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Stored Potential: Focus Group Perspectives on California’s Battery Boom

Through focus groups in three California communities — Orange and Ventura counties, the Central Valley, and the Central Coast — Data for Progress and the Reliable Grid Project examined Californians’ attitudes on the growing battery storage industry in the state. This research identified low existing awareness of battery storage projects among Californians, and high variability in views of battery storage’s potential to address the California grid’s most pressing challenges.

Tipsheet: Mutual Aid for Climate Justice 201

As a continuation of Mutual Aid for Climate Justice 101, and in response to Lab members requests, this tipsheet answers the question “how do mutual aid networks work?”

  • Learn about organizational structures, and an example from mutual aid group Water Drop LA
  • Map organizing networks to fit your own mutual aid work
  • Review the foundational values behind mutual aid organizing

Check out the full recording of the Mutual Aid for Climate Justice 201 training.

Electric School Buses in the US Could Bring $1.6 Billion a Year in Health and Climate Benefits

New research from WRI’s Electric School Bus Initiative and Carleton University shows that the U.S. would see an estimated $1.6 billion in health and climate benefits every year by using electric school buses. The benefits are most pronounced in counties with older diesel buses and larger populations.
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