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  1. Getting Real About the Green New Deal : Democracy Journal

    The Green New Deal, which nearly every prospective Democratic nominee has embraced, has given climate change the urgency the issue deserves, backed by a sweeping agenda that makes an ambitious platform like Bernie Sanders's embrace of a carbon tax in 2016 suddenly seem feeble. ... As this essay explains, ...

  2. Green New Deal

    Green New Deal (GND) proposals call for public policy to address climate change along with achieving other social aims like job creation, ... On Fire is a collection of essays focusing on climate change and the urgent actions needed to preserve the planet.

  3. What Is the Green New Deal? A Climate Proposal, Explained

    The Green New Deal calls on the federal government to wean the United States from fossil fuels. Bryan Tarnowski for The New York Times. The goal of the Green New Deal is to reduce greenhouse gas ...

  4. Strengths and weaknesses of the Green New Deal

    At least 37 papers among 11 independent research groups find that the electric grid can stay stable at low cost with at or near 100 percent wind-water-solar. ... The Green New Deal is sparking an ...

  5. How the Green New Deal Changed the Conversation

    The Green New Deal's vision: affirmative investment in green industries, decarbonization as an engine of economic growth, and racial equity and job creation at the center of the national project.

  6. With a Green New Deal, Here's What the World Could Look Like for the

    A Green New Deal, moreover, "will actually help the economy by stimulating productivity, job growth and consumer spending, as government spending has often done," Kelton, Bernal, and Carlock add. "In fact, a Green New Deal can create good-paying jobs while redressing economic and environmental inequities.".

  7. The Green New Deal, explained

    Update, 3/30/2019: Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) introduced a Green New Deal resolution on February 7 that lays out the goals, aspirations, and specifics of the ...

  8. Learning With: 'Nine Key Questions About the Green New Deal'

    Liberal Democrats put flesh on their "Green New Deal" slogan on Thursday with a sweeping resolution intended to redefine the national debate on climate change by calling for the United States ...

  9. The Green New Deal: Mobilizing for a Just, Prosperous, and ...

    This white paper lays out the guiding vision behind the Green New Deal Resolution proposed to the U.S. Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bill Markey in February of 2019. It explains the senses in which the Green New Deal is 'green' on the one hand, and a new 'New Deal' on the other hand.

  10. The Green New Deal and the case for a radical economic reboot

    On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal , by Naomi Klein, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Simon & Schuster, RRP$27, 320 pages. The Case for the Green New Deal , by Ann Pettifor, Verso Books, RRP£12.99 ...

  11. Green New Deal

    Inclusive as it is, the Green New Deal resolution is not without contradictions. Planetary warming does not respect national borders; climate justice in one country is not climate justice for all, and the explosive force of capital remains. Nonetheless, the GND has gained significant traction as a serious, thoughtful, and informed starting point for linking decarbonization with just transition.

  12. Opinion

    Her essay is an outstanding compendium of proposals designed to strengthen family and neighborhood. ... The authors of the Green New Deal assume that technocratic planners can master the movements ...

  13. What Is the Green New Deal?

    The term "Green New Deal" is synonymous with policies that tackle climate change and boost investment in sustainable energy. The term was first used by Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas Friedman in ...

  14. Should the US Implement a Green New Deal?

    Ed Markey, US Senator (D-MA), in a Feb. 7, 2019 press release, "Senator Markey and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Green New Deal Resolution," available on markey.senate.gov, stated: "The sun is setting on the dirty energy of the past. Today marks the dawn of a new era of climate action. A Green New Deal is about jobs, and it is about justice.

  15. How the Green New Deal Changed the Conversation (with Rhiana Gunn

    The Green New Deal's vision: affirmative investment in green industries, decarbonization as an engine of economic growth, and racial equity and job creation at the center of the national project. "They wanted a World War II style economic mobilization that would cut emissions in 10 years, create millions of jobs, and…reduce the racial ...

  16. On Fire (book)

    ISBN. 9781982129910. Preceded by. The Battle for Paradise. Followed by. How to change everything. On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal is Naomi Klein 's seventh book, published in September 2019 by Simon & Schuster. [1] On Fire is a collection of essays focusing on climate change and the urgent actions needed to preserve the planet.

  17. The Green New Deal in the United States: What it is and how to pay for

    The US Green New Deal (GND) resolution introduced by Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey is the first comprehensive program combining climate change mitigation and the elimination of economic inequality that could, conceivably, soon be adopted as policy in a major economy. We outline its main features, together with Senator Bernie ...

  18. Design and the Green New Deal

    This essay is not. From where I sit — in McHarg's former department, in a center bearing his name, on the 50th anniversary of his most important book — that rhetoric rings hollow. ... The Green New Deal is a generational investment in planning and design that will radically transform the landscape of the United States. It is the biggest ...

  19. For the Green New Deal

    The process of scenario building is basically a science fictional exercise, imagining various possible futures starting from the current moment, and then arguing for one over the other. It's notable that in H. Res. 109, the most prominent collection of ideas and proposals that has come to be known as the Green New Deal, the authors have decided to make human justice and equity major parts of ...

  20. 74: How a Green New Deal Could Exploit Developing Countries (Táíwò)

    Land-grabbing and exporting solar power. But the Green New Deal will not meet any definition of climate justice if it becomes the next chapter in a long history of U.S. industrial policies that have oppressed people.. During the 19th century, when the transcontinental railway system arose, the U.S. gave land to rail companies it had taken it from Native Americans in a series of coerced ...

  21. PDF TH S H. RES. 109

    a Green New Deal. Whereas the October 2018 report entitled ''Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 oC'' by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the November 2018 Fourth National Climate Assessment report found that— (1) human activity is the dominant cause of ob-served climate change over the past century;

  22. History Grade 11

    The First Hundred Days. When analyzing the legacy of the "New Deal", it is important to understand that there were two phases of the deal, namely the "First New Deal" and the "Second New Deal". The First New Deal consisted mainly of the first three months of Roosevelt's presidency and is referred to as the "hundred days". [5]

  23. Essay Summary: How the European Green Deal Will Succeed or Fail

    As an economic project, the European Green Deal has the potential to stimulate investment in the face of a weakening global economy and persistent economic inequalities. This echoes previous New Deal and Green New Deal concepts. But its success depends on going further: addressing the structural economic risks posed by climate change and ...