Adin Maynard from Cozy Home is asked to join the ‘Down to Earth’ campaign of the Massachusetts Workforce Alliance to advance sustainable economic development in Massachusetts. Adin brings his experience as Chair of the MA chapter of Efficiency First, and his experieince working to ‘open up’ the Mass Save utility programs to home performance contractors to achieve deeper energy savings and scalable job creation through building retrofits. As Director of Operations for Cozy Home Performance, Adin also brings a unique perspective from the field in a quiet, yet hopeful Massachusetts energy efficiency industry.
More about the Down to Earth policy campaign form MWA:
Down to Earth
MWA’s Down toEarth Campaign (D2E) is a policy initiative that uses a deliberately economic development lens to look at ways we can advance a sustainable economy that builds on the talents of low-income populations. To do this we have created a multi-disciplinary Steering Committee comprised of:
▪ Boston Climate Action Network (BCAN)
▪ Boston Youth Environmental Network (BYEN)
▪ Environmental League of Massachusetts (ELM)
▪ Green Justice Coalition/Community Labor United (CLU)
▪ Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH)
▪ Massachusetts Association for Community Action (MASSCAP)
▪ Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations (MACDC)
▪ Massachusetts Workforce Alliance (MWA)
▪ Youthbuild
Through aseries of six intensive Steering Committee Meetings we have brainstormed 80+potential ideas for ways to create a sustainable economy with the potential to create accessible jobs — or career ladders to jobs — that are safe and have family sustaining wages, while mitigating the effects of climate change. We have narrowed our focus to four big arenas of interest where we believe jobs will emerge that meet our criteria: food, water, green micro-enterprise and energy efficiency. What follows is our current working sense of job creation possibilities in these four arenas.
