What is energy justice? Energy justice is all about fairness and equity in energy systems. Research and social movement work on energy (in)justice identifies and tries to counteract unfair distribution of the benefits and costs of energy systems and services. It tries to involve all social groups, especially the disadvantaged, in energy decision-making processes. Achieving energy justice means addressing the driving forces of social and spatial inequality. (For more on the definition of energy justice, see Bouzarovski, Stefan, and Neil Simcock. 2017. “Spatializing Energy Justice.” Energy Policy 107: 640–48 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421517302185), and The Energy Justic Workbook (https://iejusa.org/section-1-defining-energy-justice).
This page includes links to recent acquisitions on energy justice, selected books and media in the library collection, and a few of the Minnesota organizations working on energy justice.
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AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock
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Broken Rainbow
Harlan County U.S.A
Audio Visual HD5325 .M6152 1973
How Green Is My Valley
Audio Visual JZ1318 .L54 2005 v.16
The Island President
Matewan
Still Life
Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation. Call Number: E99.N3 C87 2023
Clean Air and Good Jobs: U.S. Labor and the Struggle for Climate Justice Call Number: GE230 .V34 2023
Climate Change As Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet Call Number HX550.E25 H83 2022
Energy Poverty, Practice, and Policy
eBook (2022)
Pipeline Populism: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Twenty-first Century Call Number: HD9580.C34 K38 2022
Working Across Lines: Resisting Extreme Energy Extraction
Call Number: HD9502.U63 C24 2022
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Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by 
Carbon Criminals, Climate Crimes by 
The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives by 
Energy Justice Across Borders by 
Global Justice, Natural Resources, and Climate Change by 
The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice by 
Indigenous Environmental Justice by 
Landscapes of Power: Politics of Energy in the Navajo Nation by 
More Powerful Together: Conversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders by 
Pipeline Pedagogy: Teaching about Energy and Environmental Justice Contestations by 
Struggles for Climate Justice by 
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Below are links to organizations in Minnesota working on energy justice issues. This list highlights a few of the organizations and is not exhaustive.
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