Imagining the American Community Environmental Services: A Vision for Environmentalists and Elders.

In this article, the authors sketch the outlines of a new institutional arrangement intended to promote extensive engagement of older Americans in contributions to their communities throughout the nation. The American Community Environmental Services would deploy large cadres of older people and some younger people, both as employees and as volunteers, in careers devoted to achieving short-and long-term environmental goals. As the authors describe, their plan for adequate attention to the environment, especially climate change, requires the creation of an institution that goes beyond volunteering and rather is based on paid-career environmental jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]