by OREC | Aug 23, 2017 | Learn
This article by Environment North president Graham Saunders was originally published in the Chronicle Journal on July 30, 2017. The cost of generating electricity has come under considerable scrutiny in recent years. A recent breakdown of an average residential...
by OREC | Apr 12, 2017 | Learn
Roger Peters, an OREC Board Member, shares with us how solar technology is being used in Tanzania in a four part blog series. Northern Tanzania contains some of the most well-known tourist destinations in the world – Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Manyara...
by OREC | Mar 27, 2017 | Learn
Roger Peters, an OREC Board Member, shares with us how solar technology is being used in Tanzania in a four part blog series. Climate change is already hurting farm families in Tanzania. The `short’ rains that normally fall in November and December just...
by OREC | Mar 10, 2017 | Learn
The following post was written by Angela Bischoff, Ontario Clean Air Alliance’s Outreach Director. In 1998, seven of Ontario Hydro’s nuclear reactors had to be unexpectedly shut down for safety reasons. All of these reactors were shut down for more than...
by OREC | Mar 10, 2017 | Learn
Roger Peters, an OREC Board Member, shares with us how solar technology is being used in Tanzania in a four part blog series. Apaikunda Pallangyo and her family are farmers in rural Tanzania. She hosts a Farm Radio International radio `listening group’ of...
by OREC | Feb 27, 2017 | Learn
Roger Peters, an OREC Board Member, shares with us how solar technology is being used in Tanzania in a four part blog series. If you are poor farmer in rural Tanzania with cell phone service but no electric power or internet, how do you get ahead? First you form a...