Power to the People
Cree environmentalist Melina Laboucan-Massimo explores the renewable energy revolution empowering Indigenous communities across Canada and around the world. Projects include wind farms, solar power plants and tidal energy initiatives.
Cree environmentalist Melina Laboucan-Massimo explores the renewable energy revolution empowering Indigenous communities across Canada and around the world. Projects include wind farms, solar power plants and tidal energy initiatives.
Melina Laboucan-Massimo travels to her home community in Little Buffalo, where she examines the impacts of oil sands...
The Kanaka Bar Indian Band near Lytton are adapting to the rising threats of climate change through innovative...
Hereditary Chief Ernest Alfred leads a group opposed to a commercial salmon farm on their traditional territory.
The Haida Nation relies on diesel generators to power their communities, but a homegrown group is looking to the wind...
Three Mi'kmaq communities faced an uphill struggle to stake their claim in the Gaspe Bay's booming wind energy sector...
The shishalh (Sechelt) Nation is harnessing the natural power of gravity and water through run-of-the-river...
The Teslin Tlingit Nation has found a way to turn a negative into a positive by milling their waste wood into biomass...
The Six Nations of the Grand River has invested in some of the largest wind and solar power plants in the country.
The Nuxalk Nation looked inward for solutions to their housing problems and now they've become a homegrown model for...
The Tla-o-qui-aht Nation is pioneering the use of geoexchange technology to cost-effectively heat and cool their homes.
The Taku River Tlingit Nation in northern BC has successfully replaced diesel power through their implementation of...
With climate change reshaping their environment, the Kluane First Nation is looking to wind, solar, biomass and...
Remote Gull Bay First Nation has pioneered Canada's first fully integrated solar micro grid solution to offset their use...