Visualizing Energy is an open-access, interdisciplinary science-communication project that aims to increase actionable knowledge about a sustainable and just energy transition.

In this Springs article, historian Jane Carruthers explores the history and impact of energy injustice in South Africa.

Book excerpt from former Rachel Carson Center fellow Alan MacEachern’s The Institute of Man and Resources: An Environmental Fable. Learn about how Prince Edward Island in Canada tackled the oil crisis of the 1970s by investing in renewable resources.

Trees are also entangled with politics. In “An Otherworldly Species: Joshua Trees and the Conservation-Climate Dilemma” historian Thomas M. Lekan discusses what he considers a false choice between climate protection and conservation.

Guy DeLeonardo of General Electric (GE) highlights the market, business, and technology in energy generation. Motivated by the 1.2 billion people who lack access to reliable electricity, DeLeonardo talks about how renewable resources enter the energy production market through technology, and what alternatives to our present modes of productions can achieve better energy use.

Episode 6 of Crosscurrents features talks and short interviews from the Climate Change and Energy Futures workshop. The 2018 workshop imagined futures related to climate change and energy, with attention to the social values that underlie decision-making in a carbon-constrained world.