Apple just released a beautiful new video of the solar array it recently built in Maiden, North Carolina.
This project is the largest end-user-owned photovoltaic solar array in the country. It will be powering Apple’s internet data center in North Carolina, which stores all of your contacts, photos, text messages, and really anything else on Apple’s iCloud.
Prior to the construction of this solar array, Apple was powering its North Carolina data center with dirty coal-fired power supplied by the energy utility Duke Energy. I was surprised that a progressive company like Apple would power itself with energy that causes pollution and global warming. Continue reading
The Great Bear Rainforest is so vast that it’s taken me four years just to visit the extraordinary old-growth forested valleys and islands, and communities of the central and north coasts of British Columbia – Bella Bella, Bella Coola, Hartley Bay, Kitimaat Village. However the Great Bear Rainforest also encompasses some of the south coast – historically most hit by industrial logging, placing at high risk many significant old-growth ecosystems. And it’s what’s happening particularly on Sonora Island that has at last drawn me to visit the southern region of this very special rainforest.