Samantha Shannon said that when her nine-year-old son asked what the family was doing about climate change — she didn’t know what to say.Samantha Shannon said when her nine-year-old son asked what the family was doing about climate change — she didn't know what to say.
Wrestling with that question, she began reflecting on how the family was living and impacting the world around them. It's also inspired changes the family hopes to demonstrate as part of a Live Net Zero Challenge run by She's swapped out the single pane windows in her 1980s house for triple pane, added insulation, uses her car less and, most recently, ripped up the front yard to have a geothermal heat pump installed, which heats and cools her home.
"I wanted to future-proof my own house, and essentially this is us buying ourselves resiliency," she said.Solar panels, EVs and more — listen to all the interviews from The Homestretch series on ways to save energy , Premier Danielle Smith said a net-zero grid by 2035 is realistic for other provinces, but not Alberta.
The province recently launched its $8-million "Tell the Feds" campaign, which warns of blackouts and skyrocketing bills if the federal plan for a net-zero grid by 2035 comes to fruition.