Race and Renewable Energy:
Challenges and Opportunities Transitioning to the Renewable Energy Economy
Limited economic and social opportunities have resulted in disadvantages for communities of color. With a correlation of low-income neighborhoods and negative environmental justice impacts, many families struggle to put food on the table month-to-month while suffering the health impacts from pollution. Learn more about these challenges and the opportunities renewable energy, particularly cost-competitive distributed solar, bring to these communities in the form of the emerging concept of energy democratization. Moderated by the Sierra Club.
Beatriz Hernandez (GRID Alternatives)
Brett KenCairn (City of Boulder)
Kendra Sandoval (Blue and Yellow Logic)
Don Bufford (Economic Development Chair of the Denver NAACP )
Elias Burgos (Interfaith Power & Light)
