{"product_id":"empowering-electricity","title":"Empowering Electricity","description":"\u003cp\u003eCanada is known for being an energy-producing nation – with much attention being paid to the Alberta tar sands and their large carbon footprint. This book looks at a very different part of the Canadian energy sector: the hundreds of renewable energy co-ops that have sprung up across the nation. These co-ops are democratically structured, community-based organizations that use sun, wind, rivers, tides, and plant and animal waste as sources of local power generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmpowering Electricity\u003c\/em\u003e offers an illuminating analysis of these co-ops within the context of larger debates over climate change, renewable electricity policy, sustainable community development, and provincial power-sector ownership. It looks at the conditions that led to this new wave of co-operative development, examines their form and location, and shines a light on the promises and challenges accompanying their development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Julie L. MacArthur (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":46293751169282,"sku":"9780774831444","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0747\/0012\/8514\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7b0f4d8a-bed6-4e74-9b7e-83aa269231ae.jpg?v=1750972341","url":"https:\/\/www.downtowncomics.ca\/products\/empowering-electricity","provider":"Downtown Comics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}