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

NonProfit Quarterly

Moreover, a significant proportion of utility governing boards comprises utility workers and frontline community members. Although established in a more progressive era, when the public interest held more sway, microeconomic and market values have since come to dominate utility governance.

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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. It was the best approach we knew at the time for transforming systems and policies to improve health equity.