by Ming | Nov 23, 2010 | Just Transition, Politics of Climate Change, post
[by Brendan Smith; Cross-Posted with HuffingtonPost.com] I am not an environmentalist. But all I think about these days is the climate crisis. I admit I have arrived late to the party. Only recently have I begun to realize what others have known for decades: The...
by Ming | Nov 1, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
[By Brendan Smith and Jim Young, National Education Director at the Blue Green Alliance] Climate change is not a far off threat — the impacts are already being felt in California and they’re going to get steadily worse in the coming decades. For more than...
by Ming | Oct 13, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, Labor and Climage Action, post
Why Climate Change Matters for California Workers [A Discussion Paper by the Labor Network for Sustainability; PDF version with footnotes is available here] California is at the forefront of driving the expansion of the clean energy economy. California’s...
by Ming | Oct 3, 2010 | Jobs and Climate, post
[By Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] The climate denial lobby behind Proposition 23 in California argues they’re fighting to protect jobs by overturning what they like to call California’s “Job Killing Global Warming Law.” But don’t be...
by Ming | Oct 3, 2010 | Just Transition, Labor and Climage Action, post
On 10/10/10 thousands of organizations around the world will be holding a GLOBAL WORK PARTY for the “BIGGEST DAY OF PRACTICAL ACTION TO CUT CARBON THAT THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.” The climate protection movement 350.org is especially encouraging unions and...
by Ming | Sep 29, 2010 | Just Transition, post
By Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher Breakdown at Copenhagen. Climate legislation stalled. EPA regulation of greenhouse gasses threatened. Is climate protection dead? Maybe not. Climate protection has gone local. Political leaders may fiddle while the world burns, but...
