Penticton Clean Energy Expo exhibits sustainability
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The expo - featuring a variety of information booths - from solar energy to electric cars and bikes, and even demonstrations on how to make your home more energy efficient.
An Okanagan climate action group hosted their fourth annual “Climate Action Energy” in Penticton on Saturday.
First Things First Okanagan is a non-profit group that promotes climate change awareness, with a goal of finding clean energy solutions. The Clean Energy Expo is just another example of how they’re working to achieve this objective.
“Of course, the most important thing is that we don’t put carbon into the air,” explained First Things First chairperson, Jim Beattie.
“So as a result, we have to talk about the kind of energy that is as clean as possible.”
The expo, featuring information booths, from solar energy to electric cars and bikes, and a demonstration on how to make your home more energy efficient. Beattie says the time is now for the general population to start looking at ways we can help the environment.
“If we look around the world now, we see what the problem is,” described Beattie.
“These hurricanes, these floods that they’re having, monsoon floods in Pakistan, our heat dome. It’s unavoidable and undeniable that this is about climate change.”
Several electric bike, car and boat suppliers from Penticton were at the expo to show off their latest electric models. One car salesperson says that the majority of his customers these days are looking to ditch their gas-powered vehicle for an electric, even if it means a long wait.
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