Keeping the Lights On

Patterson, Walter C.

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“…With the demise of coal and tobacco, state leaders invested in prison boom over the last generation. If incarceration rates continue to rise in Kentucky as they have since 2000, “every person in the state would be behind bars in 113 years” (Norton and Schept, 2019). Central Appalachia at large has sixteen prisons, twelve of which were built in last three decades, according to Schept (2022), with eight prisons in eastern Kentucky alone.…”

Section: Locking Up Kentuckymentioning

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Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky

Graddy‐Lovelace

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This agrarian geography of Kentucky begins on the streets of the state's largest city, in the throes of antiracist struggle. It tracks the state's lingering colonial settler power dynamics through the racism of plantation, extraction, and carceral geographies. It then traces how resistance to these exploitations take root in place-based agri-food initiatives unfolding through urban-rural solidarity against white supremacist policing, prison systems, labor exploitation, and extractivism. It begins with a brief overview of the scale of reference of Kentucky itself. Situating the state entails addressing the trauma and topophilia (love of landscape) of its agrarian past and present. It draws upon bell hooks’ literary invocations of Kentucky-based agrarian visions, as well as place-based political ecology scholarship (seven years of Kentucky Agrarian Questions practitioner panels at the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference at University of Kentucky). Following Black and abolitionist geographies, this agrarian geography traces rural and urban shared struggles for food sovereignty, environmental justice, and liberation from racism of carceral systems. It introduces Kentucky grassroots projects connecting and uniting rural and urban struggles against carceral violence and the racism therein, such as Hood to the Holler (a political initiative emerging from Black Lives Matter mobilizations for Breonna Taylor). The essay ends with reflections on the political-ecological contradictions and imperative of working through and beyond a settler-colonial-state scale of reference like Kentucky. To extricate from and dismantle plantation modes and carceral legacies, abolitionist agrarian geographies recover the reality of Black and Indigenous agrarian history, presence, and futures. As such, rooted in place-based reckoning, resistance, and responsibility, they offer hope.

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Section: Locking Up Kentuckymentioning

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Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky

Graddy‐Lovelace

2023

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Conversely, electricity is not a fuel but a process of delivering energy to a wide variety of end use technologies. Electricity occurs in real time, simultaneously throughout the entire system, it is not a physical commodity like oil (Patterson, 2007).…”

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“…For example, to convert sunlight into electricity, one does not pay for the sunlight or the 'fuel' for the process, but only for the required physical infrastructure such as the photovoltaic panels, inverters, or cables. Sustainable electricity concerns a major paradigm shift away from thinking about energy in terms of fuel, to thinking about it in terms of infrastructure (Patterson, 2007). The new question for society is how to integrate the required renewable electricity infrastructure in to the built environment.…”

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Parametric Solar Architecture

Kuslikis¹

2021

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Integrating photovoltaic systems into the urban landscape is fundamental to the wide scale acceptance of the technology. It is also one of the major factors currently limiting its popularity, coupled with high costs, and the lack of adequate storage methods. Contributing to the lack of architectural integration are shortcomings in design tools and an overall lack of forward thinking proposals suggesting how society can begin implementing solar power on a large scale. Research conducted by the International Energy Agency 'Task 41: Solar Energy and Architecture' has identified the need for more developed toolsets to help designers quantify solar exposure and shading coefficients during the conceptual design phase. Although software to calculate incident surface radiation is available, it is largely detached from the traditional design process and workflow. What is required to improve the architectural integration of photovoltaic systems is a new design methodology. A method that must be both inherently flexible and quantifiable, so that designers can validate and modify designs quickly and efficiently. In a process where innovative digital tools combined with the intuition of the designer expand the creative possibilities of intelligent solar architecture. The aim of the project is to develop a new design methodology by combining parametric and environmental analysis tools, providing quantitative performance indicators in order to assist architects at the early design stage. Using case studies, the project will demonstrate how this methodology is applicable to a wide array of project typologies within an urban context. In addition to demonstrating the applicability of the system, the case studies would also illustrate the potential for photvoltaic installations to alter the landscape of the city and facilitate a fresh dialogue between public space and renewable energy generation.

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As licitações tecnológicas catalíticas como instrumento de busca da eficiência energética no Brasil: caracterização e análise de viabilidade.

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Keeping the Lights On

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Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky

Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky

Parametric Solar Architecture

As licitações tecnológicas catalíticas como instrumento de busca da eficiência energética no Brasil: caracterização e análise de viabilidade.

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