electricity cooperatives – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png electricity cooperatives – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 Too Much Combustion, Too Little Fire https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/too-much-combustion-too-little-fire/ Mon, 30 Dec 2019 15:53:35 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/too-much-combustion-too-little-fire/

by Kris De Decker

The fire – which we have used in our homes for over 400,000 years – remains the most versatile and sustainable household technology that humanity has ever known. The fire alone provided what we now get through a combination of modern appliances such as the oven and cooking hob, heating system, lights, refrigerator, freezer, hot water boiler, tumble dryer, and television. Unlike these newer technologies, the fire had no need for a central infrastructure to make it work, and it could be built locally from readily available materials.]]>

by Kris De Decker

The fire – which we have used in our homes for over 400,000 years – remains the most versatile and sustainable household technology that humanity has ever known. The fire alone provided what we now get through a combination of modern appliances such as the oven and cooking hob, heating system, lights, refrigerator, freezer, hot water boiler, tumble dryer, and television. Unlike these newer technologies, the fire had no need for a central infrastructure to make it work, and it could be built locally from readily available materials.

]]> An Electric-Power Giant is Poised to Fail https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/electric-power-giant-poised-fail/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:31:25 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/electric-power-giant-poised-fail/ by Ed Marston

David battling Goliath is a cliché. But how else to describe the struggle between a rural electric co-op and its powerful supplier of electricity?]]> by Ed Marston

David battling Goliath is a cliché. But how else to describe the struggle between a rural electric co-op and its powerful supplier of electricity?

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