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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. 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

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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