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Review: Shalanda H. Baker, Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition

By Jane K. Brundage, Resilience.org

Shalanda Baker’s Revolutionary Power: An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition (Island Press, January 2021) presents readers with quite a ride! Storyteller, Activist, Law Professor, and (daringly) self-described lover of the Planet, Shalanda Baker covers all the bases and generously shares them in this heady work dedicated to directing the energy transition away from a narrow technical focus in favor of a strategy grounded on environmental and social justice and centering Black, Brown, people of color, and Indigenous people. Baker argues that to achieve optimal results from an energy policy for the ‘electrification of everything’, policymaking must involve the marginalized people who have suffered the worst impacts of the fossil-fuel economy – air pollution with the resulting ill health and now the most severe impacts of extreme weather as the climate crisis accelerates. In recent comments, Jason Grumet, president of the Bipartisan Policy Center, observed that two paths now lie...

  • February 1, 2021
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Harnessing People Power to Protect Alaska’s Last Remaining Wilderness

By Breanna Draxler, YES! magazine

A new social movement is bringing together Indigenous activists and TikTok creators to prevent drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. January has seen major progress toward protecting the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, thanks to the organizing power of three distinct communities—Indigenous activists, TikTok creators, and the makers of an unfinished documentary film—that came together toward a common goal. In December, with an oil lease sale looming and the Trump administration trying to push through a seismic study for oil exploration before leaving the White House, the pressure was on for environmental groups and Gwich’in and Iñupiat activists who have been working to stave off fossil fuel companies for decades. “To be honest, it’s not easy going into places, talking to people that will never understand how spiritually and culturally connected we are to our land, to our water, and to our animals,” says Bernadette Demientieff, the executive director of the Gwich’in Steering Committee. “But I...

  • February 1, 2021
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A Conservative for Our Time

By John de Graaf, Resilience.org

I have come to believe that Udall was actually in many ways, a conservative whose creative ideas may help point America’s way forward in a turbulent, polarized, and destructive time. Above all, Udall was devoted to conserving the land and the beauty of the American landscape.

  • February 1, 2021
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Rondout Riverport 2040: Part 2

By Andrew Willner, Resilience.org

Rondout Riverport 2040 will serve as an empowering example to our bioregion and our country – demonstrating the viability of ethical livelihoods and teaching beneficial sustainable technologies that do minimal socio-environmental harm; methodologies that foster self-reliance and promote Slow Tech hands-on work practices.

  • January 29, 2021
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Bringing Community to the Table in Climate Adaptation

By Leslie MacKenzie, Transition US

Transition Longfellow connected climate change to the things our neighbors love and care about the most – their children’s health, their chickens and vegetable gardens, their homes, and favorite businesses.

  • January 28, 2021
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Revolutionary Power: Excerpt

By Shalanda H. Baker, Resilience.org

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.

  • January 28, 2021
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Revisiting the Commons

By Derrick Gentry, The Owl Light News

As more and more of us are turned on to the idea of small-scale self-reliance and seek to build resilient local communities, one of the most serious challenges we face is basic access to affordable land.

  • January 28, 2021
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Recovering from COVID

By Vicki Robin, Resilience.org

Many may feel this way now as we emerge from Covid and the Trump presidency - still somewhat skittish after 4 years of waking to ever crazier tweets, threats, and lies – yet cautiously hopeful.

  • January 28, 2021
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Martin Luther King’s vision of an interconnected world is more relevant than ever

By Arthur Romano, Waging Nonviolence

King’s recognition of profound interconnectivity demanded that human security be grounded in the quality of our relationships, the systems we have in place to support people when things get hard, and by creating international frameworks to guarantee equity and human dignity over profit.

  • January 27, 2021
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