A few weeks ago I wrote about Sun Day, a campaign to celebrate solar power in local communities and encourage more people to get involved. They’ve followed up the day by inviting people to screen this short documentary, The Light Won’t Dim. It looks at how solar keeps medical equipment online in the scrappy grid power of Puerto Rico, how New York mandates solar on all public buildings, and a New England town where people’s bills run into the negative in the summer because of their community solar farm.
The film touches on how the Trump administration has tried to halt the growth of solar, and why he won’t succeed. Solar changes social power structures as well as electrical power structures. It democratizes energy, shares the benefits and brings freedom from high bills and fossil fuels. There are no good reasons to oppose it, and more and more people see that.
Sun Day are inviting people to show the thirty minute film to friends and neighbours, and make it an event. Host it with snacks, discuss it, and see what your community can do. You could show it to students. Or you can just watch it on your lunch break.
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