A Recipe for Climate Action
Just a pinch of fear can go a long way.
Janet is co-director of the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, where she provides analysis of the international financial institutions’ energy investment and carbon finance activities. Her recent studies on the World Bank’s climate activities include World Bank: Climate Profiteer, and Dirty is the New Clean: A critique of the World Bank’s strategic framework for development and climate change. She has appeared on several radio programs and C-SPAN sharing positive visions for fair and equitable climate action in the United States and overseas. As a founding participant in the global Climate Justice Now! network, Janet is committed to bringing hard-hitting policy analysis into grassroots and grasstops organizing.
Before joining IPS, Janet was a visiting faculty member at the College of the Atlantic and directed the Watershed Initiative of the Center for Applied Human Ecology at the College. Her work in youth and women’s empowerment through community farming and sustainability has brought Janet from coastal Maine to the heart of Worcester, Massachusetts to Bangladesh.
Janet holds a Master’s Degree from Clark University in International Development and Social Change, where she focused her graduate research on regional trade integration in Latin America and the Caribbean. She also holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont.
We have to mobilize the political will of rich countries to share the wealth.
Many countries -- especially the wealthiest ones -- are dragging their feet.
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If you want to get your grandkids something they'll be really thankful for this holiday season, fight to stop climate change.
Talking about the weather isn't small talk any more.
Industry simply doesn't have an incentive to kick its fossil fuel habit.
People living in "transition" cities and towns are working together to make their communities more resilient to economic and environmental uncertainty.
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