ENERGY DEMOCRACY IN PUERTO RICO

Energy Democracy in Puerto Rico

This collaborative research with Dr. Andrea Feldpausch-Parker (SUNY-ESF) and Dr. Nicolas Hernandez (Santa Clara University) researches the practices of energy democracy in Puerto Rico through ethnographic fieldwork and media analysis. Endres and Hernandez are pictured above with members of El Comité Caborrojeño Pro Salud y Ambiente, an environmental education group in Cabo Rojo. They are presenting work completed by undergraduate students at the University of Utah through a collaboration with the SPARC EJ Lab. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation (SES 2120880).

Publications

Nicolas Hernandez & Danielle Endres, Review of Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico for Rhetoric & Public Affairs 25, no. 2 (2022), 124-129.

Nicolas Hernandez, "Emerging Engagements of Energy Democracy: Rhetorics of Puerto Rican Energy Transition," dissertation completed at the University of Utah (2024).

Community Partner Products

Energy and Environmental Justice in Puerto Rico, SPARC EJ Lab collaboration with Adrienne Cacheline, Nicolas Hernandez, Sirena Montalvo, and El Comité Caborrojeño Pro Salud y Ambiente.

Great Salt Lake and Cabo Rojo Story Map, Spring 2024
“Climate Change and Heat Waves” [bilingual lesson plan for educators], Fall 2023
Abigail Mara Sanders, Ellie Ziemer, Caleb Thomas, Nicolas Hernandez, “Energy Justice in Puerto Rico” [bilingual interactive virtual installation], installed at the Comité Caborrojeño Pro Salud y Ambiente visitor’s center in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Spring 2023
Javier Barcos, Kailey Kathleen Bridget Bickner, Ketyon Critchley, Cole Patrick Dugdale, Daniel Paulson-Luna, & Nicolas Hernandez, Solar Justice in Puerto Rico [annotated bibliography], Fall 2023
Corinna McMurtrey, Jordan Caldwell, Katie Shuman, Peter Littlefield, & Uliana Moshina, “Environmental Justice and Land-Use in Puerto Rico” [poster], May 2022 installed at the Comité Caborrojeño Pro Salud y Ambiente visitor’s center in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, Spring 2022
“Organizing for Social Justice” write up about the project in Teaching Environmental Communication a zine created by Catalina de Onís for the National Communication Association Environmental Communication Division