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feeling unexpectedly emotional as we visit saerbeck, a town of just 7200 in central germany that formed a climate municipality. they produce 4.5x the electricity they need, and have developed a whole array of climate solutions. one of them? a climate action curriculum that starts in kindergarten.

the municipality purchased land that was once used as ammunition storage and built a 6mW solar array, a bunch of wind energy, biogas digestion and compost operation, as well as an ethos of solution-finding. over 4000 children a year visit the bioenery park to learn, experiment, and camp

they’ve recently opened a plant that dries the slurry from sewage into a product that can be burnt like coal with far less environmental impact they treat all of this work like it is just common sense. by the end of the decade they’ll be producing 10x the electricity they use.

and it’s all beautiful. there’s apple trees and beekeeping zones and places for people to sit and reflect. and the bio energy park actually makes money for the municipality by leasing land to clean energy startups. it’s inspiring to see what it actually looks like to go all in on climate action.