Energy Democracy - Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext The near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists is that the massive burning of gas, oil, and coal is having cataclysmic impacts on our atmosphere and climate. These climate and environmental impacts are particularly magnified and debilitating for low-income communities and communities of color. Energy democracy tenders a response and joins the environmental and climate movement with broader movements for social and economic change in this country and around the world. Energy Democracy brings together racial, cultural, and generational perspectives to show what an alternative, democratized energy future can look like. The book will inspire others to take up the struggle to build the energy democracy movement. Zusammenfassung This urgent book features cutting edge! diverse thinkers in the energy democracy movement.

Product details

• Authors: Denise Fairchild, Denise (EDT)/ Weinrub Fairchild, Denise Weinrub Fairchild
• Assisted by: Denise Fairchild (Editor), Al Weinrub (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781610918510
• ISBN: 978-1-61091-851-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, ENERGY, SCIENCE / Energy, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Energy resources, Social discrimination and social justice