“… The Jemez principles would later ground principles of the Just Transition Alliance, the Indigenous Environmental Network, and the Climate Justice Alliance. In today’s parlance, Bravo qualifies as a movement O.G., so in the current rush to define “just transition,” he gets asked a lot why the Just Transition Alliance never copyrighted the term.
‘Because we don’t believe in that,’ he says. ‘We believe just transition is as open-source now as it’s ever been. But we do want people to know it didn’t start today.’ …”