by BrendanS | Nov 21, 2012 | Articles, Just Transition
[by Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith] Do you want your college tuition or tax dollars invested to increase droughts, storms, forest fires, and crop failures — and an unending series of Katrinas and Sandys? Or do you want them used to lower greenhouse gases on...
by BrendanS | Sep 9, 2012 | Just Transition, post, Uncategorized
America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy by James Gustave Speth shows that it’s possible to fix our economy, our environment, and our democracy — and that each goes hand-in-hand with the others. As millions of people in the US and billions around...
by Ming | Mar 12, 2012 | Articles, Just Transition, post
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] These are tough times to be a construction worker in America. While other sectors of the economy are showing signs of life, the unemployment rate in the construction industry is getting worse, not better – rising from 13% to...
by Ming | Feb 2, 2012 | Articles, Just Transition, post
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher; crossposted with Grist] Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline are taking a well-deserved victory lap. The Obama administration’s decision to reject TransCanada’s pipeline proposal “” at least for now “”...
by BrendanS | Jan 9, 2012 | Articles, Just Transition
[Original published in the Atlantic] For decades environmentalists have fought to save our oceans from the perils of overfishing, climate change, and pollution. All noble efforts — but what if environmentalists have it backwards? What if the question is not how...
by Ming | Sep 26, 2011 | Articles, Jobs and Climate, Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action
[Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith] Climate change has arrived in America. What will it mean for your job? Climate change affecting my job? Many people have never even considered the possibility. They have been misled by false assurances like the testimony of Douglas...
