Climate scientists have determined that we must act now to prevent an irreversible and
catastrophic climatic tipping point beyond which neither our own nor many other species can be
assumed likely to survive. On the way to that bleak ending moreover extreme socio-economic
injustice and associated political breakdown-now well underway in nations already hard-hit by
environmental crisis-can be expected to hasten as well. The time has thus come to plan
carefully thoroughly and on a scale commensurate with the crisis we face. This book written
by one of the key architects of the Green New Deal and prefaced by Representative Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez's former Chief of Staff indicates how to structure Green New Deal finance in a
manner that advances the cross-cutting goals of maximum financial and economic inclusion
maximally democratic decision-making and an appropriate division of roles both among all
levels of government and among public and private sector decision-makers. Integrating into one
complete and coherent financial architecture such bold ideas as a 'People's Fed ' an
interdepartmental National Investment Council integrated state and regional public banks a
Democratic Digital Dollar and digital Taxpayer Savings and Transaction Accounts made part of
the monetary policy transmission belt and an economy-wide Price Stabilization Fund this book
is critical reading for policymakers and citizens looking for a fresh path forward towards a
revived and sustainable progressive and productive America.
