Mike Sandler is a climate change and sustainability professional with experience working for nonprofits and government. In 2001 Mike co-founded the Center for Climate Protection based in Sonoma County, California. Non-profits he worked at include Community Clean Water Institute, California Interfaith Power & Light. He assisted local governments in reducing greenhouse gas emissions while at the Sonoma County Regional Climate Protection Authority. Inspired by Peter Barnes and Richard Douthwaite, he spent several years advocating for revenues in the carbon market mechanisms of California’s Global Warming Solutions Act to be returned back to the public as a per capita dividend or share. He has also written on green monetary reform and basic income. Some of his work on carbon pricing may be found at www.carbonshare.org.
Food Policy, Sustainability, and Basic Income – a U.S. Perspective
The U.S. Congress will be considering renewing the Farm Bill before the current authorization expires on September 30, 2018. As Feasta members commemorate 20 years of innovative policy ideas, sustainable food policy will continue to be a top priority.
May 30, 2018
Help Us, Strategic Climate Communicators, You’re Our Only Hope
Strategic climate communicators still don’t know what will be successful. The extent of our failure is of Biblical proportions and continuing. In the meantime, everyone should do everything, all the time, even if it means finding motivation by thinking about an uninhabitable world.
July 31, 2017
Who Will Carry Big Dividend Checks at the People’s Climate March?
There are many challenges in communicating about climate change and its best solution, a carbon price. It needs to be simple, allay economic fears, and convey universal fairness.
September 15, 2014
When Philanthropists Give Directly, Are Climate Dividends Next?
Can we help the poorest people in the world by just giving them money?
May 16, 2014
Use Your Climate Credit to Ask for More
In the next month, millions of Californians will receive their first "climate credit."
April 16, 2014
State Senator’s Proposal Moves from Cap & Trade to Fee & Rebate
A win in California for a new fuel tax could shift the national conversation, encourage other states to try it, and give major boost to the "fee and dividend" position at the national level.
February 28, 2014