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Local Electric Cooperatives as Tools for Equity and Healing
January 25 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
January 25th – 8pm ET/ 7 CT/ 6 MT/ 5 PT / 4 AK
Hear from Emilie Bouvier, Director of Organizing in the Minneapolis Area Synod, share on experiences working with rural electric cooperatives as an exciting place to gain some traction and move the needle on climate and equity goals.
(Zoom link will be sent to all on Good Green News list the day before)
Resources she expects to share (please bring some of your own to the Connections “Call”):
- A Minnesota resource on energy democracy and rural electric cooperative (check out the report card project): https://mnlocalenergyproject.org/
- A national policy coalition (hyper-local work with Rural Electric Cooperatives, garnering federal dollars through the infrastructure investments to support the clean energy transitions): https://www.ruralpower.us/
- A more “inclusive financing” approach to energy efficiency:
https://www.communitypowermn.org/what_is_inclusive_financing