Georgia Tech students use solar power to help Atlanta animal nonprofit [Video]

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – What if you could use your passion to help others? A group of Georgia Institute of Technology students are using solar power to help an animal welfare organization.

The five students are ambassadors with RE-volv; an organization that helps nonprofits go solar. They reached out to LifeLine Animal Project in February 2023 about using renewable energy to help them save millions of dollars. Dollars that could go back to helping Atlanta’s animals find their forever homes.

“It helps the animal shelter, it helps the students and it also helps the environment as well,” said Julia Fleischman, a student at Georgia Tech.

“A success story here is a home, getting healthy enough to be in a home,” said Tracey Thompson, Executive Director with Lifeline Animal Project.

The students teamed up with the nonprofit to install solar panels that could offset 200 tons of carbon emissions …