We are seeing today what appear to be the beginnings of an ecological revolution, a new historical moment unlike any humanity has experienced. Not only is the planet burning…

The Green New Deal could have the power to take our lives back from the logic of capitalism. Here’s how.

'For the rich, much much less, while for the billions who lack the basics: more good food, better housing, abundant clean water...'

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Climate change demands a much more ambitious plan than the Great Depression did. It even requires reversing some of FDR's successes.

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And Bernie Sanders has a plan for that.

The Democratic presidential candidate is the first to address a solution for climate-induced mass migration.

POWER challenges participants to think about how infrastructure relates to life across a series of intersecting concerns, including democratic governance and climate justice.

If landscape architects want to remake the world, we can start by remaking our discipline.

Party members back Green New Deal motion including nationalisation of big six energy firms

During Climate Week, why not show we can have economic and environmental justice?

We can repair the Earth's ruptured carbon cycle by recarbonizing it with the living carbon of biodiversity.

The support comes as the climate policy fight broadens from energy and transportation to agriculture.

Official Post from Richard Seymour: Climate change is the number one issue at this year's Labour conference. More important than Brexit, motions for a Green New Deal (GND) outnumbered motions on every other subject. When the causes and effects of climate breakdown are escalating, this reflects a proper sense of priorities. The call fo

The Case For Nationalization and Conversion of the Oshawa GM Plant It is a tragic irony that General Motors (GM) chose its hundredth anniversary in Oshawa

Bernie Sanders’s embrace of the New Deal legacy is an opportunity to dispel some pernicious historical myths about the New Deal’s relationship with socialism and its attitude toward the struggle for racial equality.

For just over 10% of a single year's military spending, we could build enough green electricity for every household in the country.

As Greta Thunberg says, “We cannot solve an emergency without treating it like an emergency.” We have to “act as if the house is on fire, because it is.” That does not mean we simply need a New Deal painted green, or a Marshall Plan with solar panels. We need changes of a different quality and character. A new vision of what humanity can be is emerging. It is coming from the streets, from the schools, from workplaces, and even from inside houses of government. When the future of life is at stake, there is nothing we cannot achieve.

This group of environmental justice leaders and national environmental organizations have come together to lay out a shared vision for national climate policy priorities that will benefit everyone, especially the most at-risk communities.

It involves unbuilding our mistakes—and building an equitable, just, and sustainable future.

However a Green New Deal frames guidance on state and local policy, farmland protection must be central—foundational—to its goals and funding priorities.

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