Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
The energy strategy centering corporate profit-making has failed, but we can turn the tide and create a people-centered politics for the public good as a pathway to affordability.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
“If we’re not prepared to govern, we’re not prepared to win.” -Movement Generation
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
Unions, bargaining for the common good, can be a powerful actor and a model for others to organize to reclaim decision-making over energy prices and systems.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
People that can turn to each other for support, even in the poorest neighborhoods, can create powerful buffer against energy and climate disruptions and build political power.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
Energy affordability is a multi-level crisis that requires addressing systemic costs equitably through adoption of grid resilience standards and strategies, starting with the most climate-vulnerable and energy-burdened communities.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
The variability of wind and solar can be an advantage for energy consumers who can turn their power as energy users into savings.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
Energy affordability is not just about the cost of living but also about wealth inequality, racialized exclusion, and institutional mistrust, which require a deliberate strategy toward shared prosperity.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
Energy affordability is not about not having enough energy, but democratically deciding how much is enough as a society.
Affording Our Energy Future: Perspectives to Power Change
Energy affordability is as much a feature of culture as of technology; we need a reorientation towards energy commons.