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Understanding Energy Equity

• Energy Equity Framework Energy Equity Project (2022)

• Advancing Equity in Utility Regulation Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (2021)

• Revolutionary Power; An Activist Guide to the Energy Transition Shalanda Baker (2021)

• Energy Democracy; Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions Fairchild and Weinrub (2017)

• Institute for Energy Justice

• Just Energy Policies and Practices Action Toolkit NAACP

• Just Energy Policies: Model Energy Policies Guide: NAACP (2017)

• Who Holds the Power; Demystifying and Democratizing Public Utilities Commissions The Chisolm Legacy Project

• Regulating for Energy Justice NYU Law Review Klass and Chan (2022)

• Redistributing Power to Communities in Oregon Insitute for Market Transformation (2023)

• How Local Ownership of Clean Energy Boosts Benefits, Busts Barriers, and Builds Power: Institute for Local Self-Reliance (2023)

• Designing Community Solar Programs that Promote Racial and Economic Equity: Institute for Local Self-Reliance (2020)

• Powerless in the US; How Utilities Drive Shutoffs and Energy Injustice Center for Biological Diversity (2023)

• Just Energy Transition Framework: Detroit Area Advocacy Organizations (2023)

• How Racism Manifests in Clean Energy: Sarah Golden (2024)

• A Human-Centered Approach to Distribution System Planning Angela Long (2023)

• Developing an Equity Framework for State Regulatory Decision-Making Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory (2023)

• Just Transition: A Framework for Change Climate Justice Alliance

  Community Engagement

• Spectrum of Community Engagement to Ownership Rosa Gonzalez Facilitating Power (2019)

• Community Voices in Energy Environmental Defence Fund

• Jemenez Principles for Democratic Organizing (1996)

• Community Engagement Brief: WE ACT (2022)

• Dear Policymakers: Community Engagement is Critical for Climate Policy Kristen Soares (2021)

Data, Evidence, Tools

• Amp Up the People A Practical Guide for Energy Justice Advocates in Utility Regulation Initiative for Energy Justice/ Vote Solar

• Energy Equity Project Energy Equity Mapping Tool Energy Equity Project

• Energy Savings and Impacts Scenario Tool (ESIST) Environmental Protection Agency

• Environmental Justice Screen and Mapping Tool Environmental Protection Agency

• Low-Income Energy Affordability Data (LEAD) Tool Department of Energy

• The State of Equity Measurement Urban Institute

• State and Local Planning for Energy (SLOPE) Department of Energy

• United for ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) United Way

• United for ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) United Way

• Utility Disconnection Dashboard Energy Justice Lab

Understanding of Racism and Oppression

• The Three Evils of Society Martin Luther King, Jr.

• White Supremacy Culture Characteristics Tema Okun

• The Sum of Us; What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together Heather McGhee

• White Supremacy Culture in Building Decarbonization Midwest Building Decarbonization Coalition

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents Isabel Wilkerson

• TED Talk: How to recognize your white privilege - and use it to fight inequality Peggy McIntosh

• What Does it Mean to be an Antiracist; Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LPC (2019)

• Podcast: Seeing White Scene on Radio

• So You Want to Talk About Race YouTube video Ijeoma Oluo

• Poverty, By America Matthew Desmond

• The Cycle of Socialization Bobbie Harro

• TED Talk: Why We Need to Talk About Injustice Bryan Stevenson

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack Peggy McIntosh