• @IonAddis
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    3010 months ago

    Okay, that article was actually fun to read.

    About the facility’s management, he added, jokingly: “We had to hold their head under water. Three managers died before we got this done. They drowned in a bucket.”

    • @Cort
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      710 months ago

      Screw the guillotine, Bob Green’s waterboarding bucket sounds like it actually works!

  • @karpintero
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    2210 months ago

    Great story, kudos to her. Goes to show how one person can make an impact in their small part of the world with some passion and grit.

    • @[email protected]OPM
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      2810 months ago

      The key thing was that she didn’t work alone; she organized a group to keep on pushing:

      She formed a solar committee and began trying to work on management, without much success. “They said, ‘We looked into it when we built the community, and it wasn’t feasible,’” she recalled. “I said, ‘The technology has changed a lot since then.’”

      Groups calling for action tend to have a lot more power to get things done.

      • @grue
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        310 months ago

        Can confirm: I try to be an activist but I’m bad at community organizing, so I don’t get much done.

  • guyrocket
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    1410 months ago

    I don’t understand why any business would not want to go solar. Panel prices keep dropping which makes it an ever better investment.

    It is not the solution for everyone everywhere but it makes a lot of business sense for most. Yes, it is a longer term investment but so are most buildings.