Issue: Principles & Processes

Communication on a challenge as deeply rooted and complex as racism requires a clear understanding of communication goals and, subsequently, different approaches.
Research focused on identifying effective strategies that promote policies to advance the well-being of Black and Brown people by centering (rather than avoiding) race revealed key insights from communicators.
     

This groundbreaking and extensive document lays out the components of an ideal 100% policy that is grounded in a Just Transition framework and centers equity and justice. Authored by members of the 100% Network, it brings forward and coalesces the expertise from frontline communities.
The Building Blocks document was designed primarily for frontline organizations looking to develop and implement their own local renewable energy or energy efficiency policies with a justice framework. Secondly, is to build alignment with environmental organizations and intermediary groups that are engaged in developing and advocating for 100% policies.

This flipbook was written from the perspective of frontline communities to help leaders evaluate four themes of energy democracy within their own communities: social justice, regenerative energy, moral economy, and governance assistance.

Just Transition is a vision-led, unifying, and place-based set of principles, processes and practices that build economic and political power to shift from an extractive economy to a regenerative economy. This means approaching production and consumption cycles holistically. The transition itself must be just and equitable, redressing past harms and creating new relationships of power for the future through reparations. If the process of transition is not just, the outcome will never be. Just Transition describes both where we are going and how we get there.