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The View from the Other Side of the Negotiating Table

A climate activist turned City Hall staffer reflects on missteps from his organizing days, decision-maker psychology, and lessons for effective advocacy.

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AnonymousAugust 9, 2018Policy & Institutions Comment
At Emergency Speed

The volunteers at The Climate Mobilization have distinguished themselves as a different kind of climate activist. But will their strategy work?

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Claudia FernandezAugust 8, 2018Organizing & Activism Comment
The Democrats, Markets, and Climate Change

The Democratic Party’s commitment to capitalism categorically prevents it from being an ally to the environmental movement in any instance.

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Alex BartiromoJuly 27, 2018Policy & InstitutionsComment
The Best Argument for a Climate Jobs Bill

The most underlooked feature of post-2020 legislation is how it will affect our capacity to build power.

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Johnathan GuyJuly 24, 2018Policy & InstitutionsComment
Bringing Providence Back In: Religious Thought and the Climate Left

Theology can and should contribute to our conceptual architecture of climate change.

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Alexander PeltzJuly 19, 2018Messaging & Rhetoric Comments
Moves and Countermoves: China Trades Climate for Cheap Solar

Trump’s solar tariffs escalate a brewing trade war, with Chinese residential solar and blue collar labor caught in the balance.

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Ishana RatanJuly 10, 2018Policy & InstitutionsComment
Pruitt Is Gone, But His Policies To Stay At EPA

Scott Pruitt has been pushed out as head of the EPA. In executive branch oustings like this, though, policy matters far more than personality.

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Sam ZacherJuly 9, 2018Policy & InstitutionsComment
Stop Telling Your Friends to Recycle

Building a culture of political engagement is crucial to the climate fight. Focusing on private, consumer-based progressivism isn’t.

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The TroubleJuly 5, 2018Messaging & Rhetoric, M&R Show Comments
Solar Tariffs: An Unlikely Opportunity for Worker Mobilization in Trump’s America

An Administration’s misguided protectionist policy, transformed into an opportunity for leftist collective mobilization.

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Ishana RatanJuly 4, 2018Organizing & Activism Comment
Why Has the US Failed on Climate Policy?

Many conditions and trends in the US political system have left us with the intensely anti-climate Republican Party, the blockage to progress on climate policy.

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Sam ZacherJuly 4, 2018Policy & InstitutionsComment
"So, Just How Fucked Are We?" Part One: The Language Politics of Apocalypse

We might blow past two degrees. Millions of people will continue to die. That doesn't change the way forward.

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Johnathan GuyJuly 4, 2018JHFAW, Messaging & RhetoricComment
"So, Just How Fucked Are We?" Part Two: Stop Talking About the Weather

Current climate discourse hinders the moralism we need.

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Johnathan GuyJuly 4, 2018JHFAW, Messaging & Rhetoric, M&R Show Comment
"So, Just How Fucked Are We?" Part Three: Building a Climate Moralism

Activating the public means making climate injustice personal.

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Johnathan GuyJuly 4, 2018JHFAW, Messaging & RhetoricComment
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