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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

A regional backbone organization— Wild Rivers Community Foundation , an affiliate of Humboldt Area Foundation—was tapped to manage the initiative in partnership with community leaders and TCE program officers and staff. Infrastructure, expertise, and knowledge are necessary for growing community power.

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Movements Are Leading the Way: Reenvisioning and Redesigning Laws and Governance for a Just Energy Utility Transition

NonProfit Quarterly

27 Building on this research, Amitav Ghosh, in his book The Nutmeg’s Curse , notes that renewables are more inherently democratic. Movement collaboratives such as the EDP are highlighting the contradictions of private ownership, 29 while organizations such as Our Power, in Maine, Public Power NY, and Reclaim Our Power!, one-voice/.

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