Gabriola Commons Community Centre

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Once a goat cheese farm, the Gabriola Commons Community Centre is now home to a grassroots organization focused on preserving and enriching the local environment and community. After creating a community kitchen, gardens and a public transit system—the group is now setting out to prove how small-scale solar can also benefit the community. Bullfrog Power and the Regional District of Nanaimo have partnered with the Gabriola Commons Foundation to help make their new solar project possible.

Read our Currents of Change profile with Judith Roux of Gabriola Commons

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Judith Roux

“Taking action for the planet—keeping our waters clean, our forests green, our air breathable—is the only action on the table.”
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About our community projects

Activists and organizers across the country are working to transition their communities away from fossil fuels. We created our community-based green energy projects grant to provide critical funding for these local efforts.

All bullfrogpowered customers help fund these small-scale, community-led projects, including solar panels on schools and in Indigenous communities, education and training programs, and a cleantech accelerator.

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cSPACE

cSPACE King Edward Solar Project

cSPACE Projects, a Calgary-based organization that fosters creative collaboration between local artists and designers, is transforming the former King Edward School site into a collaboration space for dozens of small organizations. cSPACE plans to install a 7 kW solar PV system on the facility to help reduce its energy requirements, with Bullfrog Power...

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MMRC solar roof

The Marine Mammal Rescue Centre

The Marine Mammal Rescue Centre saves more than 150 mammals and releases them back into the wild every year. Bullfrog Power funded 50% of a 4.8 kW solar project on the Rescue Centre’s roof, allowing the Centre to redirect funds towards its rehabilitation efforts.

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