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Every commodity has its price!I’m catching up but I know you get it! Lol
I was just doing a bunch of reading on environmental sustainability and how we need to be doing our part as cultivators.
Did you know that in the USA, the legal cannabis growing industry uses 1% of the total electrical consumption and produces 15 million tons of greenhouse gases every year. This is the equivalent energy requirement for 1.7 million homes. Also uses 2 times as much water as grape crop! Cannabis is the most intensive crop in agriculture.
I’ll go back and find some reading for you Shed! There are a few relating just to the California cannabis industry and pertains only to the legal market. We did a bunch of reading and watching on the illegal market in the forests of the emerald triangle and the crazy damage these farmers are leaving behind, it made me really sad actually.
The grid in CA will be completely renewable by 2045. "California already gets about one-third of its electricity from solar, wind and other renewable energy sources, and appears on its way toward hitting the 50 percent mark in another decade or so. But creating an all-renewable electricity grid — completely free of traditional energy from natural gas or other fossil fuels — could be a monumental task. Stepping up California’s efforts to combat climate change, the state Legislature on passed SB 100, requiring utilities to generate all their electrical power from renewable sources by 2045." It was signed by Jerry Brown and is now law.