In a facebook conversation, someone said solar was useless because
we should all live like “the indigenous” used to.
Well, let’s see what some of “the indigenous” think about solar power.
Zachary Shahan wrote 13 January 2010 in CleanTechnical,
Native American Tribe Going for Solar, and Money:
The 3,000 members of the Jemez Pueblo tribe in New Mexico are looking
to build the first utility-scale solar power plant on tribal land. They
are also looking to make some money on it.It is no secret that Native American tribes are more likely to be
poverty-stricken and they generally have more than twice the unemployment
rate of the United States. Former Jemez Pueblo governor James Roger
Magdalena says, “We don’t have any revenue coming in except for a
little convenience store.”It is estimated this solar power plant could generate $25 million over the
next quarter century and help create a sustainable revenue for his tribe.Mr. Magdalena sees the environmental changes
