Sharon Adetoro: How to Make the Movement More Inclusive? Do the Work!
The Environmental movement is heavily white and middle class. Both of which we are not. There is an uncomfortableness about entering that space.
Act: Inspiration
How Libraries of Things Build Resilience, Fight Climate Change, and Bring Communities Together
Libraries of Things are both starting to expand to multiple locations, and also connecting with other similar or complementary organizations to form local and regional networks.
Maxfield Kaniger’s Kanbe’s Markets: A Piece for the Food Insecurity Puzzle
On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Executive Director of Kanbe’s Markets Maxfield Kaniger talks about the market’s model to reduce food waste and food insecurity.
The World’s Happiest People already Have a Green New Deal, and they Love it
According to the latest report from the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network, the Nordics are once again in the top tier of the World’s Happiest People.
American Conservatism, and the Socialist Specter which Haunts it Still
Socialism is the bogeyman that conservatives of all stripes find easy to associate with all that distorts or corrupts those thinks they, in theory at least, hold most dear: namely, civil society, and the goods which social interactions in and through one’s community, church, and family make possible.
The German Edition of Our Book — Free, Fair and Alive — is Launched!
Our new framework – the Triad of Commoning — focuses on the commons in three interrelated aspects – the social, the political (peer governance), and the economic (provisioning).
Why a Green New Deal needs a Deep Green Movement
As two social justice activists, the narrative around movement-led political action is heartening. It opens up the opportunity to practice intersectional policy making that has been central to racial justice movements for decades.
From Oil Crisis to Energy Revolution – How Nations Once Before Planned to Kick the Oil Habit
As the world now gets to grips with the realities of making a rapid transition away from fossil fuels in the next decade, is it time to look again at how quickly we moved back in the 1970s, when we had to?
The Road of Social Development and Solidarity with the Poor
The road from the reality of poverty to the solidarity economy is not opened by the poor alone in their efforts to address their needs and problems.
How Tribes Are Harnessing Cutting-Edge Data to Plan for Climate Change
The tribes in the Pacific Northwest are leaders in climate adaptation and have mounted multifaceted responses to the threats they face, Krosby said. CIG’s tailored, state-of-the-art climate data further provide resources and data at a level of detail not yet available to most cities around the country.
Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
Community or shared solar is broadly defined as a project where multiple participants own or lease shares in a mid-sized solar facility usually between 500 kilowatts and 5 megawatts, and receive credits that lower their monthly utility bills based on how much power the facility delivers to the grid.
A New Chance for Climate Justice?
To truly step up to the plate and play their part in a resurgent, ecologically-minded global justice movement, groups in the North will have to put meat on the bones of the system change slogan by articulating clear alternatives.
