Climate and Community Institute
Climate and Community Project is a progressive climate policy think tank developing cutting-edge research at the climate-inequality nexus in the US and around the world. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
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- We're in an energy crisis, and millions of people can't even afford the utilities they need to survive storms, heatwaves, and freezes. Read CCI fellow @sevier.io and Energy+Industrial Systems Policy Manager Winston Yau on how public power can deliver lower costs and cleaner energy.
- Converting unused public school property to green social housing can offer a range of benefits—from stemming enrollment drops to stabilizing teacher workforces to reducing building emissions. Join us to learn from organizers & experts taking up these campaigns: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
- Reposted by Climate and Community InstituteThe summer of shutoffs is here. The left’s answer must advance climate, affordability, and managed decline together. "Public power can begin to build us out of this deep contradiction between the well-being of Americans and the deregulated system." @sevier.io with Winston Yau @cplusc.bsky.social:
- How is home insurance both a cost of living + climate issue? Read Housing Director @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and fellow @moira.bsky.social explain how home insurance works, why rising rates are driven by disasters, and how to fix the system. climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/the-home-i...
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- Despite a federal government hostile to climate and housing progress, tenants are creating a blueprint for how to organize effectively amid the climate crisis and win safer and more affordable homes. Read @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social to learn how: shelterforce.org/2025/04/04/t...
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- Municipal grocery stores can bring down bills for working class households while supporting high quality, stable, affordable food supply chains in a warming world. Our new work with @dataforprogress.org shows that people want public options. climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
- Last night, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was taken by ICE in Washington State, where he has lived, worked, and organized as a farmworker since he was 14, on his way to take his partner to work. Take action against this attack on farmworker leadership now: bsky.app/profile/food...
- Take action for Lelo today: Contact Washington AG's office: fortress.wa.gov/atg/formhand... | 360-753-6200 Contact Governor’s office: governor.wa.gov/contacting-g... | 360-902-4111 Donate to Lelo's legal defense: www.foodjustice.org/donate-1
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- Our Substack is up! In our 1st post, Remaking the State for Green Economic Populism, we look at the urgent need for a transformative approach to climate action that centers economic justice and solidarity- but we can't get there without a functional administrative state substack.com/home/post/p-...
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- If you're going to be at AAG in Detroit, join us and @blackgeographies.bsky.social for Happy Hour on Tuesday at the Elephant Room from 6-8, right after the BGSG keynote! Drink tickets available while they last!
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- NEW: Insurers are hiking rates, shrinking protections, and refusing coverage while disasters increase nationwide. 2 decades after Hurricane Katrina, average premium rates in Louisiana are 8th highest in the US. New analysis by us shows how bad its become: climateandcommunity.org/research/sha...
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- We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.
- “The more disasters that happen, the more insurance costs rise. And the more that existing housing is destroyed, we have to build even more in order to respond to the need.” CCI's @moira.bsky.social in @kqednews.bsky.social on how climate crisis impacts cost of living: www.kqed.org/news/1202312...
- Must-listen @macrodosepod.bsky.social on NYT piece by our strategic co-directors @aldasky.bsky.social + @triofrancos.bsky.social on moving past a "prius economy" to green economic populism. If you haven't read it, now's your chance: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/o... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
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- Home insurance is supposed to be a safety net for people. But as disasters like wildfires increase in scope and severity, insurers are cutting back coverage and raising rates. We need public insurance that works to protect people, not profits. Here's how: www.dissentmagazine.org/article/a-pu...
- Reposted by Climate and Community InstituteWhat are the ways forward for climate action under Trump? National policy is foreclosed. But a lot can happen at the state and local level. @aldasky.bsky.social and I argue that we must embrace green economic populism, tackling the cost-of-living crisis and the climate crisis together 🧵
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- Both candidates in the 2024 election supported fossil fuel expansion, and many politicians believe phasing them out is unpopular. Our new polling data collected during the campaigns shows overwhelming support for curtailing fossil fuel production.🧵 climateandcommunity.org/research/vot...
- ICYMI: On Monday we hosted a webinar featuring @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @triofrancos.bsky.social @jbozuwa.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social asking 'What's next for the climate left?' in light of the struggles we're going to be facing over the coming years. You can watch any time here:
- This week our work was included in testimony from the State of Palestine at International Court of Justice hearings on Climate Change.
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- New policy brief from CCI: Reparative Fiscal Justice for Caribbean Climate Action
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- Reposted by Climate and Community InstituteExtremely cool event in DC next month! Join @cplusc.bsky.social for a conversation ft @jbozuwa.bsky.social @advaitarun.bsky.social & Kate Aronoff with Sandeep Vaheesan on his new book, Democracy in Power on the history and future of public power. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-to...
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- The stakes of the years ahead are clear. Climate and the economy are a disaster for working people—and will worsen. To rebuild the left & fight fascism, we need a political vision that connects kitchen table issues to the fate of the planet. Our Seize the Future memo series lays out key priorities.
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- COP16 of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity starts today! The last COP agreed to new conservation targets- this one will be about meeting them. Our report, Exporting Extinction, shows how the global financial system drives extinction & how structural reforms can address the ecological crisis.
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- CA residents want equity in their water system, which entrenches structural racism and funnels profits to the wealthy few, depleting the state's diminishing groundwater and exacerbating water insecurity. Our new report details how we fight back 👇 climateandcommunity.org/research/achie
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