; (7) improving energy efficiency and resource conservation; and (8) building and maintaining alternative transportation and sustainable infrastructure; Whereas the United States urgently needs to transition to more sustainable infrastructure, respond to decades of deferred maintenance on public lands and waters, restore critical ecosystems, and make communities more resilient to climate change; Whereas unemployment and barriers to opportunity affect millions of young people in the United States and disproportionately affect young people of color; and Whereas the existing network of more than 150 Service and Conservation Corps is ready to meet the needs of young people in the United States: Now, therefore, be it