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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Multiple generations of residents in Del Norte County have now suffered from widespread childhood obesity, low educational achievement, high teen drinking rates, poor health outcomes, and other social problems linked to high rates of trauma, unemployment, and poverty. 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

This is largely a product of a school of economic thinking from the University of Chicago that gained traction beginning in the 1960s and 1970s, which believed regulation was antithetical to market competition and “economic liberty.” See also Deborah A. Sunter, Sergio Castellanos, and Daniel M. people-powered-energy-model/.

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