Bold strategies by publicly owned utilities in communities such as Austin, Santa Fe and Marin County are challenging private energy monopolies and transitioning off fossil-fuel dependence. Hosted by Mariel Nanasi, Executive Director/President, New Energy Economy. With: Karl Rábago, Executive Director, Pace University School of Law Energy and Climate Center, former VP of Distributed Energy for Austin’s community-owned electric utility; Dawn Weisz, Executive Officer, Marin Clean Energy, which launched California’s first Community Choice Aggregation program.

Recorded Friday, October 17, 2014 at the national Bioneers Summit Conference in San Rafael, California.