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Mainstream Green Is Still Too White
by Brentin Mock on April 2 2013, 6:30AM
In Obama’s first term, big environmental groups poured resources into congressional lobbying and corporate connections rather than environmental justice. With climate change back on the legislative table, will history repeat itself?
Topics: Environment
What Hurricane Sandy Should Teach Us About Climate Justice
by Imara Jones on November 15 2012, 9:24AM
Those who can least bear the brunt of climate change are those feeling its consequences most acutely, both in the U.S. and abroad. But both the “climate gap” and climate change are fixable.
Topics: Economy, Environment
How Our ‘Growth’ Obsession Drives Inequity, and May Kill Us All
by Imara Jones on July 31 2012, 9:35AM
The problem starts with the very thing we use to measure prosperity: GDP. The seemingly arcane data point is leading us into darkness.
Topics: Economy, Environment
The Globe’s Not Only Getting Hotter. It’s More Unjust and Unstable, Too
by Michelle Chen on July 6 2011, 9:32AM
Climate change is wreaking havoc on more than the environment. All over the Global South, it’s creating refugees, sparking conflict over resources and justifying repression.
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs, Global Justice
The Cancun Climate Pact Is Not a Victory for Climate Justice
by Michelle Chen on December 13 2010, 11:36AM
Global Justice columnist Michelle Chen says the Mexico deal only looks like progress because expectations are so low.
Topics: Global Justice
Dispatch From Cancun: Developing Paradise in the Suicide Capital
by Roberto Lovato on December 3 2010, 10:06AM
As world leaders gather for climate talks on one side of town, Roberto Lovato visits the other, where the turmoil of climate change threatens hearts and minds, too.
Topics: Dispatches, Environment
Lessons from Cochabamba on Borders, Labels and Justice
by Michelle Chen on April 22 2010, 5:50PM
It’s fitting that migration has been a major focus at the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which brought thousands from all around the world to gather and discuss the racial, socioeconomic and…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs, Immigration
by Rinku Sen on December 16 2009, 1:24PM
Originally published on The Huffington Post Negotiations have resumed in Copenhagen after a walkout by the African delegation on Monday. African governments were concerned with the lack of commitment by rich country governments to reducing their own emissions. This follows…
Topics: Economy, Environment, Global Affairs, News Items, Race and Recession
Shifting Climate, Moving People: Immigration and Climate Justice
by Michelle Chen on December 15 2009, 9:36AM
The impasse in Copenhagen underscores just how interconnected, and perhaps collectively doomed, we all are in the face of global climate change. And like the rapid currents of trade coursing around the globe, environmental destruction is reshaping the flow…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs, Immigration
System Change Not Climate Change
by Debayani Kar on December 14 2009, 1:18PM
Climate justice activists from around the U.S. led by communities of color were part of the 100,000-strong protest march in Copenhagen this past Saturday. Not surprisingly, such a vibrant display of civil society’s power was responded to with more than…
Topics: Global Affairs
All Politics Is Local: Community Solutions for Climate Justice
by Debayani Kar on December 7 2009, 11:00AM
There’s so much to say about the climate change negotiations beginning in Copenhagen, Denmark today, that there is almost nothing left to be said. We have been facing and continue to face a threat to our planet and way of…
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by Michelle Chen on November 19 2009, 7:10AM
Greenpeace has earned a reputation as the quintessential radical environmental group, facing down oil tankers and crusading against nuclear plants. Today, the organization’s new executive director, a veteran of racial justice struggles in Africa, is tipping the group’s focus…
Topics: Environment, Global Affairs
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