Author: David L. OstendorfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Rural America in an Age of Energy Transition
Author: David L. OstendorfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Rural Renaissance
Author: L. Michelle MoorePublisher: Island Press
ISBN: 1642831964
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
For decades, we've heard that local, renewable power is on the horizon, and that cheaper technologies will revolutionize our energy system. Michelle Moore has spent her career proving that this opportunity is already here--and that any community, no matter how small, can build their own clean energy future. In Rural Renaissance, Moore describes five pathways to clean power in rural America and strategies for building it, including energy efficiency, renewable power, resilience (including microgrids and battery storage), the electrification of transportation, and finally, broadband internet. This accessible guide offers a vision of thriving rural communities where clean power is the spark that leads to greater investment, vitality, and equity.
Our Energy Future
Author: Don E. AlbrechtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317666194
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Rapid changes in energy production and consumption are having major socioeconomic implications for the communities of rural America. Technological developments in horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) nuclear energy, biofuels, wind and solar energy have significantly increased domestic energy production and the production of energy from renewable sources has encouraged energy efficiency. Yet, severe concerns persist and policy decisions on energy issues will have profound implications for all Americans and rural communities where consequences are experienced most directly. Thus, the time is appropriate for a careful exploration of the socioeconomic implications of our energy future. The purpose of this book is to present timely and scientifically sound information on energy policy, socioeconomic aspects of energy production and consumption with a focus on rural areas. The book presents the latest research by top scholars with the goal of clarifying options and providing the basis for informed policy decisions.
Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America
Author: Don E. AlbrechtPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1607329514
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America, Don E. Albrecht visits rural communities that have traditionally been dependent on a variety of goods-producing industries, explores what has happened as employment in these industries has declined, and provides a path by which they can build a vibrant twenty-first-century economy. Albrecht describes how structural economic changes led rural voters to support Donald Trump in the 2016 election and why his policies will not relieve the economic problems of rural residents. Trump’s promises to restore rural industrial jobs simply cannot be fulfilled because his policies do not address the base cause for this job loss—technological change, the most significant factor being the machine replacement of human labor in the production process. Bringing a personal understanding of the effects on rural communities and residents, Albrecht focuses each chapter on a community that has traditionally been economically dependent on a single industry—manufacturing, coal mining, agriculture, logging, oil and gas production, and tourism—and the consequences of losing that industry. He also lays out a plan for rebuilding America’s rural areas and creating an economically vibrant country with a more sustainable future. The rural economy cannot return to the past as it was structured and instead must look to a new future. Building a Resilient Twenty-First-Century Economy for Rural America describes the source of economic concerns in rural America and offers real ways to address them. It will be vital to students, scholars, practitioners, community leaders, politicians, and policy makers concerned with rural community development.
Caught in the Crosswinds
Author: Elizabeth Anne GribkoffPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fighting climate change will require a fundamental shift away from the fossil fuels that still provide most of America's electricity. In most states, county and local boards have to approve renewable energy projects. But despite the local economic benefits that renewable energy projects can bring, communities around the country have started saying no to wind and solar farms. Political leanings alone do not explain opposition to renewable energy projects, as most wind farms have been built in rural, red areas.
Electricity for Rural America
Author: Electrifying the Rural American West
Author: Leah S. GlaserPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 080322219X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Most Americans consider electricity essential to their lives, but the historic disparity of its distribution and use challenges notions of a democratic lifestyle, economy, and culture. By the beginning of the twentieth century, substations, wires, towers, and poles had followed migrants westward as the industrial era?s most prominent symbols of progress and power. When private companies controlled power production, electrical transmission, and distribution without regulation, they argued that it was not ?economically feasible? for many ethnic and rural communities to access ?the grid.? Yet, government agents continued to advocate electrical living through federal programs that reached into and across farming communities and American Indian reservations to homogenize and assimilate them through urban technologies. In the end, however, rural electrification was a locally directed process, subject to local and regional issues, concerns, and parameters. ø Electrifying the Rural American West provides a social and cultural history of rural electrification in the West. Using three case studies in Arizona, Leah S. Glaser details how, when examined from the local level, the process of electrification illustrates the impact of technology on places, economies, and lifestyles in the diverse communities and landscapes of the American West. As today?s policy-makers advocate building more power lines as a tool to bring democracy to faraway places and ?smart grids? to deliver renewable energy, they would do well to review the historical relationship of Americans with electronic power production, distribution, and regulation.
Energy and Rural Development
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and ApplicationsPublisher:
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Electricity for Rural America
Author: Clayton BrownPublisher: Praeger
ISBN: 0313214786
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Energy In The Transition From Rural Subsistence
Author: Miguel S. WionczekPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429724934
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
For the half of the world's population still dependent on wood and other traditional fuels for basic cooking and heating needs, a serious supply crisis is emerging: forests are disappearing and population pressure on other energy sources is mounting. This book analyzes the energy problems of those caught in the trap of rural subsistence and explores the role energy might play in the transition away from subsistence. It includes eight specially commissioned studies of different developing countries and a review of the small-scale energy technologies presently available for rural use.