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Why Does Change Happen?
December 11, 2022

Unfortunately, many of us, especially activists and other change agents, understand far too little about what works and doesn’t, why some protests fizzle out and others lead to transformational change.

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Hey Elon, Why Not Make Twitter A Nonprofit?
November 20, 2022

In an increasingly privatized world, it’s worth remembering that some of our most cherished and trusted institutions–NPR, PBS, the USPS, libraries, the Social Security Administration, credit unions–are nonprofit, not-for-profit, quasi-governmental, or governmental entities. And this is true even as trust […]

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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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Be The Change  / Capital Good Fund  / environment

Election
November 6, 2022

It’s Fall on an even-numbered year
which means an election looms, again.

We wander pumpkin patches, corn mazes, haunted
houses, make holiday plans, think what gifts to give.

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Desperate Messaging for Desperate Times
October 23, 2022

In two weeks, voters across the country will decide whether to keep control of the House and Senate in the hands of Democrats, or give one or both chambers of Congress back to the party of Trump, insurrection, election denialism, […]

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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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Which Giving is Most Effective: Political or Charitable?
September 3, 2022

Anyone interested in maximizing social good must wrestle with an essential question: given a limited amount of money to contribute to various causes, what is the most effective allocation of those dollars? For whether one is able to donate $100 […]

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Enough With the Moral Absolutism
August 7, 2022

As I begin this essay, the Senate is on the verge of passing historic legislation to tackle the climate crisis, reduce prescription-drug prices, raise taxes on big corporations, and extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, among other things. (Update: the legislation […]

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