Opinion: Some energy-saving ideas from the not-so-old days – Bowen Island Undercurrent

by ahnationtalk on December 5, 202380 Views

Instead of 97,000 people flying to Dubai for COP 28, maybe they should just read up on some pre-modern Prince George agricultural history.

Call me a luddite, but instead of 97,000 people flying to Dubai for COP 28 to talk about reducing emissions maybe they should just read up on some pre-modern Prince George agricultural history.

Believe it or not, we still had large, horse-powered ranches, well into the era of space flight in our region.

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Hugh Wilkinson operated one of them, a 60-head ranch in Punchaw, a place where I grew up. He kept it going without tractors up until the early 1960s.

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