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High Interest Rates Are a Climate Problem
November 16, 2022

In 2008 I was a graduate student with almost no understanding of the financial system–I couldn’t even explain the difference between an interest rate and an APR!–working to launch what would become Capital Good Fund: a nonprofit lender. One day […]

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The Inflation Reduction Act Opens the Floodgates to Action
October 17, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) is one of those once-in-a-lifetime, transformational pieces of legislation that’s so far-reaching and chock-full of potential, it’s hard to wrap one’s mind around it. Indeed, when it passed in August the mood in the climate […]

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The Greatest Tool For Fighting Climate Change
September 17, 2022

When we think of building a clean future, the tools that come to mind are technologies like wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and heat pumps. And all of these are essential, to be sure. But there is a tool […]

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So You Bought An EV & Solar Panels: Are You A Climate Hero?
September 10, 2022

So you just bought an electric vehicle (“EV”), solar panels, heat pump, or other clean technology. Are you now a climate hero? You’ve reduced your emissions, to be sure, but… not quite! In this post, I’m going to explore the […]

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Channel Rage into Change: On Gun Violence, Climate, and Reproductive Rights
June 25, 2022

I’ve written that everything is an everything story, by which I mean that, in a global economy that is hyper-connected–physically, via supply chains, and digitally, via the Internet–it is difficult to separate one issue from another. For instance, climate change […]

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Tackling the Climate Emergency: An Urgent Call for Action and Funding
April 29, 2022

 As the goal to limit warming to 1.5C slips out of reach, Capital Good Fund seeks $25 million to kickstart a 5-year plan to deploy $1 billion in green loans to 40,000 underserved homeowners

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The ‘All of the Above Strategy’ We Need
April 11, 2022

“Sen. Manchin launches new push for ‘all of the above’ energy bill” – Washington Post As much as the political right likes to chant Drill Baby Drill, it was under President Obama that natural gas came to be touted as […]

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Climate or Bust: An Historic Opportunity for Action
February 13, 2022

“Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.” ― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals In the past few months, Congressional […]

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A Bad Day
December 28, 2021

Who then would touch their torch to the sky,
bring down a raw, pure flame—
make light of so much devastation?

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A Five-Step Action Plan on Democracy and Climate
December 19, 2021

I choose to make a stand on the beaches even as the waters rise and the sun bears down hotter than ever. And I choose to do so with a spirit of love, joy, righteous anger, and deep sadness.

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