Stop Greed
Build Green

A strategic framework and agenda to build power for a new era of climate and economic transformation

The Overview

The United States is staring down both a cost-of-living and a climate crisis. We need a working class climate agenda that brings down costs, rebuilds the government, and remakes the economy to actually deliver for working class people.

15 Apr, 2026 • Climate and Community Institute, Climate and Community Institute

White Paper

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Stop Greed, Build Green: A Working Class Climate Strategy

The US is staring down deepening cost-of-living and climate crises. A framework that focuses on immediate relief, robust regulation, state capacity, and massive investment can move us towards a stable, green economy that works for everyone.

15 Apr, 2026 • Patrick Bigger, Johanna Bozuwa, Rithika Ramamurthy, Rakeen Mabud, Matt Haugen, Kristina Karlsson, Daniel Aldana Cohen, Winston Yau, Thea Riofrancos, Ruthy Gourevitch

Agenda

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Stop Greed, Build Green: A Working Class Climate Agenda

It’s time for a fresh path forward. We are staring down an ever deepening climate crisis and a cost-of-living crisis that has been harming people for decades.

15 Apr, 2026 • Climate and Community Institute

Series

Immediate Relief

Working people are struggling with an affordability crisis that grows worse as climate change exacerbates economic volatility. A business-as-usual approach to politics cannot ameliorate the structural deficiencies of an economy that endangers livelihoods and our shared environmental future. To meet this moment, Climate and Community Institute is publishing a number of policy proposals which foreground immediate relief from the affordability crisis in sectors from healthcare to utilities to housing. We have featured policies that offer relief in three areas: cutting costs, protecting rights and survival, and expanding leisure and access.

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Expanding SNAP to Make Food a Human Right

Nearly 48 million people in the US are food insecure, and Congress just cut SNAP by 20 percent. It's time to restore and expand food assistance for everyone who needs it.

21 Sep, 2026 • Matt Haugen, Laurel Levin

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Rerouting Funds from ICE to FEMA to Support Recovery, Not Terror

Climate disasters are getting costlier while the Trump administration guts disaster response. Congress should move money out of ICE and into FEMA to keep communities safe.

21 Sep, 2026 • Lorah Steichen

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Creating Transportation Independence through a Micromobility Tax Credit

Transportation insecurity makes everything else more expensive. Federal tax credits for bikes, ebikes, and other small vehicles would help households save money and cut emissions.

21 Sep, 2026 • Emmett Hopkins

Green Economic
Populism in Action

State and local elections are demonstrating that tying the material impacts of the climate crisis and the cost-of-living crisis together wins. Meanwhile, working class movements are taking matters into their own hands to advance climate and affordability together, and building new political coalitions in the process.