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Looks like the southwest corner of Saskatchewan is absolute best for sun exposure. Though, the whole zone south of Saskatoon gets high sun exposure.

On 2019-06-28, I searched the Saskatchewan provincial website for maps and reports about solar coverage and wildlife migration. You can find a lot of map information on the Saskatchewan map data site. Just not about sunlight and wildlife migration.

So I let Duckduckgo show me where to find "solar intensity map insolation saskatchewan". And you can find a lot of help at Energy Hub. Even focusing on specific provinces, such as Saskatchewan. Saskatchewan receives the highest amount of solar energy in Canada. You can map the photovoltaic potential yourself using the data from Natural Resources Canada. If that's what you seek.

Saskatchewan Solar Exposure. EnergyHub.org

Alternative map source: Ecosmartsun.ca

Previously: Get started for Concentrating Solar in Canada?

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Fascinating to learn how compassion for animals can improve how sustainable our society is. You too can learn a bit from the Sustainability Agenda's interview with Rachel Dreskin, Compassion in World Farming.

Apparently:

  • We use 50% of inhabitable land for agriculture
  • We use 80% of agricultural land to feed or grow meat
  • We can achieve a situation where farming matches the advertising images if we can modify our diets to a lower proportion of meat eating

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The Saint George Rainway is a great local project that

  • centers urban microwatersheds and green rainwater infrastructure
  • connects a design professional with community members as visualizer and facilitator (urban curation, based on Raoul Bunschoten's Urban Flotsam)
  • forms a "crew" around idea of making the greenway real through engaging the community, then city planners, then city engineering

This article summarizes what Bryn Davidson shared with me about how activism and community brought about the [Saint George Rainway][101].

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You can examine bright visual representations of temperature history for nearly any country using a tool that the Institute for Environmental Analytics has shared, called Show Your Stripes.

For Canada, our stripes:

In the image above, we see annual average temperatures for Canada from 1901-2018 using data from Berkeley Earth.

Let's compare that to the global stripes for annual average temperatures from 1850-2018 using data from UK Met Office.