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Green New Deal

LEADERS, ACTIVISTS PUSH FOR A BOSTON GREEN NEW DEAL

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted November 17, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

King Tide street flooding accentuates need for action.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: flooding, Green New Deal, Kannan Thiruvengadam, King Tide, michelle wu, Ross Quinn

CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE RESIDENTS TALK ENVIRONMENT AT MARKEY TOWN HALL

Written by KARINE VANN Posted February 17, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“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.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: AOC, Cambridge, Ed Markey, Environment, Green New Deal, Politics, recycling, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, SOMERVILLE, sustainability, sustainable

A CHARLIE HORSE FROM BAKER DOWN IN WEYMOUTH

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 3, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

It’s time to call the governor out for being a shameless business-assist monkey right now, because later’s always too damn late.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Dear Reader, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, compressor station, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, energy, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, fracking, FRRACS, gas, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, natural gas, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, spectra, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis, Weymouth, Weymouth Compressor Station

HOUSING. SURELY WE CAN DO BETTER.

Written by SUREN MOODLIAR Posted October 17, 2019 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Boston, government, Green New Deal, Housing, Massachusetts, opinion, public housing, social housing, Suren Moodliar

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE MOST DANGEROUS SQUARE MILE

Written by SUREN MOODLIAR Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

The centuries-long relationship with Boston that made Chelsea a frontline community for environmental justice ...

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, chelsea, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, compressor station, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, Encore Casino, energy, Environment, environmental reporting, Everett, Falter, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, fracking, FRRACS, gas, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Langone Park, LNG, LNG Plant, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, Most Dangerous Square Mile, natural gas, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Revere, Special Climate Crisis Issue, spectra, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis, Weymouth, Weymouth Compressor Station

BOSTON’S CLIMATE STRIKE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Written by CRAIG S. ALTEMOSE Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

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.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Beacon Hill, Bill McKibben, Boston, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Charlie Baker, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, compressor station, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, energy, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, fracking, FRRACS, gas, global warming, Governor Baker, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, Massachusetts, natural gas, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, spectra, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis, Weymouth, Weymouth Compressor Station

WEYMOUTH ACTIVISTS CONTINUE TO CHALLENGE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

Written by ITAI VARDI Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: Analysis, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

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.

Filed Under: Analysis, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, compressor station, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, energy, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, fracking, FRRACS, gas, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, natural gas, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, spectra, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis, Weymouth, Weymouth Compressor Station

INTRODUCTION: OUR SPECIAL CLIMATE CRISIS ISSUE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: Dear Reader, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Covering Climate Now now ranks as one of the most ambitious efforts ever to organize the world’s media around a single coverage topic.

Filed Under: Dear Reader, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis

WALLIS ON DEMOCRACY AND ECOSOCIALISM: TWO URGENT BOOKS FOR A WORLD COMING UNHINGED

Written by JOE RAMSEY Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books

The labor and ecological movements must converge, Wallis argues, despite a fraught history pitting “Jobs” against “the Environment.”

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, Covering Climate Now, Democracy Denied, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, pollution, Red-Green Revolution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, The Nation, Uber, Victor Wallis

BARELY A GLIMMER OF HOPE: MCKIBBEN LOOKS AT WHAT COULD BE THE END OF ‘THE HUMAN GAME’ IN ‘FALTER’

Written by ED MEEK Posted September 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Books, DigThis, LISTINGS

“By most accounts, we’ve used more energy and resources during the last thirty-five years than in all of human history.”

Filed Under: A+E, Books, DigThis, LISTINGS Tagged With: #CoveringClimateNow, Alternatives for Community and Environment, Bill McKibben, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, climate crisis, climate crisis issue, Columbia Journalism Review, Covering Climate Now, Environment, environmental reporting, Falter, global warming, Green New Deal, Jason Pramas, Koch brothers, Logan Airport, Lyft, Mass Department of Public Utilities, pollution, Special Climate Crisis Issue, The Nation, Uber

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