Babcock Ranch Featured on PBS NewsHour as Part of Ongoing Climate Change Series
Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NewsHour recently did a profile on Babcock Ranch as a part of an ongoing series “Peril and Promise: The Challenge of Climate Change.”
In an attempt to “do it the right way,” developer Syd Kitson is building Babcock Ranch, an 18,000-acre planned community just north of Ft. Meyers, with hope that it can operate almost entirely on solar power.
Learn more and watch the full segment here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/can-an-entire-town-run-on-solar
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