Revolutionary Power Activists Guide to the Energy Transition with Shalanda Baker
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 2021-01-25

President Biden's new Deputy Director at the US Department of Energy, Professor Shalanda H. Baker is my guest on Episode 63 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.

Shalanda is a professor of law, public policy, and urban affairs at Northeastern University. She has spent more than a decade conducting research on the equity dimensions of the global transition away from fossil fuel energy to cleaner energy resources. She teaches courses on renewable energy development, energy justice, and environmental law. In 2015, she was awarded a 2016–2017 Fulbright–García Robles grant to explore Mexico’s energy reform, climate change, and indigenous rights. 

Before joining Northeastern’s faculty, Shalanda spent three years as an associate professor of law at the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i, where she was the founding director of the Energy Justice Program. 

Shalanda is also a veteran and former Air Force officer who fought to end the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. 

She is the author of over a dozen articles, book chapters, and essays on renewable energy law, policy, and development. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Initiative for Energy Justice, an organization committed to providing technical law and policy support to communities on the front lines of climate change.

Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition - Shalanda Baker arms those made most vulnerable by our current energy system with the tools they need to remake the system in the service of their humanity. She argues that people of color, poor people, and indigenous people must engage in the creation of the new energy system in order to upend the unequal power dynamics of the current system.

#energytransition #activism #humanrights #activism #energyjustice 

https://iejusa.org/
https://www.northeastern.edu/law/faculty/directory/baker-s.html
https://islandpress.org/books/revolutionary-power

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00:00 - Revolutionary Power Activists Guide to the Energy Transition
01:20 - Introduction of Inside Ideas guest Prof. Shalanda Baker
04:05 - Shalanda’s book Revolutionary Power
05:50 - How have you weathered this crazy time?
06:22 - It is Showtime
08:58 - Disruptions are good for changes
12:12 - Issues of injustice 
15:15 - Global Citizen and a world without borders
19:20 -  Construct a new reality for energy system 
22:40 - Access to credit for communities 
24:25 - Differences in wealth in communities 
25:50 - The Solar industry is not diverse
28:55 - How can the energy transition transform society?
32:10 - The concept of Revolutionary Power
34:15 - Empower women and girls, diversity, gender equality
35:30 - Social justice 
36:05 - Indigenous rights
41:40 - A book for this moment
42:30 - The Mexican story
43:33 - The transition to clean energy can replicate inequality 
43:45 - Injustice in the US due to Covid
47:35 - The policy responses 
49:50 - The burning questions, WTF What is the Future?
55:25 - Solar segregation and Energy segregation
56:58 - IKEA selling solar panels
1: 00:30 - Climate change fundamentalism
1:03:25 - Systemic approach 
1:04:25 - Utility reform 
1:07:10 - What is a world that works for everyone look like for you?
1:08:50 - Sustainable takeaway
1:10:15 - Find allies on the ground 
1:11:11 - Keep trusting your instinct