Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe

Author:Katharine Hayhoe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Published: 2021-09-21T00:00:00+00:00

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In her TED talk How Empowering Women and Girls Can Help Stop Global Warming, Katharine Wilkinson explains that “women are the primary farmers of the world. They produce 60 to 80 percent of food in lower-income countries, often operating on fewer than five acres.… Compared with men, women smallholders have less access to resources, including land rights, credit and capital, training, tools and technology. Close those gaps, and farm yields rise by 20 to 30 percent.” As Gladys found, clean energy opens even more new opportunities.

On the opposite side of the world, northern Canada’s plentiful mining resources often lie near or on the traditional lands of First Nations peoples. In such remote areas, diesel is the primary fuel for both towns and mines. But it’s expensive and runs the risk of dangerous spills that can contaminate land and even water supply. Wiigwaasaatig Energy is a partnership between mining corporation AurCrest and three local Ojibway Nations in northern Ontario. They’re currently purchasing off-grid mobile wind- and solar-generation units and are ultimately hoping to provide forty megawatts of electricity, enough to power over six thousand homes. The Nations own 51 percent of the project and the company owns 49 percent, giving locals the opportunity to benefit from the mine and generate local power at the same time.

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