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[Music]
hey I’m Alex honald and I’m here at Walt
Disney World Resort learning a little
bit about what the park has done with
solar energy to power the park through
solar and also learning about the
interplay with nature and the park
[Music]
here hello hey Alex so nice to finally
meet you I’m so excited you’re here nice
to meet you too tell me about solar in
the park I would love to tell you about
it you know we really want to do the
best job we can to make sure that we’re
providing an awesome experience and also
doing right by Nature solar is one of
the best opportunities that we have to
try to have a renewable source of energy
for everything that you see going on
around us I feel the same way I’ve spent
uh yeah more than 10 years supporting a
a solar nonprofit sporting some solar
projects around the world definitely
think that it’s one of the best
solutions that human he has for so many
different
issues there is work going on all around
the world to try to do the best job that
we can having fully renewable
energy Disneyland Paris is putting in
the largest solar canopy in
Europe here in Florida we have lots of
sun and we want to make use of
it we’ve got four theme parks and guest
areas all throughout Walt Disney World
which is about two times as big as
Manhattan it’s huge huge and currently
there are about 300 acres of solar
arrays that are providing energy
[Music]
here looking at the solar array because
you have to have a gap around the
outside there’s a surprising amount of
space outside of the aray I’m always
looking for places where we can put in a
habitat for wildlife and we put these
different flowering plants in and we
figured out what has the biggest impact
on
biodiversity looking at the pollinator
patch and just seeing how vibrant it is
and how much life there is I think it’s
important to remember when we look at
something like this that it’s alive and
healthy and doing great if you’re used
to a super manicure PR used to perfect
flowers everywhere you look at this and
think like someone should mow this like
there’s something wrong with this this
is the point this is a whole city with
tons and tons of life doing different
things this is the whole
[Applause]
idea one of the great things about Epcot
is it’s basically giant pollinator
Garden totally especially this time of
year there’s flowers absolutely
everywhere if there’s room we’re going
to see if we can make it beautiful you
know there’s never a bad time to be
inspired by Nature you can see
caterpillars feeding on plants you can
hear the insects flying around and you
can even hear the birds up top probably
these are the purple
Mart hey I’d love you to meet Martin you
can tell us all about these purple hey
nice to meet you nice to meet you so
these here are purple martin they are
the largest swallow in North America and
and we have 22 of these net structures
here across property this is especially
cool these guys are part of a guild
called long distance migrants they came
actually all the way up from Brazil so
these ones had a 3,000 M
Journey last year here on property we
had over 1,000 Purple Martin chicks
hatch oh wow yeah that’s cool we also
use some GPS units as well as radio
telemetry tacking devices to look at the
behavior of our Martin some of those
tags actually have solar panels on them
they actually all have on because
they’re so small they don’t have
internal battery pretty incredible they
we for a year and then during that
Health assessment when we collect all
the adults this one we actually take it
[Music]
off thanks so much for showing me the
nest it’s really inspiring to see what
you guys are doing yeah it was great to
meet you uh it was great to have someone
else crank down the nest for me so I
didn’t have to get my arm B in today oh
know my pleasure my pleasure well thank
you so much for the tour today it’s
incredible to see what you guys are
doing my pleasure thank you for coming
out
[Music]
[Music]

For Earth Month, Alex Honnold visited Walt Disney World to find out how the Sunshine State’s namesake is helping to sustainably power the park while also boosting biodiversity.

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