California's Lessons for the Justice40 Initiative
California environmental justice leader Dillon Delvo of Little Manila Rising, which advocates for those disproportionately harmed by climate change and dirty energy, recently issued a plea to the Biden administration. As the administration moves forward with its landmark Justice40 Initiative, he asks for a “grassroots up” approach. Putting federal dollars directly into the hands of marginalized communities is the best way to grow and replicate programs that are making a real difference in Black, brown and under-resourced communities.
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Blavity’s Earth Day Must-Read
In Blavity, Naomi Davis of Blacks in Green writes a powerful op-ed that counters the typical Earth Day focus on the importance of individual action on climate and environment issues. Instead, she highlights that working with your community on local climate and sustainability efforts is where your efforts can really pay off.
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Bringing Building Decarbonization Technologies to Market
In Smart Cities Dive, IMPEL+ Director Reshma Singh highlights ways to support entrepreneurs in bringing their building decarbonization technologies to market.
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COP26, from the climate justice perspective
In Native News Online, Climate Justice Alliance co-director Ozawa Bineshi Albert calls for real community solutions in the wake of COP26, rather than net zero schemes, to solve the climate crisis. She calls on government and industry to look to frontline communities for leadership and guidance. These individuals and groups - with the fewest resources to fight climate change - are making a real difference locally.
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Energy efficiency is best bet for jobs & savings
The co-owner of Ideal Air Conditioning and Insulation in Phoenix tells the Phoenix Business Journal that policymakers should embrace energy efficiency policies to create jobs and save families and businesses money on their utility bills. In the U.S., energy efficiency already employs more people than oil, coal or gas.
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In North Miami, low-income investors shape neighborhood’s future
A $1 million grant from JPMorgan Chase will support the North Miami Community Investment Cooperative, a commercial property to be cooperatively owned and operated by small-dollar investors in the neighborhood. Catalyst Miami designed the initiative to fuel wealth-building, boost local businesses, and promote self-determination for residents of North Miami’s low-income communities, so they can decide how their own neighborhoods grow and prosper.
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Puerto Ricans want a clean energy future
In Canary Media, Solar United Neighbors - a national nonprofit organization that helps people go solar, join together, and fight for their energy rights - calls on the Biden Administration to direct FEMA dollars for Puerto Rico away from funding dirty, expensive fossil fuel infrastructure. Instead, SUN sees a better, safer, cleaner and lower cost energy future in solar.
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Hurricane Harvey’s 4-Year Anniversary
Doris Brown – a Houston resident who works deep in the trenches of disaster recovery – talks to NowThis about the four-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey.
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California groups call for justice-focused energy system
In a Mercury News opinion article, Reclaim Our Power - a campaign mobilizing utility ratepayers including social justice advocates - calls on Governor Gavin Newsom to take over PG&E in the wake of another devastating wildfire. The utility's expensive diversion tactic - to underground a relatively small portion of power lines - likely won’t save lives, but will cost vulnerable Californians dearly.
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Where’d the money go?
$5 million was mysteriously removed from a proposed plan to reduce air pollution in Stockton’s communities of color under AB 617. Advocates have asked California Air Resources Board to get to the bottom of where the money went.
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FPL’s proposed 20% rate hike would hurt Florida families
In an op-ed for the Miami Herald, Catalyst Miami urges the Florida Public Service Commission to protect families by rejecting Florida Power & Light’s exorbitant request for a record-breaking $2 billion rate hike.
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To solve the climate crisis, center frontline communities
In her op-ed for The Hill, Elizabeth Yeampierre of UPROSE envisions a future centering communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis as valued partners in building bold and practical solutions.
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Cooler Cities
As extreme heat grips the Western U.S., UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation researcher V. Kelly Turner proposes a Cool Communities Act – inspired by the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act – to tackle heat pollution in our cities.
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California legislators should use $76 billion windfall to seal Green New Deal
In an op-ed for Capitol Weekly, Miya Yoshitani, executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and the Coalition for a California Green New Deal, urges lawmakers to use California’s $76 billion surplus to go big on a just transition to an equitable clean energy economy.
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Philanthropies must fund projects at the intersection of tech & climate justice
Gloria Walton, the powerful voice at the helm of The Solutions Project, talks frankly to philanthropies about putting their money where technology meets front-line communities of color in the drive for climate justice. It’s always an honor to facilitate a piece like this.
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Justice40 Initiative must center frontline climate communities
In The Hill, Partnership for Southern Equity Founder and Chief Equity Officer Nathaniel Smith says President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative must center frontline climate communities in order to effectively address the climate crisis and racial justice.
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Communities of color are leading with practical solutions to the climate crisis
The Rev. Leo Woodberry tells Shondaland.com how solar-powered panels at his South Carolina church are making clean drinking water from thin air. It's part of a grassroots drive to advance clean energy options and make his frontline community more resilient to a changing climate.
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Front-line climate communities are key to success for Justice40 Initiative
The Hill kicked off Earth Month with an op-ed by The Solutions Project CEO Gloria Walton. She says front-line communities are the key to success for President Biden’s historic order that 40% of benefits from federal climate action flow to disadvantaged communities.
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Southern-focused Green New Deal has political momentum
The Miami Herald published an op-ed by environmental justice leaders Alexander Easdale of the Southeast Climate & Energy Network and the Reverend Leo Woodberry about the groundswell of support for Southern Communities for a Green New Deal.
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Op-Ed: Black and Indigenous Unity is Vital to Achieve Equity
We are proud to have worked with The Solutions Project to facilitate Tatewin Means’ powerful op-ed in Blavity calling on Black and Indigenous communities to work together to achieve liberation and equity for all people.
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