The Promise of the Green New Deal
In my view, the most glaring omission in the GND is its lack of any challenge to consumerism and our current obsession with economic growth.
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The Green New Deal: A Strategy for a More Equal United States
The Green New Deal resolution outlines a vision of what we need to do to address the dual crises of climate change and runaway inequality. What policies and programs could help us realize that vision?
Rebuilding Indigenous Economies and Remembering How to Creatively Thrive
With creative determination and relationship building, we can model the systemic transformation of trade and economy from one based on the exploitation of our ecological and human relations, towards one based on care, reciprocity, and the regeneration of life. And it is happening!
How a Cooperative Approach to Property Management can Build Collective Power
The Community Land Trust (CLT) is an established and successful model for the creation of democratically governed permanently affordable housing, and most urgently in the face of the crisis, a tool to prevent the displacement of historic communities. T
How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal is Being Built
Drummer realized the Green New Deal was the “best tangible, concrete expression of the kind of economics and politics that we were fighting for and trying to develop.”
In an Era of Brutal Cuts, One Ordinary Place has the Imagination to Fight Back
And for those desperate to preserve a spark of hope in a political system that feels so hopeless, let me suggest this: watch Preston.
Well-being: A Latin American Response to the Socio-Ecological Crisis
Instead of proposing new “sustainable” or green-washed development frameworks, it seems necessary to propose new alternatives to the concept of development itself.
A Green New Deal Must Not Be Tied to Economic Growth
The lower the level of energy use, and the smaller the economy, the easier it is to decarbonize, and the fewer impacts that will be caused along the way. There is no reason for someone concerned with climate and the environment to advocate economic growth.
Spanish Cities Make the Case for How Cooperatives Can Address Urban Ills
Whether it is growing congestion due to ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft, rising housing costs due to Airbnb, or increasing agitation from gig workers being forced to work longer hours for less pay, cities are at the forefront of the battle to control the exploitative platform economy.
Better Work Together: Reflections from a Nascent Movement
There is a movement on the rise that it is leveraging the power of community, networks, and participation to work on systemic challenges.
Climate Breakdown is Coming. The UK needs a Greener New Deal
Our obsession with economic growth is making our task much more difficult than it needs to be. It’s like we’ve chosen to fight this battle facing uphill, with one hand tied behind our back.
What Kind of a Green Deal? The Implications of Material and Monetary Flows
An ecologically feasible Green Deal would involve resource and energy caps, at source, effectively the equitable rationing of commodities (goods and services). Doing this would also incentivise the transition to less ecologically and resource intense offerings across the market, so long as emitting activities are not thereby driven underground.
