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We can individually and collectively act in our own community, in our neighborhoods,

to do something

different than we're doing now, whether it's like community composting or a community solar

array or individually investing in solar, but that we also have to collectively organize

to change the rules of the system to make it easier for that kind of thing to happen.

That was John Farrell, also known as the guru of distributed energy.

He's the co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance,

where he directs its work on energy democracy,

and he's best known for his vivid illustrations of the economic and environmental benefits

of local ownership of decentralized

renewable energy. Stay tuned as we're about to explore how we came to develop and rely on our

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