🎙 NECEC President Pens Insightful Op-Ed in The Bay State Banner newspaper! 🎙 Today, our President, Joe Curtatone, has an op-ed in the Bay State Banner calling for support of the Office of Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development (EOED) Mass Leads Act and a dual approach to economic and environmental policy. "While the climate crisis is one of the most pressing issues of our time, it does not register with the average voter, who is reasonably more concerned with being able to put food on the table and raise their family while costs for the basics continue to skyrocket. However, addressing climate change is not just about preserving our environment—it's about transforming our economy and creating jobs. With the right policies and a commitment from our legislative leadership, we can create thousands of good-paying jobs in infrastructure, manufacturing, and transportation, which benefit communities of color who have been traditionally left behind. If done right, this dual economic and environmental policy approach can usher in a new era of prosperity and sustainability." -- Joe Curtatone Shoutout to the new owners of the Bay State Banner, André Stark and Ron Mitchell, who we had the pleasure of hearing at Meet the Media, hosted by MASSterlist and SHNS. Read more: https://lnkd.in/d5_g-eSt #MassLeadsAct #ClimateAction #EconomicGrowth #Sustainability #GreenJobs #NECEC #EnvironmentalJustice
André Stark
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Great to have your insights in the paper!
Rob Brennan
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This is what visionary leadership looks like! Thank you Joe for giving voice to this messaging!
SMART Cities - SMART Communities Director at AutonomousCRE+
1wSounds like what we've been trying to do at the Cape Cod Watershed Institute, Connected Communities platform and what we are doing at Sandwich Green in Forestdale, MA right now. It's also the focus for our Earthshot Prize Platform with Rotary International. Net-Zero Now in water and energy pollution as a holistic approach to institutional convergence and a brighter future everywhere. The old fragemented isolated ways were broken, it's why we're in the crisis we're in. Time for the Pivot to Rotary Internationals ESRAG Plan-B in Community Sustainability and Resiliency. Because we may just be out of time and this is the only option for our world to survive and just maybe thrive as we fix what we've broken. Massachusetts is setting a new course with the Healey Administration plans for the full court press in dealing with the multifaceted crisis of education, workforce training, housing, water and energy pollution and the their impacts. Only Bold Vision will do.