by Sydney Ghazarian | Jul 2, 2024 | Articles
The Labor Network for Sustainability recently co-sponsored a webinar on “Climate Justice at Work” with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee. The panel featured Starbucks worker and union member Mad Austin, Washington State farmworker unionist Alfredo Juarez,...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jul 2, 2024 | Articles
The Green Workers Alliance is an organization of more than 1,500 renewable energy workers across the country. The Alliance mobilizes current and future workers in the clean energy field to build support for green jobs policies that grow the sector and improve job...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jul 2, 2024 | Articles
The Climate Advocacy Lab recently released a Blueprint for a Multiracial, Cross-Class Movement. In mid-June, several Labor Network for Sustainability (LNS) staff members participated in the Lab’s convening on the Blueprint in Los Angeles along with allies from...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jul 2, 2024 | Articles
Artisanal cobalt miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo are pictured working with little, if any, health and safety measures Photo credit Wikimedia Commons Cobalt is essential for electric vehicle batteries, and much of that cobalt comes from the Congo. According...
by Sydney Ghazarian | Jul 2, 2024 | Articles
Hear author and disability advocate Anna Zivarts discuss her new book, When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency. The book gives an insight to how to redesign our transportation systems to meet the needs of nondrivers – many of whom have a...
