PCI Board Member Chuck Collins’ action against a planned oil pipeline was reported in this article at Bloomberg. From the article: Chuck Collins wasn’t thinking about his heating bill when he surrendered to police after painting a day-glow orange...
Runaway CEO pay at the 30 largest U.S. public fossil fuel corporations rewards short-term actions, with disastrous results for the world’s climate, a new report finds. CEOs at big oil, gas and coal corporations are rewarded for a short-term...
Talking Resilience is a series of interviews with thought leaders and practitioners, discussing how to define, practice, and evaluate community resilience. Chuck Collins is a board member at Post Carbon Institute, and senior scholar at the Institute for Policy...
Post Carbon Board Member Chuck Collins’ recent creative protest against a dangerous gas pipeline was reported in the Jamaica Plain News. From the article: JP residents Andrée Zaleska and Chuck Collins carried out the protest garbed in road-worker gear....
As someone concerned about inequality, what would it take for you to support the Olympics in Boston in 2024?” That is the question that journalist Neil Swidey asked me for his article that appears today in the...
It has been a tough couple of years in the effort to unite labor, community, and environmental groups, an alliance that has always been strained. The extractive energy sector—coal, gas, oil—has historically had strong union representation and well-paying jobs....
By Chuck Collins, Polly Hoppin, originally published by Yes! Magazine In 1996, Guatemalan immigrant Myra Vargas and her Venezuelan husband Ernesto bought J&P Cleaners, a neighborhood dry cleaner in Boston. But something always smelled funny. “The chemicals we used—we...