In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

An exciting panel event launching our collaboration with @cplusc.bsky.social — the Transition Security Project. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social Sign up for a free ticket below👇 📍 Online 🗓️ 16 Oct 6PM BST

The idea that insurance premiums are a good way to mitigate climate risk to housing is a common misconception that, unfortunately, can obscure real solutions to the risks of climate change and perpetuate existing inequities. Why is that? Well... 1/8

Are you going to Netroots? Join us TOMORROW, 3:45-4:45 PM for “Building Green Economic Populism,” moderated by @maryannaise.bsky.social with PA State Sen. @nikilsaval.bsky.social, @ctulocal1.bsky.social's Stacy Davis Gates, Tenant Union Federation's Tara Raghuveer, and CCI's @jbozuwa.bsky.social

What’s the best way to spend $1 billion for transportation? Our latest report shows the positive impacts of every $1 billion shifted from highways to transit and identifies key policy levers to shift transportation investments away from highway spending. climateandcommunity.org/research/let...

The US Deptartment of Defense budget is set to rise to $1tn. New analysis by @cplusc.bsky.social shows that this will push the Pentagon’s total greenhouse emissions to a staggering 178 Mt of CO2e, resulting in an estimated $47bn in economic damages globally. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bravo to @theguardian.com's @ninalakhani.bsky.social for highlighting @cplusc.bsky.social research exposing the climate madness of the US military budget amid cuts to weather and emergency services. Journalists wanting to follow up can contact @CoveringClimate...

NEW: Our study in @theguardian.com shows that the new $1T Pentagon budget in Trump’s bill— paid for by cuts to education, food stamps, disaster management, etc—will raise its carbon emissions higher than the entire country of Ethiopia, and cause 47B in damages. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Climate is a multiplier of the cost of living crisis,” points out @jbozuwa.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social. “We actually can build an alternative — in state rent control, green affordable housing. It’s not a climate movement, it’s a working class movement of which climate is a part.”

NEW: Our study in @theguardian.com shows that the new $1T Pentagon budget in Trump’s bill— paid for by cuts to education, food stamps, disaster management, etc—will raise its carbon emissions higher than the entire country of Ethiopia, and cause 47B in damages. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The 17% rise in US pentagon spending since 2023 will result in an additional 26,000,000 tons of Co2 emissions. These emissions will cause ~$47 billion in damages when the US is already spending $1 trillion/year on disaster recovery. Our new @cplusc.bsky.social research covered in @theguardian.com

By me: Trump’s spending bonanza for the Pentagon will produce an additional 26 megatons of planet-heating gases – on a par with the annual emissions generated by 68 gas power plants or the entire country of Croatia, new analysis by @cplusc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Affordable housing is a national political issue, but policymakers lack a supply-side agenda that meets the scale & urgency of the housing and climate crises. In our new brief, we call for a different approach: a green industrial policy for housing. climateandcommunity.org/research/tra...

The rent's too high, it's too hot, and no one's getting the glorious green homes we keep hearing about. The market is broken. In our latest @cplusc.bsky.social report, we show how green industrial policy could deliver affordable, green homes for all. climateandcommunity.org/research/tra...

It's crazy that this isn't already a leading policy framework. We can't increase the supply of green homes—new units, green upgrades—without building policy & coalitions around producing key inputs, coordinating policies, procurement. This is 1st essay in a @cplusc.bsky.social series on this.

NEW: Join us next week for the 2nd Annual Wallace Symposium! Climate speakers include: 🎙️ @basavsen.bsky.social, IPS 🎙️ @ben-beachy.bsky.social, GFNE 🎙️ @aru-shiney-ajay.bsky.social, @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social 🎙️ @jbozuwa.bsky.social, @cplusc.bsky.social FREE tickets: action.ips-dc.org/a/%202nd-hen...

The 'Big Beautiful Bill' is set to push the US Dept of Defense budget towards a record $1 trillion. According to @cplusc.bsky.social, this will make US military and its industrial apparatus the 38th largest emitter in the world. Read more here: climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/1-trillion...

Nearly half of Vienna's population lives in public housing. Our hidden gem of the week examines how the city's social housing offers a compelling counter-narrative to the neoliberal housing crisis. By @aldasky.bsky.social, @ruthygourevitch.bsky at @cplusc.bsky.social‬ buff.ly/EJ9WRO2

This month's Popular Solutions newsletter is live! A collab between @cplusc.bsky.social and @dataforprogress.org you won't want to miss: dataforclimateprogress.substack.com/p/the-climat...

"Mamdani's campaign has put forth a transformative, green vision of a city that works for the 99%—one that takes on the existential threat of the climate crisis through kitchen-table proposals to improve working peoples’ daily lives + take back power from the richest 1%" jacobin.com/2025/06/mamd...

The Mamdani campaign offers a blueprint for the climate left: the path to full decarbonization must run through working class demands for affordability and quality-of-life jacobin.com/2025/06/mamd...

"The Mamdani campaign’s focus on lowering the cost of living should serve as a blueprint for progressives across the country seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for working peoples’ lives." My colleague @batul.bsky.social in @jacobinmag.bsky.social this morning.

Vienna is the global capital of social housing, and is regularly ranked as the world's most livable city. Our new report, featured in this @npr.org exclusive, explores Vienna’s green social housing—home to the majority of its renters—and how it can work here. www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

To avert the worst effects of the climate crisis, we must transition away from fossil fuels. How can we unite the climate justice and labor movements to make large-scale change happen? Join @jmijin.bsky.social next week, 6/25 at 6 ET to learn how! www.eventbrite.com/e/building-c...

Across the USA, the rent is too damn high. To meet the scale of the housing crisis we need to get creative with ownership, finance, and political coalitions. @cplusc.bsky.social new report explores Vienna’s social housing model and shows it lowers rents, reduces emissions + urban inequality

Vienna is the global capital of social housing, and is regularly ranked as the world's most livable city. Our new report, featured in this @npr.org exclusive, explores Vienna’s green social housing—home to the majority of its renters—and how it can work here. www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

Our latest Popular Solutions newsletter is live! Check it out and subscribe for monthly snapshots of the widespread demand and pathways forward for climate action from @dataforprogress.org and @cplusc.bsky.social: dataforclimateprogress.substack.com/p/voters-are...

the recording of today’s episode of THE RIFT on WEFT, a conversation with @pmbigger.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social on global finance and ecological justice, is now online: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

it's always weird to say 'i had a great time' when talking about the grim realities of present, but I did have a great time talking with @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social about the Global South debt, climate, and ecological crisis, + how a reparative approach differs from the current direction of travel

I spoke with Dustin Mulvaney about losing two grants studying Moss Landing, and who gets hurt:

I’m thrilled to talk w the brilliant @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social about her new book, No Straight Road Takes You There. (Were truer words ever spoken?!) This Wednesday, come hang out w us! www.eventbrite.com/e/rebecca-so...

We're in an energy crisis, and millions of people can't even afford the utilities they need to survive storms, heatwaves, and freezes. Read CCI fellow @sevier.io and Energy+Industrial Systems Policy Manager Winston Yau on how public power can deliver lower costs and cleaner energy.

Converting unused public school property to green social housing can offer a range of benefits—from stemming enrollment drops to stabilizing teacher workforces to reducing building emissions. Join us to learn from organizers & experts taking up these campaigns: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The summer of shutoffs is here. The left’s answer must advance climate, affordability, and managed decline together. "Public power can begin to build us out of this deep contradiction between the well-being of Americans and the deregulated system." @sevier.io with Winston Yau @cplusc.bsky.social:

How is home insurance both a cost of living + climate issue? Read Housing Director @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and fellow @moira.bsky.social explain how home insurance works, why rising rates are driven by disasters, and how to fix the system. climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/the-home-i...

The multisolving potential of public grocery stores is enormous. From food security and affordability to climate mitigation and resilience this could be transformational --and people support it!

New from @cplusc.bsky.social , @ccj-ubc.bsky.social & @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social : we ran focus groups with biodiversity & international economic experts; everyone agrees that big reforms to the global economy are needed to stem the loss of biodiversity. But agreement on how to do it is elusive.

Despite a federal government hostile to climate and housing progress, tenants are creating a blueprint for how to organize effectively amid the climate crisis and win safer and more affordable homes. Read @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social to learn how: shelterforce.org/2025/04/04/t...

V predictable that the admin would weaponize the language of active management to authorize new clear cuts and curtail environmental review; yes, there is too much flammable material on public lands; no, we don't fix that with clear cutting and converting USFS staff into wholesale wood merchants

Municipal grocery stores can bring down bills for working class households while supporting high quality, stable, affordable food supply chains in a warming world. Our new work with @dataforprogress.org shows that people want public options. climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/its-time-f...

Last night, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was taken by ICE in Washington State, where he has lived, worked, and organized as a farmworker since he was 14, on his way to take his partner to work. Take action against this attack on farmworker leadership now: bsky.app/profile/food...

Saturday night in Charm City! After our last attempt to talk about Sandeep's book was snowed out, we're going to be talking Democracy in Power at @redemmas.org. Why not go have a nice dinner then have a drink with us and learn about the past, present, and future of energy democracy in the USA?

Our Substack is up! In our 1st post, Remaking the State for Green Economic Populism, we look at the urgent need for a transformative approach to climate action that centers economic justice and solidarity- but we can't get there without a functional administrative state substack.com/home/post/p-...

@cplusc.bsky.social's new substack just launched! @jbozuwa.bsky.social and I argue for green economic populism to remake the state + win the changes that workers and communities need to thrive while avoiding the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Spoiler: we don't get there by gutting the state.

On lithium: "There [need not be a] zero-sum tradeoff between zero emissions transportation and protecting biodiversity and Indigenous rights … It is possible to have more mobility and less mining while making rapid progress to zero emissions." shorturl.at/pa7HE. Thanks @cplusc.bsky.social!

If you're going to be at AAG in Detroit, join us and @blackgeographies.bsky.social for Happy Hour on Tuesday at the Elephant Room from 6-8, right after the BGSG keynote! Drink tickets available while they last!

New from my team: for the same volume of energy transition minerals it would take to make all of the Pentagon's non-combat vehicles into EVs, we could electrify the entire Postal Service, the entire Parks Service, and put battery backup on more than 7600 federal buildings. 🧵

Applications for the 2025 @cplusc.bsky.social junior fellowship are open until Monday, March 3. All current grad students interested in researching the climate/economy nexus this summer should apply. Come work with us! climateandcommunity.org/careers/

NEW: Insurers are hiking rates, shrinking protections, and refusing coverage while disasters increase nationwide. 2 decades after Hurricane Katrina, average premium rates in Louisiana are 8th highest in the US. New analysis by us shows how bad its become: climateandcommunity.org/research/sha...