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TIL about a Arkansas school that turned solar savings into better teacher pay (energynews.us)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world to c/solarpunk@slrpnk.net

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in three years [the solar panels] generated enough savings to transform the district’s $250,000 budget deficit into a $1.8 million surplus.”

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 months ago

This is perhaps the best thing I've seen today. More of this, please. Let's convert all schools and municipalities and fund education and infrastructure beyond our wildest paltry (at this point) expectations.