Water helps restore and cool the land. It’s one more natural element we have plundered and need to reclaim.
Energy & the Environment
Posted inGreen New Deal
The Green New Deal as Economic Development
It can create millions of jobs. It can compensate old-economy workers who lose theirs. It can rebuild America.
Posted inGreen New Deal
A Green New Deal for Oakland
How a progressive climate vision might help my hometown
Posted inGreen New Deal
The Global Challenge of Decarbonization
From Kenya to Sweden, from Britain to China, countries have made progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Posted inGreen New Deal
The Role of Public Capital
A Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the 21st century
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Battle in Seattle
A look back at the origins of the 21st-century left
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Vivint Solar Internal Training Video Promotes Practices Alleged as Deceptive
The loan training video also appears to conflict with the solar company’s ethics policies.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Battle of Seattle at 20
The legendary protests of the World Trade Organization in 1999 can serve as a model for a deeply needed labor/environmental coalition for climate justice.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Flummoxed! Asked About Infrastructure, Larry Kudlow Pleads Ignorance
The president’s chief economic adviser comes up short in remarks to infrastructure leaders in Washington.
Posted inAmerica and the World
The Biggest Rogue States of the Climate Crisis
China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia have come in well behind the greenhouse gas emissions goals the world needs to stave off the worst effects of a warming planet.
