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Participatory Planning

Participatory Planning

Developing the structures and processes that ensure the communities affected by dirty energy production get a real say in what the path to clean power looks like. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance

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Medición Neta

Medición Neta

Incentivar la producción de energía verde permitiendo que las familias e instituciones reduzcan su contador eléctrico, vendiendo a la empresa el exceso de energía que generan a un precio de venta al público, en lugar de a la tasa más baja pagada a los productores mayoristas. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance

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Subsidios De Eficiencia Energética

Subsidios De Eficiencia Energética

La energía limpia está al alcance de la mano al incentivar un menor consumo de energía a través de mejoras rentables (mejores bombillas, menos corrientes de aire, etc.) read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance

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Community Choice Aggregation

Community Choice Aggregation

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, a CCA is a “state policy that enables local governments to aggregate electricity demand within their jurisdictions in order to procure alternative energy supplies while maintaining the existing electricity provider for transmission and distribution services.” read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance

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Comercio Y Dividendos

Comercio Y Dividendos

Modelo que maneja la atmósfera como un bien común y hace que los contaminadores paguen una tarifa que sea otorgada como un ingreso básico garantizado o como un subsidio orientado a los recursos para compensar de forma significativa mayores costos de energía. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance

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Greening Community Institutions

Greening Community Institutions

Helping churches and other place-based, community-rooted nonprofits to upgrade energy systems and implement renewable power generation. read more
Environment & Energy Democracy & Governance
Growing Justice: Transcending racism in the food system

Growing Justice: Transcending racism in the food system

by Michelle Stearn

Transforming our system into one rooted in provision means more than just creating new organizations that aim to do well for the community; it will require that we rewrite the beliefs, exchanges, and rules of our own interactions. read more
Race & Ethnicity
Two people discussing music and art

The Mousai House: A Cooperative Vision for a New Creative Economy

by Jennifer Bryant

Bryant’s exposition of The Mousai House gives a glimpse into a thriving local economy rooted in Washington D.C. that has blossomed despite struggle, displacement, and oppression, exemplifying a rich cooperative culture that transcends the current system. read more
Democratic Ownership Race & Ethnicity
A series of EU flags in front of a modern building.

Is another Europe possible?

by Joe Guinan, Thomas Hanna

Executive director of the Next System Project Joe Guinan, along with the Democracy Collaborative’s director of research Thomas Hanna write on the rising neoliberal characteristics of the EU, the unpopularity and the problems of this shift, and the possibility of another Europe. read more
Democracy & Governance