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Bridging for Environmental Justice across Space and Time: Cambodia and the US South

NonProfit Quarterly

4 The Cambodian government’s stated aim is for the dam to provide enough energy to stop power outages and further develop the country. Since the dam’s construction and operation, the holdouts have faced pressures from the dam company, which has offered them inadequate compensation and the threat of law enforcement.

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Navigating Climate Justice: Empowering BIPOC Youth with Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

NonProfit Quarterly

12 GHGs such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are naturally occurring gases that absorb energy from the sun and trap heat inside the atmosphere reflected from the earth’s surface. According to NASA, the average surface temperature of Earth “was about 2.45 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.36 degrees Fahrenheit (1.30

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

Everyone has the energy they need to survive and thrive. Our homes can withstand the bitter cold and extreme heat, and no one gets sick or dies prematurely for lack of affordable energy. Reshaping the Way We Live in the Midst of Climate Crisis.”

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Making History: 10 Black Women Leaders Inspire With Advice, Purpose, Action

Fundraising Leadership

Black History Month began in 1915 in this country, and was made into law in 1986. Women in The Workplace Report shows, Women remain underrepresented across the pipeline, a gender gap that persists regardless of race and ethnicity. I have to optimize that in myself, in others, and that gives me a lot of energy, hope, and power.

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Building Boundaries in Love for Equity and Justice: An AI Manifesto

NonProfit Quarterly

AIs ecological footprint extends through water-intensive demands, energy consumption, carbon emissions, and resource extraction, all of which pose serious risks to human health and fragile ecosystems. The data centers that power AI systems consume vast amounts of water for cooling, exacerbating water insecurity in vulnerable regions.

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Movement Economies: Building an Economics Rooted in Movement

NonProfit Quarterly

Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision? 4 We see, too, movement energy in the organizing at Amazon, at the over 200 Starbucks branches that have unionized, in the new vigor behind the pursuit of worker cooperatives and community land trusts. Can this movement energy coalesce into a cohesive vision?

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Climate change as an undesirable side-effect of the fantastic innovation of using fossil fuels for energy is an example. The problem has gotten worse.”