February 16, 2009 At the first Good Jobs, Green Jobs conference, held in Pittsburgh a year ago, advocates of green energy bemoaned their inability to get a modest renewable-energy tax credit through Congress over the opposition of the Bush administration. The idea of addressing the economic, energy and environmental crises through green jobs seemed… Read More »
BAILING OUT THE PLANET
February 4, 2009 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, & Jeremy Brecher As the rag-tag army of social movement activists, NGO representatives and other advocates from global civil society wend their way home from the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil, and the World Social Forum (WSF), they have reason to believe they have won… Read More »
GLOBAL WARMING AND THE GREAT RECESSION
January 5, 2009 Global warming directly threatens virtually every individual, group, and nation. Climate protection represents the great common necessity for humanity. It is a concern for labor, its allies, and the globalization from below movement. Paradoxically, the slowing economy is reducing the production of greenhouse gases. But it is also leading to cuts in already inadequate… Read More »
GREEN PAPER GOLD
December 9, 2008 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, & Jeremy Brecher; Edited by John Feffer There’s growing support for fighting global economic stagnation and global warming simultaneously with a “green New Deal” nationally and globally. Investing to cut greenhouse gasses can create “green jobs” and provide fiscal stimulus while it is protecting the planet…. Read More »
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