Brooks, Emily. “Local Power: The Politics of Renewables in California | Platypus.” Accessed July 18, 2018. http://blog.castac.org/2016/08/local-power/.
Emily Brooks, "Local Power: The Politics of Renewables in California ", contributed by James Adams, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 17 July 2018, accessed 7 November 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/local-power-politics-renewables-california
Critical Commentary
In this CASTAC blog post, Emily Brooks characterizes a struggle between different factions of environmentalists to understand the renewable energy affordances of Southern California's desert landscape. "Many environmental activists question whether landscape-scale renewable energy plans actually prioritize the needs of California’s growing coastal cities against the needs of small rural communities, wildlife, and desert ecosystems."