Our new report with @uawregion6.bsky.social and @bluegreenalliance.bsky.social demonstrates the benefits of the California Green Manufacturing Initiative, pro-worker green industrial policy legislation to take on rising prices and bottlenecks in a critical industry for our future: the electric grid.
Got to work on this cool project with @cplusc.bsky.social to revitalize manufacturing to address climate & energy needs. Check out the report out today!
Developed in partnership with @uawregion6.bsky.social , @bluegreenalliance.bsky.social , @bridgetmoynihan.bsky.social , @cthelala.bsky.social , @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social , @kmc39.bsky.social and many more brilliant contributors!
California — and the planet — needs bold, innovative policy and planning to deliver on affordable energy bills, faster decarbonization, and union manufacturing jobs in a sector that’s vital to a livable future: the electric grid industry. Read more here: climateandcommunity.org/research/a-n...
The benefits are huge: by stabilizing the supply chain and lowering equipment costs, our research shows the California Grid Manufacturing Initiative could save ratepayers up to $200 billion cumulatively over the next 25 years and develop thousands of direct union manufacturing jobs.
If the market is unable to meet demand in a timely and cost-effective way, CGMI would incentivize and/or enter joint venture agreements with manufacturers to grow high-road in-state production of critical grid components to meet the state's needs.
The CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative intervenes to fix these market failures. It would lead procurement of grid equipment alongside CA agencies and stakeholders. With this information, it would run a centralized procurement process to lower & stabilize runaway prices and maximize purchasing power.
Supply in critical electricity component parts like transformers is insufficient to meet demand and costs have risen more rapidly than other sectors. The need for rapid electrification grows daily, but transmission delays are holding back renewable & storage projects.
California's aging grid is facing critical shortages, sharp cost increases, and long lead times for critical components -- factors that have delayed decarbonization and climate resilience upgrades while driving up costs for ratepayers.
NEW @cplusc.bsky.social: A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative
In CA, labor-led green industrial policy is the way out of chronic delays and skyrocketing costs for electric grid components that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.
NYC Policy Forum has a publishing platform/newsletter designed to take policy conversations out of white papers & into the public sphere. It will provide a range of viewpoints & insights on the difficult tasks of governing as we work together to build an affordable NYC.
nycpolicyforum.substack.com
At the United for Green Schools panel for NYC climate week.
Great story from a Chicago school board member on how there was a resolution passed in June to do 12 green school pilots, creating a revolving fund for new money for these protects.
In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?
New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g
EXTRACTION is hitting the road this fall. Thrilled to be in conversation with @dharna.bsky.social @bentarnoff.com @dwallacewells.bsky.social @earthworks.bsky.social and others.
Stay tuned for more events in the winter and spring! @wwnorton.com
‼️ Join my team ‼️ @cplusc.bsky.social is hiring a Housing Policy Manager to help advance progressive housing and climate solutions alongside some of the best tenant unions, labor unions, policymakers, and researchers in the field.
Apply here by Oct 5! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
Will be celebrating the launch of Issue 2 at Climate Week w/ @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Come hang out w me and excellent panellists David Wallace-Wells, @brusselermel.bsky.social @batul.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social to talk about green planning + much more
Tix free but going fast!
Somehow this NYT piece “dissecting” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ‘s schools agenda fully erased the campaign’s detailed plan for green, healthy schools, which can be read in full on the campaign site: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The climate crisis is a catastrophe we cannot afford to ignore, means-test, or isolate as an “add-on” to other problems. Workers and tenants across the country understand that, and are advancing green economic populism at home and at work.
So fun to get to dig into it w/ @batul.bsky.social.
Labor and tenant unions can not only win climate objectives as well as economic ones but also build their bases through them.
Chicago's @ctulocal1.bsky.social and Southside Together show us how, as recounted in this piece by @cplusc.bsky.social's @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social and @batul.bsky.social.
Recommended read: The @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social examined how the focus of New York City mayor frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on lowering the cost of living can serve as a “blueprint” for embedding climate action in everyday life.
📝 @batul.bsky.social
"Mamdani's campaign has put forth a transformative, green vision of a city that works for the 99%—one that takes on the existential threat of the climate crisis through kitchen-table proposals to improve working peoples’ daily lives + take back power from the richest 1%"
jacobin.com/2025/06/mamd...
The Mamdani campaign offers a blueprint for the climate left: the path to full decarbonization must run through working class demands for affordability and quality-of-life jacobin.com/2025/06/mamd...
Vienna is the global capital of social housing, and is regularly ranked as the world's most livable city.
Our new report, featured in this @npr.org exclusive, explores Vienna’s green social housing—home to the majority of its renters—and how it can work here.
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
Converting unused public school property to green social housing can offer a range of benefits—from stemming enrollment drops to stabilizing teacher workforces to reducing building emissions.
Join us to learn from organizers & experts taking up these campaigns: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices.
"The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."
Last night, Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was taken by ICE in Washington State, where he has lived, worked, and organized as a farmworker since he was 14, on his way to take his partner to work. Take action against this attack on farmworker leadership now:
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Applications for the 2025 @cplusc.bsky.social junior fellowship are open until Monday, March 3. All current grad students interested in researching the climate/economy nexus this summer should apply. Come work with us! climateandcommunity.org/careers/
We are hiring Junior Research Fellows for the summer of 2025! We are looking for outstanding graduate students to join us for the summer to make meaningful contributions to our transformative research and policy work across geographies and economic sectors. Applications due March 3.
Thanks for calling in and pulling this thread together Brad!
Batul Hassan: "War is a defining feature, not a bug, of the extractive economy. We can't decarbonize without demilitarizing. The climate left has begun to take up the fact these military activities are meant to destroy. We need to be transitioning from a war economy to a peace economy."