In this interview, conducted November 22, 2019, activists Ragina Johnson and Brian Ward continue a discussion with Dina Gilio-Whitaker that began in Science for the Peopleʼs “Science Under Occupation” issue (Volume 23, no. 1, spring 2020)...
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The Green New Deal (GND) is the American government’s most compendious response to the existential threat of the climate crisis. At its core is the idea of a just transition. This term first emerged in labor movements in the 1970s as a...
We are tumbling from a global pandemic into what could become an economic depression, all this while the climate crisis relentlessly unfolds in the shadow of the media. The need for meaningful and sincere answers on how to address these...
On April 26, 1986, one of the reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded, scattering highly radioactive materials into the surroundings. More radioactive effluent was expelled by the fire ignited by the explosion...
It is estimated that more than a billion animals burned to death in the bushfires that raged throughout Australia at the beginning of this decade. The end of the last decade was not merciful either; fires in the Amazon rainforest, the...
Is Jeff Gibbs's Planet of the Humans any more than "white dude doom porn"? What lessons can the green left take from its failings?
As the Green New Deal prompts discussions about investments in clean energy infrastructure and workforce, workers are fighting for rights in a changing climate. Many workers are serving their communities through increasingly difficult...
Una nueva generación de pensadores progresistas, desde los Demócratas de centro-izquierda hasta los socialistas comprometidos, está proponiendo legislación federal para una transición económica radical que se aleje de los combustibles...
A new generation of progressive thinkers, from slightly left-of-center Democrats to committed socialists, is proposing federal legislation for a sweeping economic transition away from fossil fuels. Termed the Green New Deal (GND), this...
A group of workers at a government sustainability agency are trying to form a union. Like other similar organizations at the state and municipal level, the agency’s mission is to promote renewable energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions...