The Green New Deal From Below : How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy
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| Title: | The Green New Deal From Below : How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy |
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| Description: | A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth's climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for realizing full employment and social justice. Jeremy Brecher goes beyond the national headlines and introduces readers to the community, municipal, county, state, tribal, and industry efforts advancing the Green New Deal across the United States. Brecher illustrates how such programs from below do the valuable work of building constituencies and providing proofs of concept for new ideas and initiatives. Block by block, these activities have come together to form a Green New Deal built on a strong foundation of small-scale movements and grassroots energy. A call for hope and a better tomorrow, The Green New Deal from Below offers a blueprint for reconstructing society on new principles to avoid catastrophic climate change. |
| Authors: | Jeremy Brecher |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Sustainable development--United States, Environmental policy--Economic aspects--United States, Social justice--United States, Economic development--Environmental aspects--United States |
| Categories: | POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth's climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for realizing full employment and social justice. Jeremy Brecher goes beyond the national headlines and introduces readers to the community, municipal, county, state, tribal, and industry efforts advancing the Green New Deal across the United States. Brecher illustrates how such programs from below do the valuable work of building constituencies and providing proofs of concept for new ideas and initiatives. Block by block, these activities have come together to form a Green New Deal built on a strong foundation of small-scale movements and grassroots energy. A call for hope and a better tomorrow, The Green New Deal from Below offers a blueprint for reconstructing society on new principles to avoid catastrophic climate change. |
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| ISBN: | 9780252046186 9780252088278 9780252047459 |
