Power Play: Fueling a Renewable Energy Revolution

11/27/24 • 45 min

How do you see your relationship with energy? What costs are we willing to pay to ensure everyone has access to this life force?
For years we have been talking about renewable energy and a just transition to address the climate crisis. But what does it take to get there, what considerations haven’t we yet made? AS COP29 negotiations are going on we thought a conversation about possibilities for our energy sector would be important. On this episode, our guest, Geasean Johnson, former Research, Policy Development, and Advocacy Co-lead joins us for a talk that takes us across the different contexts of the macro and micro scales of energy and life, the social and political imperatives behind energy production, distribution, and consumption. The structures that control power, control the potentials for decarbonization, decentralization, and democratization of our energy sector. This is Power Play.

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