Unlearn Power

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"Unlearn Power is an indispensable book that compellingly engages with both literal and metaphoric forms of power, offering stories, insights, and practical approaches for environmental, climate, and energy justice. Dr. Teron is a skilled storyteller, interweaving personal and public science reflections that will have readers wanting to continue learning from his incisive, intersectional engagement with environmental racism, organized labor, restorative justice, Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, and much more. This must-read book provides vital teachings for refusing violent power, while building the co-liberatory people power we need!" * Catalina de Onis, Just Transition Alliance * "Unlearn Power is a tremendous resource for anyone interested in how political and economic power creates and maintains environmental inequality. Dr. Teron's spare, clear prose invites us to "look under the hood" of environmental inequality to confront its structural nature. Using case studies and a wide interdisciplinary approach, Unlearn Power lays bare the many intertwined socio-environmental challenges we face, and provides critical action steps for using community-science and community empowerment to build an (albeit imperfect) pathway for transformation in this era of climate change." * Rebecca Bratspies, CUNY School of Law * "Lemir Teron's Unlearn Power reframes how we think about energy, equity, and empowerment. Drawing from lived partnerships with marginalized communities, he shows how unlearning both fossil-fuel dependence and political hierarchies can build cleaner, fairer, and more resilient cities. His work is as rigorous as it is inspiring.

I've seen Teron's Unlearn Power in action - democratizing urban forest planning by training citizens to use i-Tree tools to advocate for plantings that cool neighborhoods and clean the air and soil, while earning deep trust through service. This book captures that same brilliance and humanity, showing how we can all reclaim the energy and agency to heal our cities." * Theodore Endreny, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry *