Global South Unions Search for a “Public Pathway” Approach to Energy Transition
Several decades ago, unions in the Global South were on the cutting edge of societal struggles for democracy, new forms
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Leaping Backwards: Why is Energy Poverty Rising in Africa?
Photo credit: Budapest-Bamako, Flickr How can the world end energy poverty in the Global South and simultaneously reduce greenhouse gas
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Covid, Climate Change: Is the World Ready for “Global Public Goods”?
Covid-19 has provided a stark reminder that today’s world is both scarred by grotesque levels of inequality and populated by
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Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
Photo credit: aqua.mech, Creative Commons In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be
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Social Democracy or Fortress Democracy? A Twenty-First Century Immigration Plan
In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois observed that “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of
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Why Anyone Concerned about Climate Change Should Support Nuclear Power
Photo credit: David Sizer Though many environmentalists and climate change advocates reject nuclear power, without this reliable source of clean
Read moreBeyond Coal: Why South Africa Should Reform and Rebuild Its Public Utility
Despite 2020’s record fall in carbon dioxide emissions—largely due to extensive and repeated “lockdowns” of cities, plus dramatic decreases in
Read moreIreland’s Energy System: The Historical Case for Hope in Climate Action
For thirty years, governments have been promising climate action. They seem incapable of undertaking the necessary major shifts in their
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Is Care Work Already the Future?
“PROTESTORS ARE ESSENTIAL WORKERS.” Among the multitude of makeshift signs I saw on the Black Lives Matter (BLM) marches of
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Five Years On, the Paris Climate Agreement Needs an Overhaul
Photo credit: John Englart (Takver), Flickr It’s been five years since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed.[1] Negotiated in late
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