Dr. MK Dorsey
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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As the Director and Chair of the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Service…
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Renewables' potential depends on transparent & fair policies
Renewables' potential depends on transparent & fair policies
By Dr. MK Dorsey
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT - NAS Senior Program Assistant, Sustainability Program
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT - NAS Senior Program Assistant, Sustainability Program
By Dr. MK Dorsey
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$2M to create useful products out of plastic headed for the ocean. Congrats, USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and…
$2M to create useful products out of plastic headed for the ocean. Congrats, USC Wrigley Institute for Environment and…
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To put it simply, my first week at Mosaic has reinforced for me the exponential power of investing in Movement Infrastructure. No question about it.…
To put it simply, my first week at Mosaic has reinforced for me the exponential power of investing in Movement Infrastructure. No question about it.…
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Excited to start as the City of Detroit’s first Director of Entrepreneurship and Economic Opportunity!! For years and in the aftermath of COVID…
Excited to start as the City of Detroit’s first Director of Entrepreneurship and Economic Opportunity!! For years and in the aftermath of COVID…
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Publications
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An Interview With Sunrise Movement Co-Founder Michael Dorsey
Ecology Center (Ann Arbor)
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Market forces, not mandates, should guide Minnesota’s electric vehicle future
MinnPost
Getting more electric vehicles on the roads of Minnesota is a laudable goal, but there are serious hurdles and complicated realities the state’s leaders must first face.
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Greater Innovation Is the Solution to Bitcoin’s Carbon Footprint
Morning Consult
The growth of blockchain technologies like cryptocurrencies seem to be doubling each year, and this fast growth has revealed the unintended environmental consequences just as quickly.
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Commentary: To deliver justice, lift the cap on small-scale solar
Crain’s Detroit Business
It's time to deliver energy justice to Michiganders. To do so we need to rethink and reconfigure dated energy legislation.
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Hedge Funds versus Visionary Leaders
The Solutions Journal
Fans of transformative corporate action and business models to enhance health, planetary and human wellbeing have celebrated the work of Emmanuel Faber, the visionary CEO of French food company, Danone.
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We Can Still Win the War on Plastic
Fair Observer
For many years, even decades, before the current global pandemic, environmental advocates have waged a war against single-use plastic. We’ve been winning that war. More and more consumers are carrying reusable bags for groceries and other shopping items, asking restaurants to use more sustainable materials for take-out containers, and using fewer plastic straws. Homeowners are even rethinking and replacing plastic PVC (polyvinyl chloride) in everything from home siding to piping.
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Renewables' potential depends on transparent and fair policies, not special interest giveaways
UtilityDive
The relative low cost of power produced by renewables has eased today’s economic hardships — and will continue to do so far into the future.
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Clean Energy Keeps Freedom Ringing Across the United States
Morning Consult
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Communities Rebuild, The Right Infrastructure is Necessary for Health & Safety
Medium
“It’s an unfortunate part of life in Northern California that many families have bags packed ready for a fast escape from wildfires. What’s not expected, though, is that infrastructure critical to the health and safety of communities melts in those fires and contaminates the water supply.”
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A ban on diesel cars isn’t the best path to cleaner air
SACRAMENTO BEE
“It is shortsighted to assume that diesel bans will solve climate challenges, without considering the energy used in other forms of transportation. Some believe such bans will accelerate the push into electric vehicles, but this ignores accessibility, affordability and the impact on poor and working-class families.”
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The poor won’t thank you for killing off the diesel engine
City A.M.
"Enthusiasm about the future of electric vehicles, combined with angst tied to VW’s misdeeds, must not be allowed to taint the discourse surrounding the future of the automobile. Progressive and practical policy solutions that help achieve our ultimate goal of reducing emissions must address the mobility needs of the most marginalised."
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Ban on selling new gas-fueled cars would have unintended (bad) consequences
San Jose Mercury News
“Over time, however, our cars have become safer – thanks to new technologies – and cleaner – thanks to increased CAFE standards. Yet America’s love affair with the automobile continues to be a dilemma for U.S. policymakers...”
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Why Pollution Trading Will Never Be the Climate Solution for California—or Anywhere Else
AlterNet
Carbon prices have never been high enough to drive the technological innovation to fully stop carbon pollution.
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Understanding the Toxic Chemical Gap
Aspen Institute
"From cities to national parks, there are thousands of ways that man-made chemicals are invading our most sacred places."
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Is Nuclear Power Vital to Hitting CO2 Emissions Targets? No.
Wall Street Journal
Supporters say nuclear plants are the best way to transition to a low-carbon future. Others argue the plants are too risky to keep in operation.
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Do toxic dumps in Puerto Rico portend the next Flint tragedy?
Orlando Sentinel
"The tragedy of Flint has taught us a great deal about how poor governance can lead to a poisoning of a community. It happened after a decade or more of waning attention to crucial environmental concerns down at the level where Americans live, in their neighborhoods and in homes, particularly for the most vulnerable populations."
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Escaping the 20th Century Neoliberal Prison Complex: What should climate justice organizations do with the Green Climate Fund in the 21st Century?
Carbon Trade Watch
"Empirically, in the aftermath of the world financial crisis, there is a case to be made that specific pools of finance directly contribute to the worsening climate crisis. Those heavily invested in the fossil fuel sector represent the most obvious example. Other pools of capital and managers of capital offer “climate solutions” yet simultaneously provide financial resources to some of the largest carbon polluters."
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. The Plan: How the U.S. Can Stabilize The Climate and Create A Clean Energy Future
Available at: usclimateplan.org (Now: https://www.sunrisemovement.org/ )
The Plan spells out steps to reduce US net greenhouse gas emissions by 30-54% of 2005 levels by 2020 and can drive us to carbon neutrality by 2050.
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Steer clear of this climate ‘Ponzi scheme’
Business Day (South Africa)
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Anatomies of environmental knowledge & resistance: diverse climate justice movements and waning eco-neoliberalism
Journal of Australian Political Economy
'Climate Justice' is the name of the new movement that best fuses a variety of progressive political-economic and political-ecological currents to combat the most serious threat humanity and most other species face in the 21st century. The inability of global elite actors to solve major environmental, geopolitical, social and economic problems puts added emphasis on the need for a climate justice philosophy and ideology, principles, strategies and tactics.
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Businesses and biodiversity: they would say that
Nature
Biodiversity interacts with essential and interdependent planetary processes, such as climate change and nitrogen cycles, which are already approaching threshold limits (Nature 461, 472-475; 2009). Bayon and Jenkins's view of existing market-based mechanisms--for example, the European Union (EU) carbon market and biodiversity offsets--is too narrow.
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At the water’s edge: climate justice, small islands and sustainable development
Earthscan
“For us in the small islands, this is an issue of survival–not just for AOSIS but also for LDCs and for all developing countries. In the case of AOSIS, sea-level rise threatens our sovereignty… there is a possibility that our nations will no longer exist in the lifetime of ourchildren and our grandchildren. “
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Climate knowledge and power: Tales of skeptic tanks, weather gods, and sagas for climate (in) justice
CNS
"The world is uneven. The extent of the empirical case for growing, widespread global inequality is so extreme that some scholars characterize the present world configuration as one defined by global apartheid. 1 Tariq Banuri observes that the planet is one big underdeveloped nation, where wealth and resources are concentrated in the hands of a shrinking minority, while immiseration and injustice are socialized and widespread. It is against this backdrop that negotiations to manage the world's…
"The world is uneven. The extent of the empirical case for growing, widespread global inequality is so extreme that some scholars characterize the present world configuration as one defined by global apartheid. 1 Tariq Banuri observes that the planet is one big underdeveloped nation, where wealth and resources are concentrated in the hands of a shrinking minority, while immiseration and injustice are socialized and widespread. It is against this backdrop that negotiations to manage the world's climate unfold."
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Carbon trading won’t work
Los Angeles Times
"Economists, some environmentalists and a growing gaggle of politicians are pushing a grand strategy that a market mechanism — known as "carbon cap and trade" — can rescue us fastest from a climate catastrophe. But early evidence suggests that such a scheme may be a Faustian bargain."
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The political ecology of bioprospecting in Amazonian Ecuador
State University of New York (Albany, NY)
“Bioprospecting—the attempt to identify and eventually commercialize potentially valuable genetic and biochemical resources—is not a new activity. Transnational, commercial flows of medicinal plants date back to the sixteenth century (Ortiz Crespo 1995). What is new about the present transnational resurgence in bioprospecting is that it is driven primarily by four interlocking factors: ...”
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Race, Poverty and Environment
Legal Studies F.
“The movement for environmental justice in the United States represents a multi-racial, multi-issue response to the failure of the mainstream, predominantly white environmental movement to adequately address issues of social and economic justice. As early as 1972 Herbert Marcuse warned that divorcing equity and social justice concerns from the environmental agenda would leave environmentalists vulnerable to" effective, if unprincipled attack." The quest for environmental justice has emerged as…
“The movement for environmental justice in the United States represents a multi-racial, multi-issue response to the failure of the mainstream, predominantly white environmental movement to adequately address issues of social and economic justice. As early as 1972 Herbert Marcuse warned that divorcing equity and social justice concerns from the environmental agenda would leave environmentalists vulnerable to" effective, if unprincipled attack." The quest for environmental justice has emerged as a consequence of environmental racism. ...”
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Toward an idea of international environmental justice
World Resources Institue (WRI)
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El movimiento por la Justicia Ambiental en EE. UU. Una breve historia
Ecologica Politica
“El movimiento por la Justicia Ambiental en los Estados Unidos representa una respuesta multirracial y ...”
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I have exciting news to share! In this crucial election year, I have decided to leave Human Rights Watch after two extraordinary years, and return to…
I have exciting news to share! In this crucial election year, I have decided to leave Human Rights Watch after two extraordinary years, and return to…
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It was an honor to speak with members of the New Democratic Coalition this week about how we can work with policy makers to unlock more economic…
It was an honor to speak with members of the New Democratic Coalition this week about how we can work with policy makers to unlock more economic…
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Ready for Day 1 of #WorldWaterWeek ! Follow our events, live and online, here. https://lnkd.in/dpRYXM49
Ready for Day 1 of #WorldWaterWeek ! Follow our events, live and online, here. https://lnkd.in/dpRYXM49
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Breakfast with the GOAT. My mentor. My friend. University of Michigan’s Vice President Emeritus, Jerry May. #forever #goblue
Breakfast with the GOAT. My mentor. My friend. University of Michigan’s Vice President Emeritus, Jerry May. #forever #goblue
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We are excited to announce that Professor Dr. M. K. Dorsey will be a keynote speaker at the highly anticipated #RECESS24 Conference! Dr. Dorsey is a…
We are excited to announce that Professor Dr. M. K. Dorsey will be a keynote speaker at the highly anticipated #RECESS24 Conference! Dr. Dorsey is a…
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🌟📢📢 Today is the day 📢📢🌟 Tune in at 3 PM EST for the launch of the Kamala Harris Climate group kickoff! I will be MC'ing a fantastic lineup of…
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