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...
by Ming | Jun 16, 2011 | Articles, Just Transition, Politics of Climate Change
[by Brendan Smith and Jeremy Brecher] If you listen to right wing commentators, you might think American progressives are leading the charge to protect our planet from climate change. Would that it were so! All around the country, progressives are fighting to make our...
by BrendanS | Feb 28, 2011 | Just Transition, post
President Barack Obama recently established a Presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He told the first meeting, “The biggest challenge we’re seeing right now is that unemployment is way too high.” He asked them to come up with “some...
by BrendanS | Feb 15, 2011 | Just Transition, Labor-Environmental Cooperation, post
Advocates for sustainability, under assault from climate deniers and drill-baby-drillers, are struggling to protect the earth from global warming, desertification, extinction of plants and animals, and other looming threats. Why should they also be concerned about...
