S1 E0: Community renewables introduction
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In this episode, we talk about the shift taking place, thanks party to Fridays for Future, from finding the right price for climate action to an ethical argument. Community renewables can benefit from this shift because community energy might not always be the cheapest -- but we don't have to do what's cheapest. And without community renewables, climate action will be more difficult. The first time someone said "we have ten years to act": https://apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0 The first time someone said 2.0°C might be the goal: http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/365/1/WP-75-063.pdf Quote from Tim Carney from this podcast: https://www.vox.com/podcasts/2020/2/24/21147042/tim-carney-donald-trump-white-america-the-ezra-klein-show https://pca.st/episode/064292b6-635c-47df-82c2-8547ed09b93f?t=2639 The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Transformation_(book)?oldformat=true Produced by Germany’s Renewable Energy Agency (the AEE) for the Local Community Renewables Project (LECo). The Project is funded by the European Union’s Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014 – 2020, which is supported by the European Regional Development Fund.
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