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At the United for Green Schools panel for NYC climate week.

Great story from a Chicago school board member on how there was a resolution passed in June to do 12 green school pilots, creating a revolving fund for new money for these protects.

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

EXTRACTION is hitting the road this fall. Thrilled to be in conversation with @dharna.bsky.social @bentarnoff.com @dwallacewells.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social and others.

Stay tuned for more events in the winter and spring! @wwnorton.com

Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute

‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.

Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/

Will be celebrating the launch of Issue 2 at Climate Week w/ @cmmonwealth.bsky.social

Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more

Tix free but going fast!

Somehow this NYT piece “dissecting” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ‘s schools agenda fully erased the campaign’s detailed plan for green, healthy schools, which can be read in full on the campaign site: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The climate crisis is a catastrophe we cannot afford to ignore, means-test, or isolate as an ​“add-on” to other problems. Workers and tenants across the country understand that, and are advancing green economic populism at home and at work.

So fun to get to dig into it w/ @batul.bsky.social.

Labor and tenant unions can not only win climate objectives as well as economic ones but also build their bases through them.

Chicago's @ctulocal1.bsky.social and Southside Together show us how, as recounted in this piece by @cplusc.bsky.social's @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and @batul.bsky.social.

Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for…

Recommended read: The @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social examined how the focus of New York City mayor frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on lowering the cost of living can serve as a “blueprint” for embedding climate action in everyday life.

📝 @batul.bsky.social

"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...

Zohran Mamdani Is Proposing Green Abundance for the Many The New York City mayoral campaign of Zohran Mamdani is focused on lowering the cost of living. It can serve as a blueprint for progressives seeking to embed climate action in real improvements for wo...

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...

Could this city be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change? Vienna has a way to make affordable housing and combat climate change all at the same time. Now U.S. cities want in, and they're building their own green housing.

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...

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...

New York City Voters Support Municipal Grocery Stores - Climate and Community Institute Read our Substack piece on why municipal grocery stores can bring down costs and repair food supply chains.  The rising cost of groceries has driven nearly 50 …

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices.

"The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."

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:

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Work With Us - Climate and Community Institute Job opportunities at the Climate and Community Institute

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/

Work With Us - Climate & Community Institute There are currently no open positions at Climate & Community Institute.

We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.

Thanks for calling in and pulling this thread together Brad!

Batul Hassan: "War is a defining feature, not a bug, of the extractive economy. We can't decarbonize without demilitarizing. The climate left has begun to take up the fact these military activities are meant to destroy. We need to be transitioning from a war economy to a peace economy."

It was, the recording will go out to registrants soon!

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: CCI webinar: What's Next for the Climate Left?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join Climate and Community Institute (CCI) to discuss the 2024 election and where to go from here to build the power for climate policies that the multiracial working class deserves and will fight for...

So Trump won the election - now what? We at Climate and Community Institute (@cplusc.bsky.social) are going to talk about what this means for climate politics this coming Monday. With: @batul.bsky.social, @williamlawrence.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social

bit.ly/cci2024elect...

We’re asking big questions about what’s needed to build power and policies that create a greener, more just world for all. Honored to be speaking alongside these incredible panelists!

Tuesday 12/9, 4-5pm ET: t.co/GEcz4s0OFI @cplusc.bsky.social

Excited to join this panel reception in DC for “Powerlines: Building a Labor-Climate Justice Movement” alongside incredible renewable energy rank-and-file organizers from across the country! Tonight in-person at 6pm, register here: forms.gle/HpzqKF4afPjS...

Looking forward to moderating this label tonight in DC. Come through in person or on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

NEW with @organizeworkers.bsky.social : Climate Justice at Work! From solar installation to teaching to farming, all workers have a stake in winning cross-industry campaigns for climate safety and action on the job. Join us on Tuesday 4/10 with @jmijin.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/Climate-at-W...

Ceasefire Now, Ceasefire Forever The US Climate Justice movement must support freedom and self-determination for Palestine.

The US climate movement must demand an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Palestine to hold the line against genocide now and the abandonment of vulnerable communities in the future as the climate crisis intensifies. Our new briefing explains why 🧵

I’m here!