REGENERATIVE ENERGY SYSTEMS Key Principles: Renewable (source), De-commodified (use v. exchange), Sustainable (eco-focused), Resilient (distributed), Shared (commons/ownership) Category Data Source Extractive (0) Transactional (1) Transitional (2) Energy Democracy (3) Renewable Energy Generation System Ask to see your City’s Energy Portfolio Achieved by buying and selling RECs, control maintained by utilities 80% of renewable energy on grid is through RECs, with …
Jason Hickel: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions
Today, some 4.3 billion people — more than 60 percent of the world’s population — live in debilitating poverty, struggling to survive on less than the equivalent of $5 per day (which is the mean average of all the national poverty lines in the Global South). Half do not have access to enough food. And these numbers have been growing …
Universal Basic Income is Coming and It’s Long Overdue
Universal Basic Income is Coming and It’s Long Overdue, CityLab, 2018 Universal Basic Income (UBI) has long been talked about as a way to address income inequality, but there’s a solution that directly stimulates employment: Universal Basic Mobility (UBM), by simply getting people to jobs.In areas where commutes are long, it’s hard for children to escape poverty, and in many cities, areas …
Kids suffering from air pollution: 40 percent of the burden of environmentally related disease and about 90 percent of the burden of climate change is borne by children under five, although that age group constitutes only 10 percent of the global population
A new study led by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health (CCCEH) organizes the available scientific evidence on the effects of air pollution on children’s health. The paper in the journal Environmental Research is the first comprehensive review of the associations between various fossil fuel combustion pollutants and multiple health effects in children in the context of …
New progressive candidates aren’t afraid to talk about the intersections of climate and injustice
New faces like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Summer Lee aren’t afraid to talk about environmental justice. E.A. CRUNDEN AUG 27, 2018, ClimateProgress CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES, RASHIDATLAIBFORCONGRESS.COM / EDIT BY DIANA OFOSU When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseated incumbent Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley in the primary for New York City’s 14th congressional district, she did so while running on a progressive platform centering …
“Today, many researchers are concluding that ecological systems around the planet will not be able to tolerate temperature rise much beyond 1.5C”
Avoiding the climate failsafe point “Although models of climate and vegetation change are greatly improving, they remain far from perfect,” write academics Lovejoy and Hannah in an editorial for the journal Science Advances. “For example, on the one hand, recent modelling studies indicate that limiting temperature increase to 1.5C will greatly reduce the impact on the ranges of insect, vertebrate, …
Judge: Atlantic Coast pipeline failed to assess the health impacts the project would have on minorities, as required under federal law.
By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News, May 18, 2018 A federal court has invalidated a key permit for the Atlantic Coast pipeline project that would carry natural gas from West Virginia to North Carolina. Now civil rights advocates are working to build their environmental justice case in hopes of further stymying the project. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images A federal court has invalidated a …
The meaning of home or ‘hogar’
Download “The Meaning of Home” handout in English (PDF) Download “El significado de ‘hogar’” en español (PDF) ECO MEANS HOME : ‘ECO’ COMES FROM THE GREEK WORD OIKOS, MEANING ‘HOME’ ECO SYSTEM (“home” + “system”) Ecosystem means all the relationships in a home – from microorganisms, plants, animals and people to water, soil and air. An Ecosystem includes the terrain and …
11% of Colorado residents spend 10 to 15 percent of their income on energy, but energy retrofits and PV panels could help a lot
By Dan Gearino, InsideClimateNews The state’s energy assistance programs are solving two challenges at once: help people save money on electricity bills while expanding renewable energy. JUL 2, 2018 Low-income households in Colorado are getting a new question during visits from energy assistance agencies: Have you considered solar panels? It’s an innovative approach to solving two challenges at once: reducing greenhouse gas …
How Kids and Families Pay the Real Cost of Health Inequality When families can’t take paid time off to care for a sick child, the social costs can be overwhelming
By Michelle Chen in the Nation, May 2018 When you’re too sick to go to work, you shouldn’t be punished for taking time to recover. That simple truth has driven many cities to enact paid leave policies in recent years, guaranteeing paid sick days, or some kind of paid medical- and family-leave time, as standard workplace policy. But those vital policies are still not …