California groups call for justice-focused energy system
In a Mercury News opinion article, Reclaim Our Power - a campaign mobilizing utility ratepayers including social justice advocates - calls on Governor Gavin Newsom to take over PG&E in the wake of another devastating wildfire. The utility's expensive diversion tactic - to underground a relatively small portion of power lines - likely won’t save lives, but will cost vulnerable Californians dearly.
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Historic Landmark Plaque for Emmett Till’s Home
On a sunny day on the South Side of Chicago, Blacks in Green hosted city officials and members of the community to unveil the historic landmark plaque for Emmett Till’s childhood home. Blavity published an op-ed, and local reporters came out in droves to cover the event, which took place on what would have been Till’s 80th birthday.
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The Solutions Project partners with Climate Week NYC
As a sign of its growing commitment to environmental and climate justice, Climate Week NYC has named our client The Solutions Project as this year’s Environmental Justice Partner. The Solutions Project will co-host inspiring events showing that when climate justice leads, we all stand to win. Co-hosts: The Uproot Project, the Solutions Journalism Network, Seventh Generation, and NY Renews.
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Where’d the money go?
$5 million was mysteriously removed from a proposed plan to reduce air pollution in Stockton’s communities of color under AB 617. Advocates have asked California Air Resources Board to get to the bottom of where the money went.
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EU & US states protect roads from climate impacts
In a discussion facilitated by our client Climate Finance Advisors, U.S. and EU officials share how they’re protecting roadways from the effects of a changing climate.
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FPL’s proposed 20% rate hike would hurt Florida families
In an op-ed for the Miami Herald, Catalyst Miami urges the Florida Public Service Commission to protect families by rejecting Florida Power & Light’s exorbitant request for a record-breaking $2 billion rate hike.
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To solve the climate crisis, center frontline communities
In her op-ed for The Hill, Elizabeth Yeampierre of UPROSE envisions a future centering communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis as valued partners in building bold and practical solutions.
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Soulardarity lights up once-dark streets with solar
Soulardarity’s new solar-powered streetlights light up Highland Park, Michigan, a predominately Black city that had its streetlights repossessed by the electric utility. Fast Company and VICE have the story.
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Activists denounce FP&L’s proposed 20% rate hike
Florida Power & Light wants a record 20% rate hike. Catalyst Miami’s Zelalem Adefris tells VICE that the proposal would impose a disproportionate burden on the poor while failing to facilitate the rapid shift to clean, efficient energy that Floridians deserve.
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Pack4U expands in Canada
Pack4U has opened a new central fill hub in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This will allow Canadian pharmacists to spend less time filling medication and more time focusing on what matters most: patient care.
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Cooler Cities
As extreme heat grips the Western U.S., UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation researcher V. Kelly Turner proposes a Cool Communities Act – inspired by the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act – to tackle heat pollution in our cities.
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NY activists see future for major climate bill
Despite lawmaker inaction this year, the 280+ environmental, justice, faith, labor and community groups that make up the NY Renews coalition see a future for the Climate and Community Investment Act. They vow to continue pushing for it to become law.
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California legislators should use $76 billion windfall to seal Green New Deal
In an op-ed for Capitol Weekly, Miya Yoshitani, executive director of the Asian Pacific Environmental Network and the Coalition for a California Green New Deal, urges lawmakers to use California’s $76 billion surplus to go big on a just transition to an equitable clean energy economy.
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Climate change raises risk of deadly waterborne pathogens
Dr. Sandra Gompf and Melissa Baldwin of Florida Clinicians for Climate Action tell ABC News that because climate change warms water temperatures, it could increase the risk of brain-eating amoeba and flesh-eating bacteria in lakes, rivers, and coastal waters.
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Governments Manage Climate Risk
Our client Climate Finance Advisors hosts a webinar on how the U.S. and the EU can use climate risk and disclosure frameworks to minimize climate risk vulnerability and maximize resilience investments. https://prezi.com/view/4ULChwDTGwk6ckFV04pc/
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Pack4U secures $20 million in private equity funding
The smart technology company Pack4U has secured $20M in private equity funding to radically improve and personalize healthcare, with a particular focus on the elderly and patients with complex medical conditions.
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The Solutions Project launches first-ever Asian American & Pacific Islander Climate Week
The Solutions Project’s first-ever Asian American and Pacific Islander Climate Week celebrates AAPI climate leaders and literary solutionaries of the past and present.
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Philanthropies must fund projects at the intersection of tech & climate justice
Gloria Walton, the powerful voice at the helm of The Solutions Project, talks frankly to philanthropies about putting their money where technology meets front-line communities of color in the drive for climate justice. It’s always an honor to facilitate a piece like this.
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Justice40 Initiative must center frontline climate communities
In The Hill, Partnership for Southern Equity Founder and Chief Equity Officer Nathaniel Smith says President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative must center frontline climate communities in order to effectively address the climate crisis and racial justice.
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Justice40 Accelerator helps climate justice groups apply for federal funding
The newly launched Justice40 Accelerator supports communities on the front lines of the climate crisis as they compete for federal funding flowing from President Joe Biden's historic executive order directing 40% of the benefits from government-funded climate action to disadvantaged communities.
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