The Post Carbon Resilience Guides Local Dollars, Local Sense by Michael Shuman and Power From the People by Greg Pahl are recommended as “essential reading” in this article on local energy coops at Ecowatch. From the article: Co-op Power...
Peak oil and climate change dictate that we get society off fossil fuels, fast. But wind, solar, biofuels, hydropower each have major drawbacks compared to the versatility, ubiquity, and energy content of fossil fuels. It’s hard to see how...
Foreword by Van Jones. More than ninety percent of the electricity we use to light our communities, and nearly all the energy we use to run our cars, heat our homes, and power our factories comes from large, centralized,...