by BrendanS | Mar 6, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, LNS News, Local Organizing, post
While global cooperation is required to address global warming, national governments are so far failing to adopt the necessary agreements and policies. Therefore people and governments have had to take the initiative for protecting the climate by reducing greenhouse...
by BrendanS | Feb 2, 2015 | Articles, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, LNS News, post
The Labor Network for Sustainability today called for environmentalists and other allies of organized labor to support oil refinery workers who went on strike this week. Joe Uehlein, Executive Director of LNS, said, “Oil refinery workers are in the front line of...
by BrendanS | Jan 20, 2015 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Local Organizing, post, Reports
[Like other states, Connecticut has an electric system based on a one-way flow of energy from a central generating stations to consumers — and this model is now obsolete. It is failing to capture new opportunities for distributed renewable energy, and it is...
by BrendanS | Dec 18, 2014 | Articles, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Jeremy Brecher] As the leaders of more than a hundred of the world’s governments addressed the U.N. Climate Summit last week, people’s organizations from around the world convened a Climate Justice Tribunal across from the United Nations to indict political...
by BrendanS | Oct 24, 2014 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, post
[Nurses are asking all Americans to sign a petition demanding protection for frontline health care workers who are protecting us all from the threat of Ebola. Tamanna Rahman and Brendan Smith tell us why.] As the Ebola outbreak continues to dominate headlines, so too...