House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might have written it off as the “Green Dream,” but a little less than a year after six presidential hopefuls in the Senate co-sponsored Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s long-shot legislation, one city has decided to turn its own small-scale, local “Green New Deal” into a reality.

In 2018, voters in Portland, Oregon, passed a ballot measure allowing the city to finance the Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund. This fund can now raise cash from a tax on large retailers, defined as corporations earning $1 billion in revenue nationally and half a million dollars locally. It is intended to create “green jobs and healthy homes” and to implement the city’s Climate Action Plan “in a manner that supports social, economic, and environmental benefits for all Portlanders, including the development of a diverse and well-trained workforce and contractor pool in the field of clean energy.”