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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.”

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Climate change as an undesirable side-effect of the fantastic innovation of using fossil fuels for energy is an example. The problem has gotten worse.” Medicine 2.0 Medicine 2.0

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Stories of Organizational Transformation: Moving Toward System Change and a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

The Center works with a combination of science, law, activism, and creative media to protect the lands, waters, and climate that people, wildlife, and all types of communities and ecosystems need to survive. The US has 5% of the world’s population but consumes 30% of the world’s resources and creates 30% of the world’s waste.”

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Protecting Solidarity: Countering Attacks on Mutual Aid Funds

NonProfit Quarterly

Where politically motivated captivity for civil rights activists loomed, bail funds responded. After Greenpeace mounted a campaign targeting Energy Transfer Partners (the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline), the company filed RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) charges in 2016.

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The Great Awakening, and Workers’ Fight to Stay Woke

NonProfit Quarterly

2 Democracy is not just a system of political practices; it must be applied to participation and decision-making in all aspects of our economic lives as well. 11 Second, many of our efforts also failed to center workers’ full identities, underestimating the motivations that lead them to risk their livelihoods to organize.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

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What Does It Mean to Dismantle Racial Capitalism Anyway?

NonProfit Quarterly

11 A study by the MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern Law School in Evanston, IL, found that ShotSpotter has a false alarm rate of 89 percent. The New Jersey pension fund confirmed that no new investments were being considered and voted to urge TPG to participate in negotiations with Puerto Rican advocates.