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A New (Renewable) Energy Tyranny

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Effi on istock There are two very different (and antagonistic) renewable energy models: the utility-centered, centralized energy model—the existing dominant one—and the community-centered, decentralized energy model—what energy justice advocates have been pushing for.

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Zero-Problem Philanthropy

Stanford Social Innovation Review

CNN recently reported that “California has spent billions to fight homelessness. Massive investments in climate solutions such as carbon markets, CO2 sequestration, and energy alternatives had no material effect on slowing global warming. Real progress seems elusive. The problem has gotten worse.”

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Supporting Diverse Entrepreneurs for Climate Justice

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Easing the Energy Transition. Even though the coal industry has provided work and tax revenues to people in these areas, some Indigenous groups are looking to help drive the shift toward renewable energy. Its focus was on entering new markets and Isaac was looking for connections to authorities in transmission and energy planning.

Energy 111
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Economic Justice: Nonprofit Leaders Speak Out

NonProfit Quarterly

Often, the very same nonprofit that is advocating for social justice policy may pay its own workers poverty-level wages. It remains encapsulated in a rigid legal straitjacket that limits its ability to react with agility to meet pressing social and economic needs and opportunities, such as the upcoming wave of solar energy development.

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: A Conversation with Vincent Bevins

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. If the question is not of desire, energy, or will, then perhaps the question is about tactics.

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Where Does the Money Go in Environmental Grantmaking?

NonProfit Quarterly

Issues related to justice, race, inequalities, affordability, and poverty are much less likely to be funded.” “Conservation” was a major keyword in many of the summaries—indicating that the issue is a topic funders are highly interested in funding.

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Finding Love in a Hopeless Place: A Conversation with Malaika Jabali

NonProfit Quarterly

From the roots of racial capitalism to the psychic toll of poverty, from resource wars to popular uprisings, the interviews in this column focus on how to write about the myriad causes of oppression and the organized desire for a better world. They are making plans that are keeping homeless communities from having housing.