notes: Can't find their website, but found: Democracy Now programs about Arturo Massol Deyá, the Executive Director Articles about Casa Pueblo https://www.elnuevodia.com/topicos/casa-pueblo/ "Casa Pueblo has been the driving force behind community solar in Adjuntas, a mountainside town of about 18,000. In an area where some people were without power for 11 months after Maria, the organization was able to install 700 solar panels and provide 220 kilowatts to more than a dozen businesses downtown. Second-hand EV batteries donated by automaker Rivian provide a megawatt of battery storage and allow Puerto Rico's first community-owned microgrid to provide power independent of the grid for up to 10 days. Casa Pueblo worked with nonprofits like the Honnold Foundation and the Community Solar Energy Association of Adjuntas to fund the $2 million project. And while the merchants pay for the energy they use, their rates are significantly lower than Luma's. Profits are used for maintenance and to finance rooftop solar installations for low-income residents." See more at: https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/puerto-ricos-solar-revolution-what-we-can-learn-from-the-islands-energy-crisis/ More on Arturo, Casa Pueblo's exec dir: https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/arturo_massol_deya [link below]Presentation of the latest book by Arturo Massol Deyá, Democracia y energía: desafiando la economía de los combustibles fósiles por un país propio. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Ediciones Callejón, 2022. Arturo A. Massol Deyá is the executive director of Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas, a community-based group with over 40 years of services in natural resources conservation, education, and sustainable development. A graduate of the public school system (1986) and the University of Puerto Rico (1990), he obtained his doctoral degree from the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University in 1994. Since then he has been a faculty member at the Department of Biology of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus where he established the Tropical Microbial Ecology Lab. He has been a principal investigator of projects on microbial ecology with emphasis on biological processes aimed at restoring contaminated environments. After the direct impact of Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, Dr. Massol-Deyá, together with Casa Pueblo, has led a community aid response that aims to change the energy landscape of a country dependent on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy sources. https://www.amherst.edu/index.php/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry/salon-series/node/890129 -> Can't find their website, but found what looks like an extensive article about their work, which we heard first of on Democracy Now https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1789694/FULLTEXT01.pdf Articles about Casa Pueblo https://www.elnuevodia.com/topicos/casa-pueblo/ "Casa Pueblo has been the driving force behind community solar in Adjuntas, a mountainside town of about 18,000. In an area where some people were without power for 11 months after Maria, the organization was able to install 700 solar panels and provide 220 kilowatts to more than a dozen businesses downtown. Second-hand EV batteries donated by automaker Rivian provide a megawatt of battery storage and allow Puerto Rico's first community-owned microgrid to provide power independent of the grid for up to 10 days. Casa Pueblo worked with nonprofits like the Honnold Foundation and the Community Solar Energy Association of Adjuntas to fund the $2 million project. And while the merchants pay for the energy they use, their rates are significantly lower than Luma's. Profits are used for maintenance and to finance rooftop solar installations for low-income residents." See more at: https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/puerto-ricos-solar-revolution-what-we-can-learn-from-the-islands-energy-crisis/ Democracy Now programs about Arturo Massol Deyá, Executive Director: https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/arturo_massol_deya [link below]Presentation of the latest book by Arturo Massol Deyá, Democracia y energía: desafiando la economía de los combustibles fósiles por un país propio. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Ediciones Callejón, 2022. Arturo A. Massol Deyá is the executive director of Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas, a community-based group with over 40 years of services in natural resources conservation, education, and sustainable development. A graduate of the public school system (1986) and the University of Puerto Rico (1990), he obtained his doctoral degree from the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University in 1994. Since then he has been a faculty member at the Department of Biology of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus where he established the Tropical Microbial Ecology Lab. He has been a principal investigator of projects on microbial ecology with emphasis on biological processes aimed at restoring contaminated environments. After the direct impact of Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, Dr. Massol-Deyá, together with Casa Pueblo, has led a community aid response that aims to change the energy landscape of a country dependent on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy sources. https://www.amherst.edu/index.php/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry/salon-series/node/890129

notes: Can't find their website, but found what looks like an extensive article about their work, which we heard first of on Democracy Now https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1789694/FULLTEXT01.pdf Articles about Casa Pueblo https://www.elnuevodia.com/topicos/casa-pueblo/ "Casa Pueblo has been the driving force behind community solar in Adjuntas, a mountainside town of about 18,000. In an area where some people were without power for 11 months after Maria, the organization was able to install 700 solar panels and provide 220 kilowatts to more than a dozen businesses downtown. Second-hand EV batteries donated by automaker Rivian provide a megawatt of battery storage and allow Puerto Rico's first community-owned microgrid to provide power independent of the grid for up to 10 days. Casa Pueblo worked with nonprofits like the Honnold Foundation and the Community Solar Energy Association of Adjuntas to fund the $2 million project. And while the merchants pay for the energy they use, their rates are significantly lower than Luma's. Profits are used for maintenance and to finance rooftop solar installations for low-income residents." See more at: https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/puerto-ricos-solar-revolution-what-we-can-learn-from-the-islands-energy-crisis/ Democracy Now programs about Arturo Massol Deyá, Executive Director: https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/arturo_massol_deya [link below]Presentation of the latest book by Arturo Massol Deyá, Democracia y energía: desafiando la economía de los combustibles fósiles por un país propio. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Ediciones Callejón, 2022. Arturo A. Massol Deyá is the executive director of Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas, a community-based group with over 40 years of services in natural resources conservation, education, and sustainable development. A graduate of the public school system (1986) and the University of Puerto Rico (1990), he obtained his doctoral degree from the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University in 1994. Since then he has been a faculty member at the Department of Biology of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus where he established the Tropical Microbial Ecology Lab. He has been a principal investigator of projects on microbial ecology with emphasis on biological processes aimed at restoring contaminated environments. After the direct impact of Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, Dr. Massol-Deyá, together with Casa Pueblo, has led a community aid response that aims to change the energy landscape of a country dependent on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy sources. https://www.amherst.edu/index.php/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry/salon-series/node/890129 -> Extensive article about their work, which we heard first of on Democracy Now https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1789694/FULLTEXT01.pdf Articles about Casa Pueblo https://www.elnuevodia.com/topicos/casa-pueblo/ "Casa Pueblo has been the driving force behind community solar in Adjuntas, a mountainside town of about 18,000. In an area where some people were without power for 11 months after Maria, the organization was able to install 700 solar panels and provide 220 kilowatts to more than a dozen businesses downtown. Second-hand EV batteries donated by automaker Rivian provide a megawatt of battery storage and allow Puerto Rico's first community-owned microgrid to provide power independent of the grid for up to 10 days. Casa Pueblo worked with nonprofits like the Honnold Foundation and the Community Solar Energy Association of Adjuntas to fund the $2 million project. And while the merchants pay for the energy they use, their rates are significantly lower than Luma's. Profits are used for maintenance and to finance rooftop solar installations for low-income residents." See more at: https://www.cnet.com/home/energy-and-utilities/puerto-ricos-solar-revolution-what-we-can-learn-from-the-islands-energy-crisis/ Democracy Now programs about Arturo Massol Deyá, Executive Director: https://www.democracynow.org/appearances/arturo_massol_deya [link below]Presentation of the latest book by Arturo Massol Deyá, Democracia y energía: desafiando la economía de los combustibles fósiles por un país propio. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Ediciones Callejón, 2022. Arturo A. Massol Deyá is the executive director of Casa Pueblo de Adjuntas, a community-based group with over 40 years of services in natural resources conservation, education, and sustainable development. A graduate of the public school system (1986) and the University of Puerto Rico (1990), he obtained his doctoral degree from the Center for Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University in 1994. Since then he has been a faculty member at the Department of Biology of the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez Campus where he established the Tropical Microbial Ecology Lab. He has been a principal investigator of projects on microbial ecology with emphasis on biological processes aimed at restoring contaminated environments. After the direct impact of Hurricane Maria over Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, Dr. Massol-Deyá, together with Casa Pueblo, has led a community aid response that aims to change the energy landscape of a country dependent on fossil fuels to one based on renewable energy sources. https://www.amherst.edu/index.php/academiclife/colloquia/center-humanistic-inquiry/salon-series/node/890129
website: -> http://www.casapueblo.org/