Applications for the 2025 Climate & Community Institute junior fellowship are open until Monday, March 3. Open to all current grad students interested in researching the climate/economy nexus this summer. Come work with us! climateandcommunity.org/careers/

The precarity of public school finances has led to a pattern of short-term fixes including “right-sizing” districts. Here, we look into the economic, social, and climate benefits of converting “excess” buildings and land into green social housing that prioritizes students & staff

Lelo has been doing critical work to organize farmworkers in Washington State since he was 14 years old. Please call to demand his release!!

Lelo on our panel w Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC): “One of the biggest things they use against us is deportation. That's one of the biggest fears among all of us at the farm. But we continued, support came in, & we learned our rights... that gave us hope to continue.” youtube.com/watch?v=vs2mRS…

Two-in-three New Yorkers want municipal grocery stores and all the benefits that can accompany them: lower costs, more stable & climate-safe food supply chains, high-road standards for workers across the board, and more. Read here: substack.com/home/post/p-16…

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices. "The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military." (Climate & Community Institute/Data for Progress)

Converting unused school property to green social housing can offer public schools a range of benefits – from stemming enrollment drops to stabilizing teacher workforces and reducing building emissions. Join us to learn from organizers & experts taking up these campaigns!

Recommended read: The Jacobin examined how the focus of New York City mayor frontrunner Zohran Mamdani on lowering the cost of living can serve as a “blueprint” for embedding climate action in everyday life. 📝 Batul Hassan buff.ly/GromlwK

ZOHRAN DEFEATS CUOMO 56-44

i wrote about how Zohran Kwame Mamdani connects climate to cost of living issues & why his campaign is a model for democratic socialists in a warming world theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… thank you Batul Hassan Gustavo NYC-DSA Ecosocialists 🌹 NYC-DSA 🌹

“We need to expand mass transit to fight the climate crisis, which hasn’t been a priority for the Democratic establishment,” said Gustavo, who is an electrician by day. “But we also need to expand it because we want to improve people’s lives right now.”

the recording of today's episode of THE RIFT, a conversation with Batul Hassan about zohran mamdani's campaign and working-class climate politics in NYC, is now online: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

"As the working class works to elect its own champions into local government, examples of policy wins that unite climate and affordability are also coming to fruition." Ruthy Gourevitch and Batul Hassan on how unions & progressive leaders shape the future. inthesetimes.com/article/green-…

Somehow this NYT piece “dissecting” Zohran Kwame Mamdani ‘s schools agenda completely erased the campaign’s detailed plan for green, healthy schools, which can be easily accessed and read in full on the campaign site: docs.google.com/document/d/1EE…