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"Susan Auslander, at 89, is an energetic, convent-educated, white-haired Prius
driver, and when her retirement community told her it was not feasible to
convert to solar power, Ms. Auslander decided to push back. That push turned
into a five-year campaign.
“It became my hobby — not my obsession,” she said, as people do sometimes when
evidence points the other way. “I wasn’t going to sit here in my rocking chair,
clutching my pearls.”
Whether hobby or obsession, her efforts are now producing results. After years
of demurrals, Meadow Ridge, the for-profit care community in Redding, Conn.,
where Ms. Auslander lives, recently announced plans to erect solar panels over
two parking lots and the roof of one building in the complex. The panels —
1,344 in all — are expected to offset 607.2 metric tons of carbon each year.
The residents, as Ms. Auslander sees it, outlasted a recalcitrant management.
The campaign took long enough that one of its original instigators, a
centenarian from Scarsdale, N.Y., did not live to see it through."
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Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
