Reclaiming power
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The rapid rise of community renewable energy and why the added benefits of local, clean power can help accelerate transition
Tag: clean energy transition
Just Transition: Time for a Rethink?
By Rosa Martínez Rodríguez, Green European Journal
There will be social, cultural and relational repercussions that must be accounted for in order to uphold the central tenet of just transition: to leave none behind.
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!
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.
Build small, think big
By Phillip O’Sullivan, Red Pepper
Proponents of community energy, or energy cooperatives, envision a future in which small-scale renewable energy infrastructure is owned and used by local communities.
Resources for a better Future: Renewable energy
By Alf Hornborg, Uneven Earth
A better way to define technology is to acknowledge that it is a global social phenomenon and a moral and political question rather than simply one of engineering.
What the Frack? Why Waste Political Capital on a Pyrrhic Victory?
By Joel Stronberg, Civil Notion
These days American politics are a little like Russian nesting dolls—there are stories, within stories, within stories.
Comparative impact of nuclear and renewables on CO2 emissions
By Philippe Gauthier, Resilience.org
Countries which are heavily invested in nuclear energy remain higher CO2 emitters, on average, than countries which have invested at the same level in renewable energy. This is the main finding of a study recently published in the journal Nature Energy.
Wind and solar are 30-50% cheaper than thought, admits UK government
By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief
Electricity generated from wind and solar is 30-50% cheaper than previously thought, according to newly published UK government figures.
Energy Basics: The Electricity Business and Power Markets
By Chris Nelder, Energy Transition Show
We hope these episodes will give you a bit more familiarity with the terms and concepts of energy, and help to fill in some of the knowledge that you were never offered in school.
Badvertising – is changing the advertising industry the next step in speeding transition?
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
There are new calls to apply the lessons learned from the successful campaign to end tobacco advertising to ‘high carbon’ products and lifestyles, and to ‘stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency‘.
Governments Must Support a Just Transition for Oil Workers and their Communities
By Sandeep Pai, Ensia
As demand for fossil fuel plummets, education, job creation and other support is critical to save millions of oil industry employees and their communities from collapse.