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The Fisherwomen of the Saloum Delta

energydemocracy — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 07:57:30 +0000

Thanks to a training programme to strengthen women’s leadership capacities and management skills, the fisher women now have seats on executive committees and municipal councils. Yet more is needed to make the local and state authorities address their concerns around overfishing and the fishmeal factories. Nevertheless, a cultural shift is under way, as action research…

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კოოპერატივები ხელს უწყობს გენდერულ თანასწორობას და ებრძვის ენერგეტიკულ სიღარიბეს საქართველოს სოფლებში

energydemocracy — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:24:45 +0000

ამ ახალი ტექნოლოგიების წარმოების, პოპულარიზაციისა და მონტაჟის მიზნით შეიქმნა ოთხი სათემო ენერგეტიკული კოოპერატივი. ეს კოოპერატივები დემოკრატიულად იმართება მათი წევრების მიერ. ისინი ხელს უწყობს ქალთა გაძლიერებას ლიდერთა ტრენინგის, გადაწყვეტილების მიმღები პოზიციებისათვის გენდერული კვოტებისა და ზოგადად, პროექტის მიდგომაში ქალთა საზრუნავის ინტეგრირების გზით. 2021 წლისთვის ფუნქციონირებდა 1000-ზე მეტი მზის წყალგამაცხელებელი და 300 ენერგოეფექტური ღუმელი. ამას ცოტა ხნის წინ კიდევ…

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The regions of Imereti, Samegrelo, Samtskhe Javakheti and Shida Kartli

energydemocracy — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:10:00 +0000

Four community-based energy cooperatives have been set up to produce, promote and install these new technologies. These cooperatives are democratically governed by their members, encourage women empowerment through leadership training, gender quotas for the decision-making positions and generally integrating women’s concerns in the project approach. By 2021, more than 1,000 solar water heaters and 300…

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Tampere: engaging housing co-ops and residents in the drive towards carbon neutrality

energydemocracy — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 16:02:00 +0000

Background Tampere lies in south-west Finland and is home to some 235,000 people, which makes it the third biggest city in the country. Being the first industrialized Finnish city, Tampere was always at the forefront of technical innovation: electric lightbulbs, for instance, were already widely used here shortly after their invention in the 19th century.…

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EnergÉtica Cooperative challenges energy poverty by supplying clean energy

energydemocracy — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 11:43:13 +0000

Transforming energy systems from the bottom up EnergÉtica was born in the decade of the 2010s in Valladolid, despite significant barriers such as the absence of a relevant cooperative movement, a scarce associative tradition and the perception that energy issues were far from social priorities. The energy issue was finally put on the social agenda…

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Earthworker Cooperative

energydemocracy — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:30:47 +0000

Fighting for climate and social justice The Earthworker project was set up by trade unionists who were also environmentalists, and who realised they could use their social weight to help the state of Victoria undertake a ‘just transition’ to a low-carbon economy, as well as empower fossil-fuel dependent regions like the Latrobe Valley community through…

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The Belgian community that built renewable energy for the masses

energydemocracy — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:42:23 +0000

Meet community energy pioneer Dirk Vansintjan, co-founder of Ecopower, from Rotselaar, Belgium. It all started around the kitchen table of a small kitchen in a co-housing project, 30 years ago, in a small village in Flanders, northern Belgium. Dirk Vansintjan, an activist for many years, realised that…

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Som Energia, Catalonia (Spain)

energydemocracy — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:46:16 +0000

To this end, the organisation founded a green energy supplier by the same name in 2011. Seven years later the cooperative counts more than 35.000 members from all over Spain and 55.000 contracts. Every member can share its membership with 5 people so they can have a contract and get energy from the cooperative, without…

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COOPELESCA, Costa Rica

energydemocracy — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 09:03:06 +0000

Electricity from renewable sources Since its foundation in 1949, the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE, Costa Rican Electricity Institute), a state-owned enterprise active in the fields of energy and telecommunications, has evolved as one of the pillar institutions of this welfare state. In March 2015, the Costa Rican government announced that the country had gone…

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Bristol, United Kingdom

energydemocracy — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 08:34:27 +0000

Bristol is also a divided city, with tackling inequality at the top of the Mayor’s 2015 manifesto commitment. It is a port whose historic wealth is associated with the transatlantic slave trade, and a place of arrival for Afro-Caribbean people in the 1950s. In the 1980s, racial tension erupted into riots. Much of the environmental…

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