by Ming | Apr 25, 2019 | Green New Deal
In an interview about labor’s role in framing the #GreenNewDeal LNS President Joe Uehlein says to Janine Jackson of CounterSpin, “climate change is the real job killer, not the answers to climate change. And we’ve done studies to show that, but, for a lot...
by Ming | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements, Green New Deal
WHEREAS: The recent fires and heavy storm season in Southern California provided another sobering reminder to our communities on how climate change is fundamentally altering our planet and economy; and WHEREAS: The Los Angeles region in particular, and the State of...
by Ming | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements, Green New Deal
Why Labor Should Support the Green New Deal by Nancy Romer, Professor Emerita, Brooklyn College, PSC-CUNY Environmental Justice Working Group The bad news is that we must completely transition from fossil fuels to 100% renewable energy by 2050 and we must achieve most...
by Ming | Mar 30, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements, Green New Deal
In an article for the www.inequality.org LNS’s Research and Policy Director describes the Green New Deal (GND) as a “strategy to counter America’s grotesque and growing inequality.” “While the Green New Deal [GND] is often portrayed as a program for climate...
by Ming | Feb 27, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
“The Green New Deal projects a broad vision of creating a climate-safe America through an economic and social mobilization on a scale not seen since the New Deal and World War II. That mobilization can provide a historic opportunity to create millions of good,...
by Ming | Feb 27, 2019 | Articles, GND Labor Endorsements Top, Green New Deal
by Michael Leon Guerrero, LNS Executive Director Here at the Labor Network for Sustainability we are very excited about the the Green New Deal (GND). The resolution introduced in Congress by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey in the Senate has already sparked...
