The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy

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Jeremy Brecher

The Green New Deal from Below

How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy

Jeremy Brecher

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University of Illinois Press
12 November 2024

Industrial relations & safety; Conservation of the environment

A visionary program for national renewal, the Green New Deal aims to protect the earth’s climate while creating good jobs, reducing injustice, and eliminating poverty. Its core principle is to use the necessity for climate protection as a basis for realizing full employment and social justice.

Jeremy Brecher goes beyond the national headlines and introduces readers to the community, municipal, county, state, tribal, and industry efforts advancing the Green New Deal across the United States. Brecher illustrates how such programs from below do the valuable work of building constituencies and providing proofs of concept for new ideas and initiatives. Block by block, these activities have come together to form a Green New Deal built on a strong foundation of small-scale movements and grassroots energy.

A call for hope and a better tomorrow, The Green New Deal from Below offers a blueprint for reconstructing society on new principles to avoid catastrophic climate change.

By: Jeremy Brecher
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780252046186
ISBN 10: 0252046188
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 12 November 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Jeremy Brecher is a cofounder and senior strategic advisor for the Labor Network for Sustainability. His books include Strike!, Save the Humans? Common Preservation in Action, and Climate Insurgency: A Strategy for Survival.

Reviews for The Green New Deal from Below: How Ordinary People Are Building a Just and Climate-Safe Economy

“Massive social transformation emerges through the ingenuity and vision of ordinary people. Jeremy Brecher captures the beginnings of a sea change within communities, unions, cities, and states that champion climate protection, justice, and job creation through their own Green New Deals. These highly readable, inspiring, and hopeful chapters trace how change truly happens--from the bottom up.”--Varshini Prakash, co-founder of the Sunrise Movement