the Abundance Project: Wêyôtan
Working with non-profit social enterprise partners, we connect investors with clean-energy projects to implement solar and other green retrofits on buildings owned by First Nations, faith communities and non-profits.
Faithful Footprints
Newo is the Alberta ambassador for a program that aims to help the United Church of Canada reduce carbon emissions from church buildings by 80 percent by 2050 through energy-efficient retrofit.
education & training
A key driver for Newo’s solar work is to address marginalized community members’ need for steady employment, With that in mind, we aim to train and ultimately hire people with barriers to employment.
Past initiatives
Pecamu Makoce
Pecamu Makoce (“fixing the Earth”) is a program combining the work of healing the earth with the work of healing our hearts and souls, pairing energy-efficiency and solar-installation work with holistic life skills development.
MESC Food Sovereignty Initiative
Newo is working with the Maskwacis Education Schools Commission (MESC) to develop a pathway to supply the school kitchens with healthy, culturally appropriate, ecologically sustainable and economically sensible food.
Sunrise Co-op
As Canada’s aging farming population retires, we are about to witness the largest transfer of prairie land in Canada’s history. Will it be large corporate farms that dominate the land? Or can we secure a future for young farmers using ecological, ethical practices?