{"id":140549,"date":"2022-06-13T22:03:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T03:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/renowned-carver-adopts-solar-power-as-clean-energy-alternative-to-diesel-on-not-so-sunny-haida-gwaii"},"modified":"2022-06-13T22:03:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T03:03:19","slug":"renowned-carver-adopts-solar-power-as-clean-energy-alternative-to-diesel-on-not-so-sunny-haida-gwaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/renowned-carver-adopts-solar-power-as-clean-energy-alternative-to-diesel-on-not-so-sunny-haida-gwaii","title":{"rendered":"Renowned carver adopts solar power as clean-energy alternative to diesel on not-so-sunny Haida Gwaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/renowned-carver-adopts-solar-power-as-clean-energy-alternative-to-diesel-on-not-so-sunny-haida-gwaii.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Masset, B.C., master carver Jaalen Edenshaw has advocated for clean energy use on the archipelago, a region that is disconnected from B.C. Hydro\u2019s main electricity grid and mainly reliant on diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Since last October, the Haida carver has been teaming up with brother Gwaai to carve a totem pole in honour of Kaay\u2019ahl Laanas hereditary chief Watson Price (Gaahlaay) at a workshop in Masset powered by 18 solar panels that can generate as much as 40 kWh of electricity a day \u2014 enough to fully charge a small electric car.<\/p>\n<p>Edenshaw, a member of the Ts\u2019aahl Eagle Clan, is renowned for his traditional creations, including masks, canoes, and 13-metre high red cedar totem poles that are on display in galleries around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, Masset, B.C., master carver Jaalen Edenshaw has advocated for clean energy use on the archipelago, a region that is disconnected from B.C. Hydro\u2019s main electricity grid and mainly reliant on diesel. Since last October, the Haida carver has been teaming up with brother Gwaai to carve a totem pole in honour of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}