Conversations that go deep on the environment, the climate crisis, and the solutions
Aug. 21, 2020
The man with the climate plan.
Bracken is America’s leading policy expert on solving the climate crisis. He co-wrote the climate plan for Governor Jay Inslee’s presidential campaign, which became the go-to plan for all Democratic candidates running for president. That plan has been updated and now lives on as the Evergreen Action Plan, a comprehensive set of policy solutions for the climate crisis that Bracken and colleagues have made available to all political candidates at the national, state and local level. None other than Joe Biden now has adopted large parts of the Evergreen Action Plan in his own climate plan.
We spoke with Bracken both before and after Biden announced his climate plan and we are releasing these conversations in two episodes. In Episode 8.0 (August 20, 2020), Bracken gives us a frank and insightful assessment of how Biden’s plan stacks up to what the science mandates we must do to avoid climate chaos. In Episode 8.5 (August 27, 2020), Bracken explains the key policy pillars of standards-plus-investment-plus-justice of the Evergreen Action Plan and why this plan is vital to our future. And he inspires us with a vision of America that leads the world into a clean green future, invests in all her people with a broad range of policies to revitalize rural and urban areas, ensures that fossil fuel workers and their communities are not left behind, welcomes everyone into the middle class with good jobs, provides opportunity for young people during an economic crisis, and ensures climate justice for people of color and frontline communities.
Yes we can do all this -- tune in to find out how.
Connect with Bracken: Twitter | Instagram
Urban Ingenuity: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Linkedin
Evergreen Action: Website | Evergreen Action Plan | Medium Article | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Green Growth: Article | Official Report
Clean Jumpstart: Website | Official Memo
Inslee Climate Plan: Global Climate Mobilization
Common Dreams: In Far-Reaching Plan, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Proposes Radical Changes to Fossil Fuel Industry
The Huffington Post: Former Jay Inslee 2020 Staffers Form New Group to Promote Climate Plan to Democrats
Ohio History Central: Cuyahoga River Fire
2016 Report: A Retrospective Assessment of Clean Energy Investments in the Recovery Act
Biden Climate Plan: The Biden Plan to Build a Modern, Sustainable Infrastructure and an Equitable Clean Energy Future
The New York Times: Biden Announces $2 Trillion Climate Plan
The New Yorker: What Joe Biden’s Climate Plan Really Signals
The New York Times: Oil and Gas Groups see ‘Some Common Ground’ in Biden Energy Plan
Democracy: The Greatest Mobilization Since WWII
Grist: Green Bucks
Book: Apollo’s Fire: Igniting America’s Clean Energy Economy