Sustainability

Coal power plant

The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need The Policy Weapon Climate Activists Need

Government can save the climate from burning the same way it saved the economy from depression: Buy out the companies behind the crisis.

Apr 26, 2017 / Gar Alperovitz, Joe Guinan, and Thomas M. Hanna

As We Approach the Peoples Climate March, Here Are Six Ways to Fight to Save the Planet

As We Approach the Peoples Climate March, Here Are Six Ways to Fight to Save the Planet As We Approach the Peoples Climate March, Here Are Six Ways to Fight to Save the Planet

The stakes are higher than ever before.

Apr 21, 2017 / no-paywall / Brandon Jordan

Trump Is Alt-Wrong

Trump Is Alt-Wrong Trump Is Alt-Wrong

ignore this…

Mar 30, 2017 / Comix Nation / Peter Kuper

Why Trump’s Climate-Wrecking Agenda Could Fail

Why Trump’s Climate-Wrecking Agenda Could Fail Why Trump’s Climate-Wrecking Agenda Could Fail

Activists as well as local and state governments are fighting back—but global energy markets could be his most powerful opponents.

Mar 29, 2017 / Editorial / Mark Hertsgaard

Rex Tillerson hearing

Get Ready for Trump’s Climate-Denial Offensive Get Ready for Trump’s Climate-Denial Offensive

If Trump continues his assault on common sense about climate change, America is going to lose—and lose big.

Mar 7, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

Greenhouse Gases

Progressives Need to Get Over Themselves and Support This GOP-Backed Carbon-Tax Plan Progressives Need to Get Over Themselves and Support This GOP-Backed Carbon-Tax Plan

Purist objections scuttled Washington State’s market-friendly carbon tax plan in November. Let’s not let that happen at the national level.

Feb 14, 2017 / Blog / Charles Komanoff

McDonald's Minimum Wage Protest

The Industry Where Black Women Earn 42 Cents for Every Dollar Earned by a White Man The Industry Where Black Women Earn 42 Cents for Every Dollar Earned by a White Man

Organizing within the food-supply chain is only going to get more important under a Trump presidency.

Dec 27, 2016 / Michelle Chen

Guatemala Water March

The Alliance for Prosperity Will Intensify the Central American Refugee Crisis The Alliance for Prosperity Will Intensify the Central American Refugee Crisis

Conceived without the participation of civil-society groups, the chief goal is to advance elite US and Northern Triangle business interests.

Dec 21, 2016 / Dawn Paley

Traffic in Berkeley

Here’s How States and Cities Can Fight Climate Change and Inequality in the Trump Era Here’s How States and Cities Can Fight Climate Change and Inequality in the Trump Era

Let’s make polluters pay for carbon reduction and invest the revenue in disadvantaged communities.

Dec 1, 2016 / Blog / Heather McGhee and Robert B. Reich

Utah Protesters

‘All Resistance Is Local’: A Plan of Progressive Action for the Trump Years ‘All Resistance Is Local’: A Plan of Progressive Action for the Trump Years

Here’s how states and cities can lead the fight against the Trump administration—and build a new political order.

Nov 29, 2016 / That’s Debatable / Heather Gerken, David Bollier, Gary Gerstle, and Gar Alperovitz

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