Climate and Community Institute
@cplusc.bsky.social
Climate and Community Institute is a progressive climate and economy think tank. We work with movements and progressive policy makers to pass new policy, improve implementation, shift narratives, and deepen coalitions. 🌱 http://www.climateandcommunity.org
From @triofrancos.bsky.social: We need rigorous, empirically-grounded policy founded on cutting-edge research and a grounded theory of change to realize our climate goals. Donate $5 by Dec 31 to fund the movement for a climate just future! secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
December 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
From @triofrancos.bsky.social: We need rigorous, empirically-grounded policy founded on cutting-edge research and a grounded theory of change to realize our climate goals. Donate $5 by Dec 31 to fund the movement for a climate just future! secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
Critical minerals currently being stockpiled by the Pentagon for weapons could be used to decarbonize the economy instead– at a time when our shrinking climate window demands decisive action.
Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Critical minerals should not be stockpiled for military use
The US is funnelling materials such as cobalt and graphite into national defence rather than new climate technologies
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December 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Critical minerals currently being stockpiled by the Pentagon for weapons could be used to decarbonize the economy instead– at a time when our shrinking climate window demands decisive action.
Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...
Read our Global Systems and Policy Manager in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/42ab...
From @aldasky.bsky.social: What do Kansas City tenants and the Chicago Teachers Union have in common? They rely on us, CCI, for policy research to support their struggles for a fair, just, green economy for all. Donate $5 today to help us continue the work! secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
December 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
From @aldasky.bsky.social: What do Kansas City tenants and the Chicago Teachers Union have in common? They rely on us, CCI, for policy research to support their struggles for a fair, just, green economy for all. Donate $5 today to help us continue the work! secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
The climate crisis & cost of living crisis are deeply intertwined. Donate $5 to CCI today to help us reach our goal of $10,000 by Dec 31 and fuel climate policy that materially benefits the working class. secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
December 15, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The climate crisis & cost of living crisis are deeply intertwined. Donate $5 to CCI today to help us reach our goal of $10,000 by Dec 31 and fuel climate policy that materially benefits the working class. secure.actblue.com/donate/clima...
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Since I walked away from a tenure track job 4 years ago to move to think tank work, A LOT of people have asked me how and why; I tried to consolidate some of that thinking into this interview I did with @mjhaugen.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social 's substack
“How Do You Solve for Impact?”
An interview with Patrick Bigger on leaving academia, strategic research, and scholar activism
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Since I walked away from a tenure track job 4 years ago to move to think tank work, A LOT of people have asked me how and why; I tried to consolidate some of that thinking into this interview I did with @mjhaugen.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social 's substack
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In today's newsletter, part of a joint series with @cplusc.bsky.social on what a just digital transition during an era of accelerating climate crises could look like, @hannahstoryb.bsky.social critiques Trump's abundance agenda for fossil fuel-powered AI and points to an alternative roadmap.
Reclaiming an Abundant and Democratic Future in the Age of AI
Big Tech and Big Oil’s big visions for the future are antagonistic to human life.
revolvingdoorproject.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In today's newsletter, part of a joint series with @cplusc.bsky.social on what a just digital transition during an era of accelerating climate crises could look like, @hannahstoryb.bsky.social critiques Trump's abundance agenda for fossil fuel-powered AI and points to an alternative roadmap.
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Report launch day! Check out this project with @cplusc.bsky.social looking back on Maine's public power ballot initiative. Despite a classic case of corporate capture and a loss at the polls, this is a hopeful story that (imo) has a lot to teach us
@smconstantino.bsky.social #energysky
@smconstantino.bsky.social #energysky
What lessons can utility justice and public power advocates draw from this campaign? Read the full report and recommendations to learn more: climateandcommunity.org/research/end...
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Report launch day! Check out this project with @cplusc.bsky.social looking back on Maine's public power ballot initiative. Despite a classic case of corporate capture and a loss at the polls, this is a hopeful story that (imo) has a lot to teach us
@smconstantino.bsky.social #energysky
@smconstantino.bsky.social #energysky
2 years ago, a ballot initiative to build public power in Maine was defeated. But our new research shows that even after the vote, public support for public power stayed strong. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Despite a Blow at the Ballot Box, Voters Still Want Public Power
Lessons from the Maine Public Power Campaign
substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
2 years ago, a ballot initiative to build public power in Maine was defeated. But our new research shows that even after the vote, public support for public power stayed strong. substack.com/home/post/p-...
There's still time to sign up for today's webinar on Healthy School Finance with @ctulocal1.bsky.social and @debtcollective.bsky.social at 4:30p eastern. Register at bit.ly/HSFwebinar
Our webinar on healthy school finance has been rescheduled for November 20 at 4:30 ET. Register at bit.ly/HSFwebinar
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
There's still time to sign up for today's webinar on Healthy School Finance with @ctulocal1.bsky.social and @debtcollective.bsky.social at 4:30p eastern. Register at bit.ly/HSFwebinar
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The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight. Read more in my new piece w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social
forgeorganizing.org/article/as-c...
forgeorganizing.org/article/as-c...
As Climate Collapse Inches Closer, The Tenant Union Is The Best Chance We’ve Got - The Forge
The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight, where tenant unions are battling for survival against the twin threats of negligent landlords and rising heat.
forgeorganizing.org
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
The hallways of apartment buildings have become a new front in the climate fight. Read more in my new piece w/ @taraghuveer.bsky.social in @forgeorganizing.bsky.social
forgeorganizing.org/article/as-c...
forgeorganizing.org/article/as-c...
In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm
Supply Chain Solidarity: Lessons from the Lithium Frontlines - Climate and Community Institute
Workers and organizers, representing different parts of the transportation supply chain, journey across Nevada to learn first-hand about the impacts of lithium mining for electric vehicle batteries.
climateandcommunity.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm
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New research out today with my colleague Jacob Udell on financial distress in the multifamily market. We focus on the impact on tenants, who have little say over their landlords’ financial decisions but bear the brunt of the consequences of this escalating crisis.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Financial distress in the multifamily market is on the rise in the United States: Multifamily loan delinquencies are at their highest rate in 10 years, having nearly doubled in the last year alone.
November 13, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New research out today with my colleague Jacob Udell on financial distress in the multifamily market. We focus on the impact on tenants, who have little say over their landlords’ financial decisions but bear the brunt of the consequences of this escalating crisis.
Check it out!
Check it out!
Our webinar on healthy school finance has been rescheduled for November 20 at 4:30 ET. Register at bit.ly/HSFwebinar
November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Our webinar on healthy school finance has been rescheduled for November 20 at 4:30 ET. Register at bit.ly/HSFwebinar
Financial distress in the multifamily market is on the rise in the United States: Multifamily loan delinquencies are at their highest rate in 10 years, having nearly doubled in the last year alone.
November 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Financial distress in the multifamily market is on the rise in the United States: Multifamily loan delinquencies are at their highest rate in 10 years, having nearly doubled in the last year alone.
How can non-extractive debt financing build public capacity for investment in green facilities that school communities deserve?
Join us TOMORROW at 430-6 ET for a conversation on healthy school finance with @debtcollective.bsky.social, @ctulocal1.bsky.social, and more.
bit.ly/HSFwebinar
Join us TOMORROW at 430-6 ET for a conversation on healthy school finance with @debtcollective.bsky.social, @ctulocal1.bsky.social, and more.
bit.ly/HSFwebinar
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Healthy School Finance: Rethinking Debt in the Movement for Green Public Education Facilities. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email abou...
In the US, funding for public K-12 facilities is highly dependent on access to credit conditioned by the fiscal “health” of school districts, the expertise and judgements of private financial intermed...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
How can non-extractive debt financing build public capacity for investment in green facilities that school communities deserve?
Join us TOMORROW at 430-6 ET for a conversation on healthy school finance with @debtcollective.bsky.social, @ctulocal1.bsky.social, and more.
bit.ly/HSFwebinar
Join us TOMORROW at 430-6 ET for a conversation on healthy school finance with @debtcollective.bsky.social, @ctulocal1.bsky.social, and more.
bit.ly/HSFwebinar
Read the fourth essay in a new geopolitics series from @transitionsec.bsky.social—a new research center cofounded with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social—on what the US-China conflict means for the world economy.
The US and China have agreed to a one-year truce in their trade war. What lies behind this conflict and what does it mean for the world economy?
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
Read @mona-ali.bsky.social on Washington’s assault on global trade and the alliances emerging in response.
transitionsecurity.org/rebalancing-...
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Read the fourth essay in a new geopolitics series from @transitionsec.bsky.social—a new research center cofounded with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social—on what the US-China conflict means for the world economy.
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Great piece. "Mamdani’s agenda treats affordability of essentials as democratic obligation, not market efficiency."
This approach also underpins the work at @cplusc.bsky.social, from the reimagining of home insurance that I've done, to @sevier.io's vision for public energy.
#PeopleOverProfits
This approach also underpins the work at @cplusc.bsky.social, from the reimagining of home insurance that I've done, to @sevier.io's vision for public energy.
#PeopleOverProfits
“My friends, the world is changing. It's not a question of whether that change will come. It's a question of who will change it.” @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
People are choosing real alternatives instead of continuity. Mamdani stands for an antifascist economics in the name of the many. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Great piece. "Mamdani’s agenda treats affordability of essentials as democratic obligation, not market efficiency."
This approach also underpins the work at @cplusc.bsky.social, from the reimagining of home insurance that I've done, to @sevier.io's vision for public energy.
#PeopleOverProfits
This approach also underpins the work at @cplusc.bsky.social, from the reimagining of home insurance that I've done, to @sevier.io's vision for public energy.
#PeopleOverProfits
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@cplusc.bsky.social’s brilliant @pmbigger.bsky.social takes the wheel on our front page today.
War industries — especially across the US & Europe — are quietly (or not so quietly) fanning the flames of the #climate crisis. As temps climb & political will melts, #COP30 begins in Belém on Nov 10.
War industries — especially across the US & Europe — are quietly (or not so quietly) fanning the flames of the #climate crisis. As temps climb & political will melts, #COP30 begins in Belém on Nov 10.
November 9, 2025 at 6:36 AM
@cplusc.bsky.social’s brilliant @pmbigger.bsky.social takes the wheel on our front page today.
War industries — especially across the US & Europe — are quietly (or not so quietly) fanning the flames of the #climate crisis. As temps climb & political will melts, #COP30 begins in Belém on Nov 10.
War industries — especially across the US & Europe — are quietly (or not so quietly) fanning the flames of the #climate crisis. As temps climb & political will melts, #COP30 begins in Belém on Nov 10.
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NEW: In the first installment in a joint series between @cplusc.bsky.social and RDP, Sarah Knuth and Winston Yau make the case for fighting Big Tech's political capture with green economic populism.
When AI Comes to Town
The Fight for the United States’s Green Economic Future
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
NEW: In the first installment in a joint series between @cplusc.bsky.social and RDP, Sarah Knuth and Winston Yau make the case for fighting Big Tech's political capture with green economic populism.
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And in the week's Q&A, @jael.bsky.social chats with @cplusc.bsky.social's @jbozuwa.bsky.social on a proposal publicly owned wind power:
Should the Government Just Own Offshore Wind Farms?
A chat with with Johanna Bozuwa of the Climate and Community Institute.
heatmap.news
October 31, 2025 at 6:51 PM
And in the week's Q&A, @jael.bsky.social chats with @cplusc.bsky.social's @jbozuwa.bsky.social on a proposal publicly owned wind power:
The Trump administration’s is attacking offshore wind and slowing development. Our new report shows that the US needs between 270-485 gigawatts of offshore wind to decarbonize by 2050; but current plans only allot ~50 GW of projected capacity.
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/without-of...
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/without-of...
Without Offshore Wind, the US Will Continue to Drive Up Electricity Costs and Fall Behind on Decarbonization
New CCI report proposes a “Moon Shot” for offshore wind
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The Trump administration’s is attacking offshore wind and slowing development. Our new report shows that the US needs between 270-485 gigawatts of offshore wind to decarbonize by 2050; but current plans only allot ~50 GW of projected capacity.
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/without-of...
climatecommunityinstitute.substack.com/p/without-of...
"The report suggests overhauling the current [utility] system, shifting from investor-owned utilities to public power...[and] found that NY's poorest households spend up to 34% of their income on energy."
Our new research with @publicgrids.org in @news10.bsky.social
www.news10.com/news/rising-...
Our new research with @publicgrids.org in @news10.bsky.social
www.news10.com/news/rising-...
www.news10.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"The report suggests overhauling the current [utility] system, shifting from investor-owned utilities to public power...[and] found that NY's poorest households spend up to 34% of their income on energy."
Our new research with @publicgrids.org in @news10.bsky.social
www.news10.com/news/rising-...
Our new research with @publicgrids.org in @news10.bsky.social
www.news10.com/news/rising-...
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“The way US empire is being restructured adds to the existential threat of climate crisis — militarisation, a new Cold War and the formation of power blocs are carbon intensive undertakings.”
Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions
transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...
Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions
transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...
Two Transitions
A series of essays on geopolitics, the climate crisis and collective safety in a multipolar world.
transitionsecurity.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“The way US empire is being restructured adds to the existential threat of climate crisis — militarisation, a new Cold War and the formation of power blocs are carbon intensive undertakings.”
Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions
transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...
Read the introduction to our new series — Two Transitions
transitionsecurity.org/two-transiti...
The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...
A Federal Offshore Wind Authority: A Public Moon Shot for Offshore Wind
We propose that a future administration establish a federal Offshore Wind Authority to supercharge buildout and deliver affordable electricity.
climateandcommunity.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The current federal administration is destabilizing the offshore wind industry with stop-work orders and slashed subsidies. We need a credible plan to meet climate targets and build capacity—enter a federal Offshore Wind Authority. climateandcommunity.org/research/off...
Electricity prices are soaring across the US, with nearly 1/4 of U.S. adults—about 52 million people—unable to pay their bills. How does the way rates are designed undermine energy affordability? Our new report OVERCHARGED with @publicgrids.org explains how: climateandcommunity.org/research/ove...
October 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Electricity prices are soaring across the US, with nearly 1/4 of U.S. adults—about 52 million people—unable to pay their bills. How does the way rates are designed undermine energy affordability? Our new report OVERCHARGED with @publicgrids.org explains how: climateandcommunity.org/research/ove...