Above Photo: From CreativeResistance.org.
A Deck of Strategies
Here at The Next System Project, we are incredibly interested in the conversation around energy democracy: using the imperative of a switch to greener sources of power as an opportunity to also advance new forms of engaged community capacity and democratized wealth. But behind this simple basic principle is a bewildering array of actual strategies to be deployed on a shifting technological and regulatory canvas. We began writing a traditional report to compare and contrast this inventory of tools in the energy democracy toolbox, but realized that there might be a better and more engaging way to present this information—and so, taking inspiration both from Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies (a card deck that encourages end-runs around creative roadblocks) as well as more mundane strategy card games like Magic: The Gathering, we present our deck of strategies for energy democracy, in a format we hope will encourage advocates for a equitable green transition to identify new possibilities and tactical combinations.
