Building Solar Justice

• Author: Philip Warburg
• Position: Senior fellow at Boston University's Institute for Sustainable Energy. He is the author of Harness the Sun: America's Quest for a Solar-Powered Future and numerous articles on solar energy. An attorney at ELI from 1989 to 1997, he led the Institute's Central and Eastern European law reform efforts and then directed its Middle East Program
• Pages: 40-47

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Building Solar Justice

“We have this abundant renewable resource at our ngertips.

How can we make it something that drives economic development in

communities that have been excluded om the clean energ y sector?”

Philip Warburg is a senior fe llow at Boston

Universit y’s Institute for Sust ainable Energy. He is t he

author of Harn ess the Sun: America’s Ques t for a Solar-

Powered Future and numero us articles on solar e nergy.

An attorney a t ELI from 1989 to 1997, he led the

Institut e’s Central and Easter n European law reform

effort s and then directed it s Middle East Program .