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
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
A frequent refrain in the environmental world is that “everything is a climate story”: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and our dependence on the fossil fuels heating up the planet, for example, are inextricably linked. But in our hyper-connected, global economy–one […]
“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 […]
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.
You are neither brave nor fit.
You abhor the deep-blue sea.
Innocent, who will acquit
those who look like me?
Liars all, you pay off the sharks
that murder us with glee.
Birthdays present the chance to reflect on the passage of time, on how one’s life has intersected with the broader narrative of humanity. I was born on November 14, 1984
In 2019, 181 CEOs of member-companies of the Business Roundtable announced that the purpose of a corporation must now be defined as delivering value to all stakeholders, including employees, communities, and the environment. Pitched as a dramatic redefinition of the […]
Greetings from my new home in Thousand Oaks, California! Chance and I drove 3,100 miles in an electric vehicle (“EV”) from Boston, MA to here, in just five days; we met up with Bianca and Richard, who had flown in […]
Go on the website of any environmental nonprofit worth its salt, and you will see language about the imperative to ensure a “just transition” to a green economy. The Climate Justice Alliance defines a just transition as “a place-based set […]
In the face of bad headlines–wildfires, the Delta variant, the Gulf Stream on the verge of collapse–I double-down on productive actions I can take: calling elected officials, donating, and finding ways to use Capital Good Fund as a better and […]