipment.  Clean-up could involve workcrews performing tasks
using phytoremediation in waste disposal on our public and adjacent land and watersheds.
(Phytoremediation consists in mitigating pollutant concentrations in
contaminated soils, water or air with plants able to contain, degrade or
eliminate metals, pesticides, solvents, explosives, crude oil and its derivatives,
and various other contaminants, from the media that contain them.)

CCC Public Work Projects from Low to Hi Tech

Enrollees would travel, work, earn, learn to live together as they perform low-tech work projects from planting trees to perform high-tech jobs installing and maintaining wind turbines and solar cells.  They would benefit in real time green job experience working in the outdoors on our nation's public lands (as our national parks and forests) and adjacent private lands, shores, and waterways.

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CCC workers could build wind turbines on green landscape

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800px-Mafate Marla solar panel

REMEMBER TO CALL, FAX, OR POST A LETTER to your members of Congress or

to Congressional Committees to Reactivate the CCC at (202) 224-3121.

Then phone and leave your message on the President's Comment Line at (202) 546-1111.

Or email http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/ - Send to WH Attention: :"Jobs Advisory Group".

I propose to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects . . .  

More important, however, than the material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."

                                          Franklin D. Roosevelt, March21, 1933

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