100 days after Maria, nearly half of island still without power.
100 days after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, grassroots efforts to restore full access to the island’s electricity, water, and medical infrastructure remain critical, especially in the wake of the Trump administration’s demonstrated neglect of and disrespect for Puerto Rican suffering.
Here are a few updated options for supporting ongoing grassroots- and community-led recovery efforts, which are animated by a larger vision of a just recovery and transition.
#JustRecovery campaign is led by a formidable alliance of fierce long-time organizers for climate, racial, and gender justice, including Climate Justice Alliance, UPROSE (United Puerto Rican Organization of Sunset Park), It Takes Roots, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, LEAP, and Grassroots International.
The Sierra Club’s Maria recovery efforts promise that 100% of funds donated will go directly to organizations working on the ground in areas impacted by the hurricane.
Solarizing Puerto Rico, anyone? Check out this compelling post by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, which calls for donations to its Puerto Rico Emergency Solar Energy Fund, which would provide solar-power generators, lanterns, and chargers to the island as “the only short-term prospect for getting electricity to people who desperately require it for their most basic household needs.”
Deceleration Founder/Managing Editor Greg Harman is an independent journalist who has written about environmental health and justice issues since the late 1990s.
For our future security and happiness it is imperative to both discover the root of our legitimate grievances and resist being manipulated by falsehoods and racism.
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Almost a decade after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, the island’s first urban solar microgrid has become a model not just in transitioning away from US-imposed fossil fuels, but in putting ‘energy–the power to do work–into the hands of the people … for better living.’
Jonathan Rosenblum’s new movement history—and valuable primer in municipalist solutions—delivers insight and inspiration from successes in Seattle, where people have forced local government to put the needs of people and planet before profits.
Founder Greg Harman speaks with Executive Editor Marisol Cortez & Alternative Futures correspondent Syris Valentine about the year behind, the year ahead, and where Deceleration fits.
Rising heat, billion-dollar disasters, and punishing pollution linked to fossil fuels are responsible for millions of deaths per year and threatening the habitability of the planet. So what do we win in this war for oil?
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