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This essay comes from the book ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth Published by the Foundation for Deep Ecology in collaboration with Watershed Media and Post Carbon Institute.
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An engineer with decades of experience developing small-scale hydroelectric, solar, and wind power projects, Bob King is the president of Ashuelot River Hydro in Keene, New Hampshire. He owns and operates hydroelectric dams in New England and upstate New York, and he is deeply engaged in land conservation and renewable energy activism.
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