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Boston’s Fare-Free Bus Experiment

NonProfit Quarterly

Her campaign centered this policy as part of a comprehensive, municipal Green New Deal plan to bring sustainable jobs and much-needed climate and environmental justice to the City of Boston. Highway to Hell The existing US transportation system causes and perpetuates several social, economic, and environmental harms.

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

RR: The book is based on your discovery that everyone’s “economic issues are also emotional ones.” Because the things we are up against, movements for economic, political, or environmental justice, are huge industries, entrenched systems, and habits of thought. AT: That’s a great way of putting it, ubiquitous but uneven.

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Recentering Philanthropy toward Social Justice

NonProfit Quarterly

And they’re not looking for a nonprofit grantmaking vehicle; they’re looking for ways to invest in, say, businesses that will sustain not only their immediate family but an entire community, because of threats that their families are facing—whether political threats or climate or economic issues. And so, that’s an example.