04 Dec 2023

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The Complicated Equities of Localized Energy

This post is cross-posted at Legal Planet. For many decades, most people in the United States have obtained their electricity from a large investor-owned utility company (IOU). They had no real choice. Much of U.S. energy law was built on...

04 Dec 2023 7:00pm GMT

02 Nov 2023

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Accessioning Joy

We need your help, and it should be fun. But first, some scene setting. It is summer 2023, but it could be last summer, or the next, or the one after that. People are dying in droves from unprecedented heat,...

02 Nov 2023 5:10pm GMT

01 Nov 2023

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Inequity, Excess Commercialization, and Overconsumption in the Anthropocene: Two Very Modest Regulatory Proposals

Scottish author Alistair McIntosh, reflecting on the climate challenge that our communities collectively face, sagely wrote in "Where Now 'Hell and High Water'?" that "consumerism is a false satisifier-just another form of addiction that masks the emptiness." He called upon...

01 Nov 2023 5:00pm GMT