Class & Climate: Colombia’s Just Transition with Lala Peñaranda
Colombian oil workers and la Unión Sindical Obrera (USO) are leading the charge for a just transition. Here’s what Canada can learn from their worker-led climate plan.
Nick Pearce
Nick Pearce is a freelance writer who hold a master’s of global affairs from the University of Toronto, where he completed a collaborative specialization in the School of Environment. He previously worked as a policy researcher at Common Wealth.
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Class & Climate: Winds of Change with Alex Connolly
The fight for better workplace conditions doesn’t stop at renewable energy. Workers in renewable energy need union representation, collective bargaining and a voice in their workplace for the energy transition to benefit all Canadians.
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Class & Climate: The Sustainability Class with Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan
Does the so-called green consumption of the “sustainability class” really work to help save us from climate catastrophe? Without challenging capitalism, can everyone afford the cost of living, reduce emissions, and achieve climate justice?
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Class & Climate: Moving Canada for Climate Action with Blandine Sebileau
Equiterre’s Sustainable Mobility Analyst shows how clean mobility can help working class Canadians save money while making our communities cleaner and healthier.
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Class & Climate: Union Power with Brandon Dyck, IBEW
The energy transition runs on union power. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) is one of the labour unions that will generate the electricity needed to seize the potential and jobs of a just transition.
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Class & Climate: Building a Green Workforce with Lindsay Amundsen
Lindsay Amundsen of Canada’s Building Trades Unions explains what a just transition really means for workers—and how union-led training programs are preparing the workforce for the green economy.
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From Public Power to Public Grocers in Canada: ‘Zoning Out’ for Economic Democracy
Progressives should consider creating and developing their own “zones” for building democratic power, putting into practice social democratic values. Through these islands of social democracy, the diffusion of democratic power could be incubated and seeded to propagate widely as neoliberal systems wither and fail.
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Class & Climate: Green Industrial Policy with Jim Stanford and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
Jim Stanford and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood define what green industrial policy is and explain why it’s having a renaissance in the middle of the Trump trade war.
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Profit, not price, is why we keep burning fossil fuels
Brett Christophers’ book, ‘The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet,’ argues why the energy transition can’t be left to the market.
