Francis Eanes is a visiting assistant professor of environmental studies at Bates College, where his research and teaching focus broadly on food, housing, and land use in participatory urban planning.
Winning a Green New Deal will require assembling a broad coalition rooted in the working class. To build that coalition and massively roll back energy usage, we can’t overlook a universal energy efficiency and conservation program for buildings, especially our homes.
It’s tempting for students and academic workers to hope for a quick “return to normal” at colleges and universities. But normality was misery for an increasing number of us.