The Potential of Trolleybuses
Transforming transportation will be a critically important part of the decarbonization effort in the United States where the transport of people and goods produce more of …
Our Research
Climate and Community Institute (CCI) creates research that connects issues that dominate our political economy directly with the climate crisis. We lay the groundwork for ambitious and creative climate goals in the near term, and build the vision for a just, decarbonized future.
Less War, Less Warming: A Reparative Approach to US and UK Military Ecological Damages
The US and UK militaries are two of the institutions most responsible for climate crisis in the world. Only a reparative approach can begin to account …
The Effects of Lithium Mining
Although lithium is geologically abundant, the vast majority of lithium extraction is concentrated in Australia, Chile, Argentina, and China. At the same time, the lithium extraction …
Building Decarbonization has a Natural Gas Pipeline Problem
A disorderly, market-based process to reduce greenhouse gases by removing appliances that burn natural gas from every home and building in the United States has begun. …
We Choose Now: Gulf to Appalachia Climate Action Strategy
At this moment, the United States is advancing sweeping federal actions that could fund critical climate solutions or sink us further towards climate disaster. However, the …
Lessons from the study of redlining and health for green housing investment
Across academic disciplines and mainstream media, the framing of contemporary inequalities as a direct result of “redlining” has exploded over the past few years. Redlining is …
Primer: Green Industrial Strategy for Just Transitions
After forty years of neoliberal environmental and economic policy dominance, industrial policy is back at the center of agendas around the world. In the US, industrial …
Blended Finance
Blended finance has become a dominant paradigm in development and environmental finance over the last 15 years. The main idea is that scarce public resources will …
An Economist’s Case for Restrictive Supply Side Policy
Until the rise of the Green New Deal, economists’ favored response to the climate crisis was some form of carbon pricing—leveraging the market to produce positive …
Building Public Renewables in the United States
We propose a new Federal Public Power Program that would create a public option for renewable energy across the United States that can catalyze decarbonization and …
