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The Three Climate Strikes
The Three Climate Strikes

If Fridays for the Future wants to start winning, they’ll need to reckon with the material bases of power. Drone strikes and civil insurrections in the Global South hold important lessons.

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RK UpadhyaJuly 12, 2020featured Comment
Nothing But Flowers

When it comes to planning our future, most socialists borrow too much from capitalists.

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Paris MarxJuly 4, 2020featuredComment
What Would an Ecosocialist Britain Look Like?

For a truly ecosocialist Britain to emerge, we will need change the way we understand land itself.

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Clare PattersonJune 16, 2020featured Comment
Facing Down Denial: Ideas Towards a Climate Pragmatism

There are lessons to be learned from the methods and language of denial.

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Daniel BaksiJune 12, 2020featuredComment
Book Review: Industrial Strength Denial
Book Review: Industrial Strength Denial

Industrial-Strength Denial author Barbra Freese calls for increased corporate responsibility, but we need to think much bigger if we’re going to survive the climate crisis.

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Emma HermanJune 6, 2020featured Comment
Coronavirus and the Climate Crisis: A Discussion Among Editors
Coronavirus and the Climate Crisis: A Discussion Among Editors

The climate movement can learn lessons from the coronavirus pandemic—especially regarding capitalist elite strategies and our own organizing strategies.

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Editorial BoardMay 5, 2020featuredComment
White Environmentalism and the Corporate University
White Environmentalism and the Corporate University

Universities and corporations are teaming up to solve climate change—and ensure that they can continue to amass power through racial capitalism.

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Roshan KrishnanApril 27, 2020featuredComment
We Need a Basic Income to Future-Proof Society
We Need a Basic Income to Future-Proof Society

Wealth is co-produced by society as a collective, and everyone deserves a share: a safety net not only for workers but our entire planet.

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Olly HaynesApril 20, 2020featuredComment
A Case For Cross-Generational Climate Action

Hope for a better future is not solely on the young; here’s why and how to include older generations in the climate fight.

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Ashley ParsonsApril 12, 2020featuredComment
On Everyday Utopias, Public Imagination, and Breaking the Fossil Fuel Industry: A Review of A Planet to Win.
On Everyday Utopias, Public Imagination, and Breaking the Fossil Fuel Industry: A Review of A Planet to Win.

If Nancy Pelosi calls the Green New Deal a dream, the authors of A Planet to Win are lucid: this is the greatest task of a generation, and a reinvigorated capacity for public imagination is exactly what will help us get there.

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Joal SteinMarch 4, 2020featuredComment
The Promise of Ecological Economics
The Promise of Ecological Economics

Mainstream economics offers no solutions to climate chaos; ecological economics envisions a path forward.

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Aaron KarpFebruary 21, 2020featuredComment
Destructive Creation: A Review
Destructive Creation: A Review

Mining lessons for a Green New Deal from history is a thorny business. A new book on the institutional history of WWII economic mobilization shows us how.

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Johnathan GuyFebruary 5, 2020featured, book review, labor, GND, Editor's picksComment
The Earth-Shaking Potential of Public Banks
The Earth-Shaking Potential of Public Banks

Public banks do not serve to increase the supply of money and capital. They aim to restructure capital at its very core.

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Alexander KolokotronisJanuary 18, 2020featured, Editor's picks Comment
Thrown Together: The New Politics of the Land
Thrown Together: The New Politics of the Land

Social, political and racial divisions are always deeply connected to decisions about how we carve up and treat the land.

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Byron WillistonJanuary 9, 2020land useComment
Warehouse Workers in the Green New Deal Fight: An Interview with Roberto Clack
Warehouse Workers in the Green New Deal Fight: An Interview with Roberto Clack

A longtime labor organizer discusses the power that warehouse and transportation workers could have in disrupting corporate America’s status quo to win a Green New Deal. 

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Amelia DiehlDecember 22, 2019interviewComment
Community Power: How Grassroots Organizing Coalitions Are Democratizing Rural Electricity
Community Power: How Grassroots Organizing Coalitions Are Democratizing Rural Electricity

We sat down with three leaders who are working to enhance energy democracy and make rural electric cooperatives engines of a Green New Deal.

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The TroubleDecember 7, 2019Editor's picksComment
The Case for an Ecosocialist Rank & File Strategy in the Building Trades

In order for the Green New Deal to move forward, it must become a standard demand from organized labor.

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Ryan PollockNovember 28, 2019Editor's picks Comment
Winning Friends, Crushing Enemies: An Interview with Alyssa Battisoni and Thea Riofrancos
Winning Friends, Crushing Enemies: An Interview with Alyssa Battisoni and Thea Riofrancos

The two scholars, writers, and activists review their new book, survey the (literal) battlefield for a Green New Deal, and denounce the idea of scholarship as a substitute for politics.

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Johnathan GuyNovember 12, 2019interviewComment
Towards a Climate Politics of Active Welcoming 

Our imaginary of sustainable community must move beyond defending and nourishing what is already there to embrace what we do not yet have. 

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Olivia RosaneOctober 31, 2019migration, immigration, local, communities, eco-fascism, Editor's picksComment
A Letter to White Climate Organizers
A Letter to White Climate Organizers

To really bring about a political revolution in which something like a Green New Deal can pass—a Green New Deal rooted in policy that will center frontline communities, protect biodiversity and ecosystems, respect indigenous land and sovereignty, and push for sustainable agriculture—we need to mobilize everyone.

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Dejah PowellOctober 24, 2019race, organizing, sunrise, activism, environmental racism, Editor's picksComment
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