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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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Zschadraß’ Ländliches Leben, Germany

energydemocracy — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 06:58:12 +0000

Summary In the midst of a seemingly rich Germany, numerous towns, villages and rural districts are broke. The pathway to insolvency typically includes the following steps. Over the course of ten to twenty years, a community heaps up debt because revenue is permanently too low. To raise funds, towns then sell assets and establish public-private…

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