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.’
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,
Progress under Obama had been marginal, but the shock of this moment offers us a possible ‘slingshot.’
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Trump’s election was a catastrophe. Coming on top of
San Antonio (and Houston, and Dallas, and Austin) have made important strides in building increasingly sustainable cities rich in low-polluting clean-tech technologies and developing carbon-reduction strategies. San Antonio’s CPS
