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Watt’s Happening: Low carbon energy is getting cheaper and cheaper

Don Petit: "The price for energy produced from solar and wind has fallen so quickly that most people do not know that they have become cheaper than any other energy source. And the price continues to fall! "

Watt’s Happening: NOT THE END OF THE WORLD

We are the first generation to begin to feel the full effects of a changing climate, and we are the last generation that can do something about it. The good news is that we ARE doing something about it!

Watt’s Happening: Is geothermal energy the next big thing?

Much like oil and gas, geothermal involves large scale directional drilling. The skills, equipment and expertise needed in both industries are very similar, opening huge clean energy opportunities in both northeast BC and across Alberta. 

Watt’s Happening: The quiet revolution of cooperatives

I am just going about my day-to-day affairs, but each of my actions expresses a fundamentally different way of viewing the world. It is the way of the cooperative.

Watt’s Happening: Walking with Thoreau in 2024

Thoreau preached the benefits of staying home and looking with fresh eyes on the commonplace, everything we take for granted, all that surrounds us that goes unnoticed in this modern world of unlimited distraction.

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