Climate change requires all hands on deck: Can’t the Green New Deal and capitalism co-exist?

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-367
Author(s):  
Alexandria Novokowsky
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Hands On

The Green New Deal, Subsidiarity, and Local Action

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Christopher Rice ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Local Action ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Ethical Foundation ◽  
Common Criticism

A common criticism of the Green New Deal proposal to address climate change is that it would centralize too much power at the level of the federal government. However, the Green New Deal can avoid this by centering local action and decision-making in keeping with the principle of subsidiarity from Catholic social ethics. This principle holds that higher levels of society should not override the initiative of lower levels of society but should instead coordinate and support their work whenever possible. A focus on subsidiarity is already present in the framing of the Green New Deal proposal and provides a sound ethical foundation for its development and implementation.

Major Media Outlets and Climate Change Action: Comparing US Media Coverage of the Green New Deal

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Shumaila Bhatti ◽  
Bridget Jones ◽  
Sri Saahitya Uppalapati ◽  
Silje Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Media Coverage

From Progressive Cities to Resilient Cities: Lessons from History for New Debates in Equitable Adaptation to Climate Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 107808741991082
Author(s):  
Linda Shi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Structural Reform ◽  
Political Space ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Progressive Politics ◽  
Guidance Documents ◽  
Progressive Reforms

Planners and activists are identifying ways to promote equitable adaptation that counter climate injustice. This article explores how this progressive turn in adaptation compares with past progressive movements. I argue urban progressive politics have cyclical tendencies toward liberalism and radicalism, and that the evolution of planning for climate adaptation mirrors these waves. I review 10 recent guidance documents that recommend strategies for enhancing racially just adaptation. I then assess how these recommendations advance the three pillars of progressive reforms: redistribution, expansion of democracy, and structural reform. I find that proposed strategies for racially just resilience are a welcome advance from mainstream, unjust resilience planning. However, history suggests that the focus on procedural justice for oppressed communities seen in recent discourse may limit their scope and durability. I conclude with suggestions for areas where climate activists and scholars can expand given emerging political space for ambitious thinking under a Green New Deal.

scholarly journals Cold Curriculum for a Hot Topic

Eos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Averett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ice Core ◽  
Hands On

Educators at ice core labs teach students hands-on lessons about climate change.

Un nuovo ruolo per consumatori, imprese e finanza nella regolazione dei settori energia-clima

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-158
Author(s):  
Alberto Biancardi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Deal

Questo articolo prende avvio da una sintetica illustrazione del ruolo e degli obiet-tivi che le liberalizzazioni e la regolazione economica hanno avuto dagli ultimi due decenni del secolo scorso a oggi. Tutto ciò anche perché questo è ancora il modello di riferimento contenuto nelle norme comunitarie vigenti per i settori dell'energia e che resta parte integrante del Green New Deal. La crescente consapevolezza delle conseguenze derivanti dal climate change e della disponibilità di nuove tecnologie nei settori energetici, nonché in quelli a questi contigui, fra i vari impulsi al cambiamento che sta generando, sta metten-do in discussione anche questo modello di riferimento. L'articolo, illustrati i motivi che stanno alla base di questa messa in discussione e i principali punti aperti di questo confronto, si focalizza sul nuovo ruolo che consumatori, imprese e settore finanziario possono avere nella gestione del cambiamento climatico e della adozione delle medesime nuove tecnologie.

CHANGE: A Place-Based Curriculum for Understanding Climate Change at Storm Peak Laboratory, Colorado

2011 ◽  
Vol 92 (7) ◽  
pp. 909-918 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Gannet Hallar ◽  
Ian B. McCubbin ◽  
Jennifer M. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
High Elevation ◽  
School Students ◽  
Independent Evaluation ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Classroom Lesson

Curriculum in High Altitude Environments for Teaching Global Climate Change Education (CHANGE) uses place-based education to teach middle school students about meteorology and climate as a basis to improve climate science literacy. The curriculum provides in-school and out-of-school instruction and connects students with scientists at Storm Peak Laboratory, a high-elevation atmospheric research facility above Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Following an initial 2-h classroom lesson, students record their own measurements of temperature, pressure, wind speed, and particle concentrations while traveling up the mountain to Storm Peak Laboratory. After returning to the classroom, students graph these data and analyze their results. Evaluation of this program showed that students improved their knowledge of key concepts pertaining to climate literacy. The hands-on, place-based format of CHANGE can be used as a model for middle school students in alpine communities to teach lessons in weather and climate and can be further refined by improved lesson plans, increased feedback to students, and an independent evaluation.

From green jobs to Green New Deal: What are the questions?

2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462110097
Author(s):  
Frank Stilwell
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Green Jobs ◽  
Fiscal Stimulus ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
Australian Context ◽  
Economic Inequalities

Proposals for development of ‘green jobs’ emerged when environmentalists, labour organisations and political economists recognised the need for economic restructuring to reduce climate change. Current proposals for a Green New Deal go further by putting additional emphasis on fiscal stimulus, ‘just transition’, reducing socio-economic inequalities, and political empowerment. This article analyses the development of this more comprehensive policy approach, its rationale, the constraints it would face and its prospects in the Australian context. JEL Codes: B50, H12, L78, P18, Q58

scholarly journals Congressional Task Force Outlines Its Approach to Climate Change

Eos ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy Showstack
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Change Task

The Green New Deal created space to talk about market-based innovation, investment, and business and defense approaches, says a cochair of the New Democrat Coalition’s Climate Change Task Force.

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