Energy Democracy: Clean Energy for Everyone

April 2020 HumanistsMN Community Gathering
Energy Democracy: Clean Energy for Everyone

Timothy DenHerder-Thomas, co-founder and General Manager of Cooperative Energy Futures, makes the case for a powerful solar model that ensures clean energy is available to everyone and provides leverage to marginalized communities. Elizabeth Dickinson, a community activist and board member with Community Power MN, discusses ways St. Paul 350 is working at a local level to promote energy democracy and renewable energy.

What does it mean for a community to own and control its own energy? In this talk, DenHerder-Thomas will make the case for a powerful solar model that ensures clean energy is available to everyone and provides leverage to marginalized communities. He will also demonstrate how to turn the seemingly overwhelming challenge of climate change into an opportunity to build power, connection, justice, and a right relationship to ecosystems that sustain us.

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All we need to do is to satisfy the thirst for energy without destroying the environment.
It is a difficult task, which surprisingly has a simple solution.