sean sweeney
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Preparing a Public Pathway to Renewable Energy: TUED Working Paper #10
Why a profit-based approach to renewable energy is failing to deliver the energy transition, and why we urgently need to pursue public alternatives. By Sean Sweeney and John Treat Why, in a world awash with “idle capital” and in desperate need for a just energy transition to a renewables-based system, are global investment levels in…
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Standing Rock-Solid with the Frackers
This post was originally featured at New Labor Forum. By Sean Sweeney If anyone were looking for further evidence that the AFL-CIO remains unprepared to accept the science of climate change, and unwilling to join with the effort being made by all of the major labor federations of the world to address the crisis, the…
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Labor and Climate Change: What Comes Next?
For a while, it looked like we’d have to choose: labor or climate; jobs or the planet. But with unions like the CWA increasingly calling for action on climate change, some of these once-divergent interests appear to be coming into alignment. As Samantha Page wrote in an article in ThinkProgress last week: The Climate and Community Protection…
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New Labor Forum Highlights: May 31st, 2016
The New Labor Forum has launched a bi-weekly newsletter on current topics in labor, curated by the some of the most insightful scholars and activists in the labor world today. Check out some highlights from the latest edition below. In this week’s newsletter, we begin by taking a closer look at workers in the energy industries. New Labor Forum…
