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Solar Power

How One Arctic Hamlet is Harnessing The Sun to Cut Costs and Fuel Change

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Nehaa Bimal

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Stepping inside the repurposed sea cans uptown in Gjoa Haven, a hamlet located 250 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, I was hit with tropical humidity.

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The first thing I saw at Naurvik, “the growing place” in Inuktitut, an off-grid greenhouse running largely on wind and solar power, was the purple LED lights illuminating stacked racks of basil, strawberries, cherry tomatoes, and rows of greens.

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