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It is time to take a lesson from the early pioneers of the just transition and recognize the power that organized labor can wield to fight for environmental, economic and social justice.

States across Europe and East Asia are closing nuclear reactors and replacing much of their electricity-generating capacity with offshore wind energy. Socialists should embrace the growth of this industry — and use green reindustrialization to fight for well-paid, stable jobs.

Analysis: Away from the headlines, there’s an important fight happening that is pitting real estate developers and utilities against efforts to make America’s new homes more climate friendly

Unless we win serious changes now, the worst is yet to come.

Should the ecological left aim to reduce all consumption, or to radically transform the prevalent type of consumption?

This important Ecosocialist Manifesto, published by the Green Left emerges out of Australia in preparation for the forthcoming conference, Ecosocialism

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World shows the gulf between green growth strategies and the transition to a post-capitalist economy

The most popular poster for the Green New Deal reveals startling assumptions. Looking at it as a whole, ignoring the details for now, the poster exhibits a sense of movement. The train is the focal point and duplicates similar depiction of trains, for example, in vintage French posters. These huge machines, emblematic of the Modern More

Governor Newsom knows how to fool some of the people with his most recent symbolic announcement, but we see through the fluff. Here’s the real scoop on his Executive order.

Fossil capital has been granted immense power, producing life-giving heat and light but also plunging communities into darkness when they fail to return outsize profits. In 2011, DTE Energy, the in…

A degrowth society, with its low impact, non-consumerist lifestyles, is seen as largely operating on co-operative and commons principles.

Companies know the U.S. economy’s large exposure to climate threats. Regulators can make them show their cards.

The engineering and land management that enabled the state’s tremendous growth have left it more vulnerable to climate shocks — and those shocks are getting worse.

Canadian Dimension spoke with Max Ajl, an associated researcher at the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, about his critiques of the Green New Deal, its relationship to capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism, and examples of struggles fighting for climate justice, food sovereignty, and self-determination.

Scientists call them a 'deadly trio.' If acidification, oxygen loss, and overheating are not ended soon, a massive die-off of ocean life may be unstoppable.

Two prominent ‘lukewarmers’ take climate science denial to another level, offering tepid manifestos at best

Working In These Times is dedicated to providing independent and incisive coverage of the labor movement and struggles for workers' rights.

Jodi Dean and Kai Heron propose a Climate Lenin approach to dealing with the climate crisis, advocating for a revolutionary party.

The fossil fuel economy is killing Black Americans.

With unpaid bills and energy shutoffs rising during the pandemic, we need to act now to avoid another health emergency.

As the COVID-19 crisis has further highlighted, local, accessible public services are essential for quality of life, from parks to community spaces to public transport.

Can the planet withstand another carbon bomb disguised as an infrastructure package? Billy Fleming reviews "A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal."...

Degrowth stands for quality of life within planetary limits. This is the real opposite of capitalist growth.

Welcome to "Reclaiming the World After Covid-19," the inaugural collection of the Blueprint.

One of the most common misconceptions concerning climate change is that it produces, or even requires, a united humanity.

Now that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and Senator Markey have introduced their nonbinding Green New Deal resolution, the right-wing snowflakes are melting down while respectable centrists are calling the idea “crazy”. On one side, global political and economic elites are doing almost nothing to stop climate change from running out of control, and on the other More

The need for economic planning in any serious and radical process of socio-ecological transition is winning greater acceptance, in contrast to the

Among progressives concerned about climate change, few issues provoke as much anger as the knowledge that governments continue to subsidize fossil fuels. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in 2017 these subsidies totaled $5.2 trillion annually. Don’t governments realize that foss

Author and labor organizer Jane McAlevey on why winning on climate in the 2020 election means changing how we talk about the clean economy.

The long read: For decades, the way we farm has been degrading land and destroying wildlife. Now there’s a revolution coming – but is it going to create more problems than it solves?