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Jul 2022
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After Hurricane Maria knocked out power on Puerto Rico for months, Ada Ramona Miranda Alvarado worked to protect communities on the island against future outages, using solar power.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3OjofW2.

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