“What we did in this resolution is to lay out what should happen … in every sector of the American economy. Because they can all be transformed with new technologies, with new strategies, new conservation techniques, and in a very brief period of time.”
A CHARLIE HORSE FROM BAKER DOWN IN WEYMOUTH
It’s time to call the governor out for being a shameless business-assist monkey right now, because later’s always too damn late.
HOUSING. SURELY WE CAN DO BETTER.
As someone who has lived in the Boston area for the past two decades and often searched for affordable housing, the news that the Boston Housing Authority is “teaming up” with private-sector developers to maintain and upgrade its housing stock left me with mixed emotions. “Yet another stealth rollback!” I murmured to no one […]
SPECIAL FEATURE: THE MOST DANGEROUS SQUARE MILE
The centuries-long relationship with Boston that made Chelsea a frontline community for environmental justice …
BOSTON’S CLIMATE STRIKE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Gov Baker has failed to lead on climate change, so it’s time for him to come face to face with the climate catastrophes around the state he is ignoring.
WEYMOUTH ACTIVISTS CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
Against all odds, a dogged group of Fore River Basin residents decided to put up a fight, the ferocity of which Enbridge never saw coming.
INTRODUCTION: OUR SPECIAL CLIMATE CRISIS ISSUE
Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a single coverage topic.
WALLIS ON DEMOCRACY AND ECOSOCIALISM: TWO URGENT BOOKS FOR A WORLD COMING UNHINGED
The labor and ecological movements must converge, Wallis argues, despite a fraught history pitting “Jobs” against “the Environment.”
BARELY A GLIMMER OF HOPE: MCKIBBEN LOOKS AT WHAT COULD BE THE END OF ‘THE HUMAN GAME’ IN ‘FALTER’
“By most accounts, we’ve used more energy and resources during the last thirty-five years than in all of human history.”
MORE DEMOCRACY NEEDED TO SURVIVE GLOBAL WARMING
Or: Free the Wu Train The hits just keep on coming from climate scientists—as they drop big global warming studies with increasing regularity. Fielding data and projections that look ever more depressing. Most recently, a new report by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services says that not […]
