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“How can we change the system?”There are different ways one can answer this question. One way that, at least to me, is increasingly becoming the silver bullet for large-scale transformation is Community-Based Wealth Building.
Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year upended energy markets throughout Europe. No country was hit harder than Germany. At the time, more than half of Germany’s gas came from Russia. In the short term, the country had to double down on fossil fuels: keeping coal-fired power plants open longer and building new liquefied natural gas terminals. But in the long term,
Feldheim villagers in Germany enjoy some of the lowest electricity and natural gas prices in Germany and are not concerned with possible rising energy prices. The town has built green energy producing systems since the 1990s that completely supplies the village with power.
Europeans are opening their energy bills with trepidation these days, bracing for hefty price hikes as utility companies pass on the surging cost of natural gas, oil and electricity tied to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Many are trying to conserve by turning down the heat and shutting off lights this winter. Not so the people…
No worries about energy bills in a tiny Germany Town. “Citizens need to feel that it’s their transition and not one imposed from above,”