Selena Feliciano: Reconnecting With Our Nature – EgyptToday – Egypt Today

Selena Feliciano: Reconnecting With Our Nature – EgyptToday – Egypt Today

The national campaign coordinator for Energy Democracy Project Selena Feliciano has worked in the renewable energy field for a number of years, and now she is working more in the environmental and climate justice.

Selena said to Egypt Today that Energy Democracy Project is a coalition of about 35 different organizations, each organization is doing its work on the ground.

“Some organizations are hosting community workshops to help people understand what energy even is, while others are doing policy and advocacy work, trying to pass some policies at the federal level for communities to be able to own, control and manage their own power. So it's a pretty diverse group and a pretty diverse set of stakeholders. But I'd say at the end of the day, we are really trying to work towards unity and trying to figure out how all of these organizations can work in tandem” Selena said.

On how can we have sustainable economy with the use of solar energy Selena explained that renewable energy as a technology is a tool, it is not the solution for climate change.

“We can't expect a climate tech company or a solar panel manufacturing company to save us. At the end of the day,