by BrendanS | Jan 27, 2011 | Politics of Climate Change, post
How Unions Can Help Secure a Binding Global Climate Agreement in 2011 By Sean Sweeney [Editor’s Note: The international trade union movement has given little-heralded but significant support for a deal that protects the earth’s climate while providing a...
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 | Sep 20, 2010 | Politics of Climate Change, post
As the global economy hurtles toward Great Recession II, the earth hurtles toward climate catastrophe. Both represent the results of a neoliberal deregulation that has left humanity no means to shape our economies to serve human needs — not even the need for...
by Ming | Jul 21, 2010 | Politics of Climate Change, post
This month is the anniversary of a long-forgotten landmark in American history, the “Great Upheaval” of July, 1877. It may be surprisingly relevant today. The Great Upheaval was a movement widely portrayed as a violent rebellion. In the midst of a...
by BrendanS | May 1, 2009 | Labor and Climage Action, Politics of Climate Change, post
[Cross-posted with HuffingtonPost.com] Under escalating pressure from activists, Nike, the utility giant Pacific Gas & Electric Company, and others have publicly resigned from the US Chamber of Commerce over its opposition to climate protection policies....
