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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. Energy is increasingly managed as part of a broader commons, where resources and land are shared and mineral inputs to renewable energy and storage like lithium and cobalt are minimized.

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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For this reason, The California Endowment (TCE) chose Del Norte and the Yurok and Tolowa Dee-ni’ Tribal lands as one of 14 communities included in Building Healthy Communities (BHC), a 10-year-long initiative aiming to improve health outcomes among the most vulnerable and marginalized communities in the state.