Public Resource
Comprehensive Building Blocks for a Regenerative & Just 100% Policy
Recommendations for a comprehensive approach to achieving 100% regenerative energy that is centered on justice include:
- Ensure 100% transition off of fossil fuels
- Set aggressive targets
- Impose a comprehensive scope of coverage
- Define what is renewable
- Transition from a for-profit utility model and push for utility reform
- Center Just Transition in policy
- Prioritize and identify environmental justice and frontline populations and communities
- Promote gender justice
- Advance tribal sovereignty and rights
- And more!
Among several sets of “Building Blocks” provided are those for:
- Just Transition and Prioritizing the Frontline
- Land, Transportation and Buildings
- Public Health, Careers and Workers
- Siting, Ownership and Geography
- Distributed Generation and the Grid
- Financing and Energy Safety Net
- Public Participation and Governance
- Fuel Switching, Disposal, and Recycling
A helpful section on “Key Concepts to Be Mindful Of” helps break down examples of keywords from fossil fuel and utility policies that are used to stop a transition to a 100% regenerative economy.