00:05What's the status of the planet?
00:07I think the short answer is we're gradually turning it into a giant artifact.
00:11Humans have such a reach. Human technology gives us such a reach.
00:16We are gradually creating a planet that is in essence artificial.
00:20And that means we have to think differently about how we manage it.
00:23When people understand, they can appreciate.
00:28And when they don't understand, they get all frustrated and confused and riled up and angry.
00:34It is a little bit of a tough sell right now.
00:38But solar panels on your roof as a status symbol, maybe that's where we go.
00:46Instead of having the big fancy SUV, maybe you're the guy in the block that's got all the solar panels
00:51and is the cool man.
00:53It takes more than sunlight to power this house.
00:58These students found an energy source more powerful than anything their province ever created.
01:03And it honestly took me a couple weeks when I left Washington, D.C. for me to take a step
01:08back and realize what the team had done.
01:10It's time to discover Alberta solar heroes who are determined to change the status quo.
01:19What is all of this going to be like 30 years from now, 50 years from now?
01:23You know, all of those million decisions that we all make when we become adults ourselves.
01:30So I think that it's essential, it's pertinent that all of us think about how our everyday choices affect not
01:37only our lives but the lives of people like Kaya.
01:41Because it's their world.
01:43But as soon as you say, oh by the way we need to take it apart and move it across
01:46the continent, they're like, oh that's too risky, I can't advise you on that.
01:51So we were kind of a bit on our own.
01:55Team Alberta had their share of challenges in building a house for world competition.
02:00But the team found a way to make it work and dare to put their work up against the best
02:05in the world.
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