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Climate Stories Atlantic is an initiative of the Climate Focus Society, a Nova Scotia non-profit organization dedicated to covering stories about community climate solutions.
Why would you ever grow a raspberry under the shade of a solar panel? All will be revealed in our latest article: Agrivoltaics: Pairing Unlikely Bedfellows - pairing farming and solar - to the benefit of all, including, of course, the planet.
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With this first "Revisited" article I have a quick chat with Dartmouth's Grace United Church for a sense of life after their 2022 heat pump install. Some of the spin-off benefits were pleasantly unexpected and surprising. @ecologyaction.bsky.social
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The greening of Sable...and a little bit more
Our favourite overgrown sandbar - Sable Island - has recently begun green retrofits. We take a look at those, and go a little bit further into life and work on this most fascinating and bewitching of islands. @sable-institute.bsky.social
In our most recent article, The rise and fall...and rise again...of tidal turbines we take a look at the promising new possibilities for harnessing the energy of our world-renowned Nova Scotia tides. Try try again...
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In our latest article, Doing our dirty work by @aauld.bsky.social, we take a closer look at how this humble super filterer is helping to clean the contaminated waters of Boat Harbour, NS. Read it here: www.climatestoriesatlantic.ca/stories/doin... @dalhousieu.bsky.social @oceanfrontier.bsky.social
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It's crazy what that administration is trying to do to its relationship with Canada - not sure to what end, but makes me nervous.
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This week, in Electrifying the Port of Halifax: a how-to guide, we take a look at the work of a local software data company trying to help boat owners, ports, and utilities figure out the best path to going hybrid or electric, and what that entails.
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Hope is newsworthy. Amid climate challenges, Climate Stories Atlantic highlights local researchers and innovators and the community action they inspire.
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In our latest column, Writing for communities, not algorithms, by @seankellyprospect.bsky.social, we take a look at why supporting professional, unbiased journalism is more important than ever.
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In this latest episode of the podcast I talk to Will Burt, from @planetarytech.bsky.social Wow, just wow. A great guy doing the extremely important work of trying to help save the planet by correcting the alkalinity of our oceans.
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Thermal Energy Storage...what exactly is it?
The various types and why it's an important part of using our grid in a smarter, cleaner way, and what's coming down the pike in terms of newer and better uses. @nsccofficial.bsky.social
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Hope Blooms...and thrives by @philmoscovitch.bsky.social
Checking in on Halifax’s Hope Blooms, two years after our first article, only to find they’re now fully renewable and continuing to grow — in more ways than one.
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Exactly. We conveniently like to forget.
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In this week's article, we take a look at the resurgence of sodium-ion batteries - the unsung sibling of lithium batteries - and how they may just be the answer to some of our current and upcoming battery and mineral woes.
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What's a NS town or city to do when flooding from rising sea levels and storms threatens waterfront or coastal areas?
We take a look at that issue In Shoring up for the future - by @evertlindquist.bsky.social. @ecologyaction.bsky.social
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After a summer of wildfires, heat & toxic air, 250+ city leaders urge Ottawa to fund “nation-building, not nation-burning” projects.
Elbows Up For Climate says a clean grid, housing, & transit could strengthen economic independence, lower emissions & reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
In our latest article we look at the Efficiency Nova Scotia programs working to bring energy retrofits to traditionally underserved communities dealing with the challenging and often complicated issues around title and property ownership.
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New podcast: “Dan Roscoe - harnessing our NS winds” by The Cautious Climate Optimist, where I chat with Dan Roscoe of Roswall Dev. to talk all things wind and wind turbines.
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"Mapping our future" about how one NSCC researcher says the key to avoiding the worst of in-land flooding during more common, more severe storm events is to get ahead of them with potentially life-saving predictive mapping.
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Is it too late?, the next installment of our Climate Focus column - written by CSA co-founder, @seankellyprospect.bsky.social .
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New article: Adapting and adopting by Matt McIntosh, about how drought is impacting Nova Scotia farmers, and what they’re doing about it.
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