Find out more about our Reverse Course series here. Climate-fueled disasters have ravaged Puerto Rico’s electrical system several times in recent years. Now, as another hurricane season opens, many ...
In the densely forested mountains of central Puerto Rico, nonprofit Casa Pueblo has captured the world's attention for its efforts to turn the municipality of Adjuntas into the island-commonwealth’s ...
This article originally appeared in Nexus Media News and Next City as part of a series that looks at how cities are tackling inequality and the climate crisis. A Spanish-language version of this ...
Ten months after Hurricane Maria, Adjuntas still loses power any time a heavy rain or wind pounds the rickety power lines feeding this town high in the central mountains of Puerto Rico. That leaves ...
Arturo Massol displays one of the solar-powered light bulbs that are helping to light Adjuntas. Photo by Ruben Salgado Escudero Electricity might be in short supply in this mountain community, but ...
When Hurricane Maria battered Puerto Rico and decimated the Caribbean island's power grid five years ago, the lights stayed on in one building in the mountain town of Adjuntas. The Casa Pueblo ...
It’s Thursday, March 16, and a rural community in Puerto Rico now has its own microgrid. Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, is celebrating a milestone this week as it completes the final phase in a project to ...
ADJUNTAS, Puerto Rico - September is ordinarily the beginning of harvest in the cool, crisp mountains of central Puerto Rico. Coffee farmers pluck the ripe arabica cherries from pregnant plants and ...