Inuit traditional knowledge meets engineering: a tale of energy-autonomy in South Greenland

"I just looked at the land and started building". Our group of guests from Norway and Finland in our NAPA project "empowering green transition from the grassroots" sits around a coffee table with a gorgeous view to the fjord dotted with icebergs. The answer of Lars Nielsen from Kangerluarsorujuk to a question how he made …

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Inuit Innovation: grassroots hydropower green transition among sheep farmers

by Florian Stammler, Asiarpa Paviasen and Tupaarnaq Kreutzmann-Kleist What connects dams, hydropower, green energy, agriculture, sheep farming and Inuit in Greenland? in the front the water supply pipe leading to the tiny turbine house of the micro-hydropower plant supplying two sheep farms in South Greenland Inuit are better known in the popular and anthropological literature …

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