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Revolutionary Power: Excerpt

By Shalanda H. Baker, Resilience.org

From Revolutionary Power by Shalanda H. Baker. Copyright © 2021 by the author. Reproduced by permission of Island Press, Washington, D.C. Shalanda H. Baker Published by Island Press https://islandpress.org/books/revolutionary-power  A Just Energy System as a Civil Right We must view the battle for the design of the new, clean energy system through the same lens we use to view broader struggles for economic and civil rights. As environmental justice advocates have shown, the environmental racism faced in communities like Port Arthur leads directly to poor health outcomes, and we see similar patterns repeating themselves in the clean energy economy. Our work today, in this moment of transformation of our energy system to one built on cleaner energy, is to reveal the links between the design of the energy system, as effectuated through a series of energy policy decisions, and nearly every aspect of life. The energy system routinely sacrifices Brown,...

  • January 28, 2021
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A Plug for Electric Vehicles

By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion

The electrification of the transportation sector is not just about the environment. It is about the global competitiveness of US industry. To compete abroad requires the ability and capacity to compete domestically.

  • January 29, 2021
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Will Technology Solve Climate Change?

By Richard Heinberg, Resilience.org

What if we actually planned to reduce energy usage significantly while revamping the economy to promote happiness and well-being? Then it would be far easier to replace our remaining energy usage with renewable sources.

  • January 27, 2021
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Rondout Riverport 2040: Part 1

By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org

Rondout Riverport 2040 offers the communities of Kingston and Esopus, New York, a visionary template and extraordinary opportunity for remaking and transforming the Rondout Creek and Hudson River Working Waterfront over the next 20 years.

  • January 26, 2021
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Will the sun soon set on concrete?

By Bart Hawkins Kreps, An Outside Chance

At the mention of our “fossil economy” or “fossil civilization”, most of us probably think immediately of “fossil fuels”. But as Mary Soderstrom’s recent book points out, not only our energy supply but also our most important building material has origins in fossilized ancient life.

  • January 26, 2021
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The Energy Bulletin Weekly 25 January 2021

By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin

The course of the coronavirus continued to roil the oil markets last week. After a 10 percent gain since the beginning of the year, oil reversed last week as new outbreaks of the virus accompanied by recent lockdowns appeared worldwide.

  • January 25, 2021
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Activists Occupy Site of Proposed Lithium Mine in Nevada

By Kollibri terre Sonnenblume, Macska Moksha Press

Thacker Pass is the site of a proposed lithium mine that would impact nearly 5700 acres—close to nine square miles—and which would include a giant open pit mine over two square miles in size, a sulfuric acid processing plant, and piles of tailings.

  • January 21, 2021
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The Energy Bulletin Weekly 18 January 2021

By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin

Prices, which hit their highest in nearly a year the previous week, posted their first weekly decline of 2021 last week.

  • January 18, 2021
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