economic justice
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Residents fight for economic and environmental justice in one Illinois town
It’s pretty much impossible to fight for clean air and water without tackling income equality.
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Building better cities so people can have better lives
Some very smart people got together for a Ford Foundation forum on "The Just City." What did they say?
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Mythbusting: Cheap food does not equal higher quality of life
Does our cheap food system bring us higher quality of life than other countries? A food industry flack believes so, but facts suggest otherwise. And I'm starting to think that we can't really reform the food system until we reform the economy.
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Environmentalists Need to Reclaim Economics
My book entitled, What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics, comes out this week. The aim is simple: to show in a concise and clear manner why economic reasoning and analysis is crucial for solving the world’s major environmental problems. But there is a subtext: environmentalists have often been wary of economics and dismissed economic […]
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The rich people in the Senate defend the interests of rich people
Why won't senators act on what the public wants? Politicians are overwhelmingly responsive to the minority of Americans who have lots of money.
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Good news for deepwater-oil junkies
We’ve all heard that we’re addicted to oil. But in the wake of the BP spill we might do well to take the oil-as-a-drug metaphor a little more seriously. For starters we need to understand that deepwater oil is the really bad stuff, the petrochemical heroin – high risk, costly, deadly. Sooner or later we […]
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Is the ‘climate debt’ discussion helpful?
I’m intrigued by this notion of “climate debt,” but before I get into it I want to make one thing clear: the transfer of substantial resources from rich to poor countries is necessary for a successful international treaty. It’s necessary for a successful attempt to address global climate change. Nothing below is meant to suggest […]
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Bingaman hearing on pollution allowance allocation; progressive greens beware
When Kerry and Boxer introduced their clean energy bill earlier this month, it contained a huge gap: it said almost nothing about the allocation of pollution allowances under the cap-and-tr… er, pollution reduction and investment program. The reason for the omission is simple: Doling out what is effectively a huge new pot of money is […]
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EPA: Waxman-Markey will lower electricity bills
The main argument conservatives and big oil and coal companies use against the American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is that it would cripple American households with a crushing energy tax. To make that claim, they have distorted cost estimates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and conducted their own biased studies. Today, […]