Cool Solutions: Stories of climate action from the bottom up - Community Owned Solar

Community Owned Solar

01/15/23 • 28 min

Cool Solutions: Stories of climate action from the bottom up

Meet a retiree in rural OR and a group of millennials in WA who are spreading community owned solar projects across their states.

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