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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Colonization set the stage for the development of a community fractured along racial and economic lines, centered on resource extraction with boom-and-bust economic cycles that have reverberated to the present day. Efforts to make change could be seen by many as threatening.

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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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