A Handout for Uber and Lyft Is No Replacement for Public Transit
Transportation network services have resisted regulations on workers’ rights, traffic safety, and the environment. The public shouldn’t subsidize them.
Environment
The Green New Deal: A Strategy for a More Equal United States
A Labor Network for Sustainability activist lays out how mobilizing to protect our planet could help us build an economy that works for all working people.
Climate-Striking Young People Get Climate Change. Why Can’t Their Elders?
In deeply unequal societies, the rich and powerful never feel the environmental pain.
The Teen Climate Activist Speaking Truth to Davos
"I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act."
Democratic Leaders Failed Their First Big Test on Climate
Kicking the can down the road appears to be a bipartisan sport in Washington.
Can an Unequal Earth Beat Climate Change?
Some 250 million years ago, life on Earth survived an existential climate crisis. But that Earth had a distinct advantage. No rich.
Green New Deal? Bring It! But Don’t Forget Your Union Card.
To be truly transformational, any bold green jobs proposal must be rooted in the right to organize.
Want to Save the Climate? Break Up the Big Banks
Despite regularly claiming new commitments to ‘green finance,’ the big banks continue to lend billions to the fossil fuel industry every year.
Confronting Climate Change in a Deeply Unequal World
The global reaction to two landmark new reports suggests the world could well lose that confrontation.