Next week over 100 World leaders will descend to Glasgow for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26. The conference, which follows on from the historic 2015 Paris meeting, has been hailed as the most important climate summit in history. But whether the hype is justified depends a lot on the […]
The pandemic has led to a new appreciation of the workers who make our lives possible. These essential workers include the people who produce the food we eat. But now the pandemic – which should make us more grateful for the work farm workers do – is being used as an excuse to deny these […]
The NPQ kicks off the 2021-22 season of our Redo the economy series in Indian country. In partnership with the First Nations Development Institute (“First Nations”), we bring three Indigenous economic justice leaders to speak about their work and the challenges they face in a discussion format. Our panelists are: Heather Fleming (Navajo) is Executive […]
St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro is one of more than 70 spiritual communities that are part of Vermont Interfaith Action. Photo by Kevin O’Connor / VTDigger As Executive Director of Vermont Interfaith ActionDebbie Ingram knows that the 15,000 Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim members of her grassroots organizing group outnumber what the last […]
Sir, – Over the past 18 months, Covid has taught us, more than ever, the importance of public sector services. Yet across the world, brutal and inefficient public sector wage cuts are hurting the very sectors that governments claim to want to protect. This week, the 2021 annual meetings of the World Bank Group and […]
Chicago financial mogul Ken Griffin is quite wealthy and worth a little north of $ 21 billion. That’s more than the gross domestic product of the bottom 80 countries in the world. Griffin has also donated hundreds of millions of dollars, probably close to $ 1 billion, to various charitable causes, including efforts to improve […]
Albuquerque, New Mexico is an ideal place to host this next ASES conference. It is home to the New Mexico Solar Energy Association (NMSEA), the New Mexico chapter of ASES, which is excited to celebrate 50 years of achievement. NMSEA is a non-profit association dedicated to the advancement of solar and related arts, sciences and […]
Make no mistake, the fall of Chinese private real estate giant Evergrande aligns with President Xi Jinping’s stated vision for the nation. He ordered domestic companies to reclaim their position as the cornerstone of the Chinese economy at the 19th Party Congress in 2017, calling them “the pillar of the Chinese economy on which the […]
Ed Miliband is expected to tell the conference that Labor will be the party of “climate and economic justice together” as he lays out his plans to help UK manufacturers win “the global race” to decarbonize. Addressing the party’s annual meeting on Sunday afternoon, the first in-person conference since 2019, the Shadow Business Secretary will […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WREX) – Democrats in Illinois focused on economic and racial justice for the third day of the virtual Democratic National Convention. The delegation says the murders of black men and women this year and the disproportionate impacts of COVID-19 on communities of color have rolled back the curtain of injustice in the nation. […]