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Climate and Environmental Justice and the Infrastructure Bill
Yesterday, President Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”), marking a major achievement for both the Biden Administration and the usually-gridlocked Congress. The IIJA makes critical investments in […]
Centering Black, Latinx, and Indigenous Leadership and Innovation in Climate Solutions
Across the country Black, Indigenous, Communities of Color, and Frontline communities are leveraging their expertise, lived experiences, and community relationships to develop solutions that interrupt the status quo and shine […]
Elevating & Building the Capacity of BIPOC Frontline Communities Innovating Just Climate Solutions
For decades now, BIPOC frontline organizations have united, fought, and led progress against environmental injustices and the disproportionate impacts of climate change. Historically, this progress has been dependent on grassroots […]
The Electric Grid in a Time of Climate Disasters: Communities Show the Way
Three major electricity grid disasters in just over a year are exemplary of the havoc that climate extremes are causing and what needs to be done about it: (i) the […]
The Rising Dawn: How Equitable Solar Policy Can Forward Economic and Climate Justice Part 3/3
Scaling Up & Building Solutions to Expand Frontline Community-Led Solar The Just Solutions Collective and the People’s Solar Energy Fund presents, “The Rising Dawn: How equitable solar policy can forward […]
The Rising Dawn: How Equitable Solar Policy Can Forward Economic and Climate Justice Part 1/3
No sun outlasts its sunset, but it will rise again and bring the dawn – Maya Angelou BIPOC-Frontline Community-Led Solar Policy Solutions The Just Solutions Collective and the People’s Solar […]
Public Transit – an element of economic and environmental justice
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2017, about 50 million U.S. households were under such economic stress that they could not cover an unexpected $400 expense, like the breakdown of a […]
Regenerative & Just 100% Policy Building Blocks Released by Experts from Impacted Communities
The Just Solutions Collective launched a new effort to bring forward and coalesce the expertise from frontline communities into the Comprehensive Building Blocks for a Regenerative and Just 100% Policy. This […]
