Updates

Lauren Jacobs and Cindy Wiesner discuss US-based and global movements, the gendered division of labor, and redefining our relationships to work, each other, and nature.

How Grassroots Collaborative weaves together economic justice, racial justice, and community-labor organizing in the city

How we build an electric system that truly benefits everyday people, our communities, and the planet

Our Executive Director Lauren Jacobs unpacks opportunities to advance justice in the year ahead

How we move from COP27 to Climate Justice

A conversation about building community resilience and energy democracy

A conversation with POWER about strengthening communities through public banks.

Local communities are advancing infrastructure projects that tackle inequities and create a healthier planet

"If the federal government is serious about rebuilding and modernizing America, they need to propose a publicly funded plan to invest in the projects we need," says Nikki Fortunato Bas.

"Implementing this system will mean better wages and safer jobs for those who collect our waste, healthier air for our residents, far less waste contributing to climate change and less traffic in our neighborhoods," affirms Nikki Fortunato Bas.

Workers in New York are part of a fight to reform the private sanitation system and looked to their LA counterparts for guidance on improving work standards and recycling rates, while reducing truck impacts.

Partnership affiliate Puget Sound Sage is a founding member of a coalition of organizations elevating the interests of people of color and low-income communities in climate policy, community-based education, organizing,and impact investments.

People of color and low-income earners have been disproportionately impacted by dirty energy policies. In our transition to a clean energy economy, we must be sure to distribute burden and opportunity more equitably.

The Partnership, along with key worker organizations and environmental justice allies, is incubating a national movement to slow climate change and create good jobs through waste industry transformation.

Pittsburgh United's Clean Rivers Campaign ensures maximum community benefits, protects ratepayers, especially those with a low or fixed income, and makes sure that those who create the biggest burden for the sewer system pay their fair share.

The Green Justice Coalition unites a wide range of community groups, many of which are not traditionally involved in environmental work, in order to advocate for energy policies that benefit local people and frontline communities.

Cities have the power to create good and safe jobs by contracting with recycling companies that maintain rigorous health and safety standards.

We see recycling and zero waste as social solutions at the intersection of two major crises: climate change and economic inequality.

By a 12-1 vote of City Council, the City of Los Angeles just passed the new Zero Waste LA policy championed by LAANE and the Don't Waste LA Coalition!

New York City has taken steps toward building a more environmentally sustainable city in recent years, yet the commercial waste industry has been largely overlooked, much to the detriment of New York’s economy, environment, communities and workers.