{"product_id":"empowering-electricity-3","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\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","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573319925942,"sku":"9780774831451","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780774831451_b481f9f4-0949-420f-8bae-ab1ebe4d5247.jpg?v=1727877163","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/empowering-electricity-3","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}