Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1610918517 ISBN 13 : 9781610918510

Editeur : Island Press, 2017

Synopsis

A global energy war is underway. It is man versus nature, fossil fuel versus clean energy, the haves versus the have-nots, and, fundamentally, an extractive economy versus a regenerative economy. The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is that the massive burning of gas, oil, and coal is having a cataclysmic impact on our atmosphere and climate, and depleting earth s natural resources, including its land, food, fresh water and biodiversity.

These climate and environmental impacts are particularly magnified and debilitating for low-income communities and communities of colour that live closest to toxic sites, are disproportionately impacted by high incidences of asthma, cancer and rates of morbidity and mortality, and lack the financial resources to adapt to climate impacts.

The energy democracy movement tenders a response and joins the environmental and climate movements with a broader call for progressive change. Energy democracy is a way to frame the international struggle of working people, low income communities, and communities of colour to take control of energy resources from the energy establishment and use those resources to empower their communities, literally providing energy, economically, and politically. Energy democracy more important than ever as climate advocates and those representing rights for the underserved enter a shocking political reality in the U.S.

This volume brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives. This diversity is bound together by a common operating frame: that the global fight to save the planet, to conserve and restore our natural resources to be life-sustaining, must fully engage community residents and must change the larger economy to be sustainable, democratic, and just. The contributors offer their perspectives and approaches to climate and clean energy from rural Mississippi, to the South Bronx, to Californian immigrant and refugee communities, to urban and semi-rural communities in the Northeast. Taken together, the contributions in this book show what an alternative, democratised energy future can look like, and will inspire others to take up the struggle to build the energy democracy movement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Denise Fairchild is president and CEO of Emerald Cities Collaborative, a national non-profit organization of business, labor, and community groups dedicated to climate resilience strategies that produce environmental, economic, and equity outcomes.

Al Weinrub is coordinator of the Local Clean Energy Alliance (LCEA), the Bay Area's largest clean energy coalition. The LCEA promotes the equitable development and democratization of local renewable energy resources as key to addressing climate change and building sustainable and resilient communities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Island Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1610918517
• ISBN 13: 9781610918510
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Fairchild Denise, Weinrub Al
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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