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The Federal Reserve Finally Talks About the Climate Crisis

The Federal Reserve Finally Talks About the Climate Crisis

It seems the reality of the climate crisis is too much for the Federal Reserve to ignore anymore. For the first time, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, one of its 12 branches, held the system’s first climate-related economic conference last week. By hosting “The Economics of Climate Change” conference the Federal Reserve signaled […]

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    94 World Mayors Call for Green New Deal, Blast Slow National Actions

    94 World Mayors Call for Green New Deal, Blast Slow National Actions

    Disappointed by the lack of concrete action at September’s UN Climate Action Summit, the mayors of some of the world’s biggest cities are taking matters into their own hands. The C40 group of mayors — who represent 94 cities, more than 700 million people and one quarter of the global economy — announced their support […]

    Whose Grid? Our Grid! Chicago’s Campaign to Put Electricity Under Public Control

    Whose Grid? Our Grid! Chicago’s Campaign to Put Electricity Under Public Control

    By Alex Schwartz Among the many vendors at the Logan Square Farmers Market on Aug. 18 sat three young people peddling neither organic vegetables, gourmet cheese nor handmade crafts. Instead, they offered liberation from capitalism. Representatives of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America (CDSA) engaged marketgoers in discussions about the campaigns they are involved in, […]

    Greta to Senate: Sorry, but Please Do More

    Greta to Senate: Sorry, but Please Do More

    Teen activist Greta Thunberg delivered a talking-to to members of Congress Tuesday during a meeting of the Senate Climate Change Task Force after politicians praised her and other youth activists for their efforts and asked their advice on how to fight climate change. "Please save your praise, we don’t want it. Don’t invite us here […]

    Brazil’s Bolsonaro ‘Angrily’ Rejects $22M in Aid From G7

    Brazil’s Bolsonaro ‘Angrily’ Rejects $22M in Aid From G7

    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro angrily rejected $22 million international aid offered by the G7 this week as fires burning in the Amazon continue to wreak havoc in the rainforest. Bolsonaro, who has accused other countries of trying to take Brazil’s sovereignty through investments and aid in the Amazon, seemed to walk back some of his […]

    Andrew Yang Reveals Almost $5 Trillion Plan to Address Climate Crisis

    Andrew Yang Reveals Almost $5 Trillion Plan to Address Climate Crisis

    Entrepreneur and 2020 hopeful Andrew Yang released a plan to address the climate crisis Monday, calling for investments in technology to get to net-zero emissions by 2049 and providing federal funding to relocate communities at risk. Yang, who has campaigned on his Silicon Valley background, emphasizes technical innovation in his plan, providing nearly $5 trillion […]

    DNC Shuts Down Climate Debate Compromise

    DNC Shuts Down Climate Debate Compromise

    The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will not let 2020 primary candidates share the stage in a debate devoted to the climate crisis, the party voted Saturday during its summer meeting in San Francisco. The DNC resolutions committee had already voted against holding a party-sanctioned debate on the topic Thursday, but it did approve language that […]