‘Community champions’ are recruiting their neighours to capture heat images of their homesResidents and business owners in Georgetown, P.E.I., are being enlisted to help their town become climate-neutral. Researchers at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) have asked locals to take pictures of their buildings using infrared cameras, which capture heat leaks, as well as with humidity-measuring hygrometers. The data is being collected this month in a new survey, part of the researchers efforts to help Georgetown become a net-zero community — meaning a municipality that reduces at least as many carbon emissions as it creates. The project is being led by UPEI working with community volunteers its researchers call "community champions," who are helping get the word out throughout the community. Professor Kuljeet Grewal says that his team is trying to get up to 350 buildings in Georgetown to participate by the end of March.
