The Alameda Budget Challenge, launched in partnership with Next 10, a San Francisco-based nonprofit, is live online now. Use it to cut or increase spending to key departments including police, fire, recreation and parks, public works and library. Raise taxes: sales, utility or hotel.
City Treasurer Kevin Kennedy and Deputy City Manager Lisa Goldman came up with the idea to put the challenge to the test here in Alameda after seeing a similar presentation that a company called Next 10 put on the table for California.
Next 10’s Many Shades of Green report tells a different story. The new report documents California’s green economy, finding that green jobs haven’t been as vulnerable to recession. Tiffany Hsu explains on Money & Co.
According to the report produced by Next 10 , a nonpartisan research group, the state’s green sector outperformed the overall economy by retaining a greater percentage of its work force at the height of the recession.
Since the mid-1990s, green jobs in San Diego County have grown more than twice as fast as the overall average and weathered the past two recessions better than most other industries, according to a report released Tuesday by Next10, a research organization focused on the environmental industry.
The report, from the Next 10 public policy group, defines the core green economy as businesses that provide alternatives to carbon-based energy sources, conserve energy or natural resources, reduce pollution, or find new uses for waste.
The state's overall economy lost 7% of jobs between January 2009 and January 2010 while its "core green economy" lost 3%, according to the study released by San Francisco-based Next 10, a nonpartisan research group focused on innovation.
