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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

But for both of us, this place, where the redwoods meet the sea was home, the community where we were each raising a daughter (both with the nickname Ani). Statistically, our girls were more likely to drop out of high school or become teen parents than they would be to graduate high school prepared for university.