Green Energy Futures

The e-bike revolution is underway! Sales are booming. We go for a ride in Edmonton's beautiful river valley with Leon Milner who swapped his car for an electric bike one year ago. Green Energy Futures CKUA Podcast. www.greenenergyfutures.ca

Neste is the largest producer of renewable biodiesel in the world. In this Green Energy Futures full-length interview we talk to Jeremy Baines, President of Neste U.S. about how at 3.4 trillion liters a Finnish oil company became the largest producer of renewable fuels in the world. See blog and CKUA Radion podcast at GreenEnergyFutures.ca

Jordan Solomon of Ecostrat says new standards and special Bioeconomy Development Zones could unleash a $31 billion biomass industry in Canada. That's this week on Green Energy Futures CKUA Radio Podcast. See blog, photos, and related stories: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/biomass-a-missing-link-in-canadas-future-sustainable-economy

PODCAST - This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures we learn there is 120 million tonnes of mostly waste biomass in Canada just waiting to used to produce biofuels, bioenergy and an assortment of other products. We speak with Jordan Soloman, president of Ecostrat, a Canadian biomass company working on the creation of Bioeconomy Development Zones to increase the use of this waste material. Als...

Neste, the company formerly know as Nest Oil is now the largest producer of renewable diesel in the world. This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures We talk to Jeremy Baines, president of Neste U.S. about how an oil company came to produce 3.4 trillion liters of renewable fuels every year. See blog and our full 30-minute interview: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/253-neste:-how-an-oi...

In part II of our interview with Edmonton solar engineer Faruq Vishram we talk about the more than a dozen solar projects he's working on and why 20 megawatts seems to be the magical scale at which solar is springing up in Canada. That's in this week's episode of CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures. See blog and part I on the solar hospital Faruq built: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/252-f...

Faruq Vishram was an Alberta guy who designed coal-fired coal plants – that is until they started closing coal plants. So he pivoted and today he's sought after to do solar projects around the world including a solar-powered hospital in Afghanistan.

Automakers may be investing $300 billion in electric vehicles and batteries, but the tell-tale sign that the world is going electric is the best-selling Ford F150 going electric says Matthew Klippenstein, EV industry watcher and columnist. See blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/250-ev-tipping-point-the-future-of-cars-is-electric

We've hit the electric vehicle tipping point. Surprised? According to EV expert and columnist Matthew Klippenstein the auto industry is investing $300 billion in the development of more than 500 new electric car models before 2025. Learn more in our blog: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/250-ev-tipping-point-–-the-future-of-cars-is-electric

Look to climate capitalism to recover from COVID-19 and building the sustainable economy of the future. So says Dan Woynillowicz of Clean Energy Canada. We follow the money to a future green economy with jobs, resilience and sustainability. That's this week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures. See blog and related stories: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/250-best-covid-recovery-is-climat...

This week travel with us to Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Arctic where youth are making a film called "Happening to Us" the story of how climate change is impacting their world in dramatic ways. The teen collective called TukTV took their film to the COP25 UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid in Dec. 2019 and left a powerful impression. See blog and trailer: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/24...

How do you improve recycling? Some say it's by making producers responsible. It's called Extended Producer Responsibility and a study in Alberta has found municipalities would save money, more would get recycled and emissions would be slashed. This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures we talk to Christina Siedel of the Alberta Recycling Council about how we can up our game when it comes to re...

More than half (58%) of the food that enters Canada's food system is wasted, filling landfills and releasing major greenhouse gas emissions. SPUD.ca wants to change all that. This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures we talk to Georgie Hyland of this Emerald Award-winning program from Alberta. Learn more on our blog: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/spud-ca-turns-the-table-on-food-was...

GREEN AND LEAN - The projects had to have indigenous ownership and they had to be renewable. At 3.9 cents/kWh the result was historically cheap renewable energy in Alberta. And for their part in all this, the Indigenous Electricity Working Group picked up an Emerald Award. We speak to Andres Filella, of the Metis Nation, a consultant to the working group. This is Part III in our collaborative prod...

The UN has declared 2021 to 2030 to be the Decade of Ecological Restoration and, thanks to the University of Alberta–based award-winning Land Reclamation International Graduate School (LRIGS), students in Alberta are taking up the challenge. That's this week on Green Energy Futures CKUA Radio podcast produced in collaboration with the Emerald Foundation's "What on Earth Can We Do" podcast. Learn m...

This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures we present the story of how Goodwill Impact Centre diverts close to 90% of waste from the landfill by reusing and recycling and creating jobs at the same time. We also chat with Kristin Arnot of the Edmonton ReUse Centre. This episode is produced in collaboration with the Emerald Foundation's What On Earth You Can We Do podcast. See story, links and m...

Jayman BUILT Homes in Alberta began including a solar system with every new home they built in Alberta in January 2019. One year later they have added more than one megawatt of solar to the Alberta grid – one home at a time! That's this week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures.

When you hear clean energy jobs, you might think solar, wind or geothermal? But the clean energy sector is much bigger encompassing electric vehicles, green buildings and much more – 400,000 jobs strong in Canada and growing faster than the rest of the economy. This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures we talk to Merran Smith of Clean Energy Canada about the growth of the clean energy sector....

75% of Canadians and even almost 50% of Albertans believe an energy transition is happening and that it will benefit us in the long run. But where are those jobs? Merran Smith and Clean Energy Canada have done work to define and track the sector and she says the sector already exists and grew 70% between 2010 and 2017. This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures we look at the emerging low carb...

Take a tour of Vivian Manasc's green penthouse suite – a project she describes as reimagining buildings as sustainable. Her firm took a metal-clad box on top of the Cambridge building and turned it into a sustainable glass bubble with a view. This and more this week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures in part II of our conversation with Vivian Manasc, green building pioneer. See photo gallery, bl...

Vivian Manasc has been designing it green for several decades. We talk to the architect who has been a pioneer of sustainable buildings, net-zero buildings and now she wants us to reimagine old buildings as energy-efficient and beautiful models of sustainability. That's this week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures episode. See blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/vivian-mana...

Godo Stoyke reveals Carbon Busters secret formula for their innovative net-zero homes being built in Edmonton's Blatchford, the largest sustainable community in the world. The homes are so efficient they require 94% less energy to heat. We take a look at these unique homes this week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures. Learn more in our blog and see photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episod...

When Shanthu Mano first learned her company would be the first builder to build net-zero homes in Edmonton's Blatchford, the largest carbon-neutral community in the world, she could picture herself living there. We talk to Shanthu and the first person to buy a net-zero home in this landmark project. Learn more in Green Energy Futures blog, and see photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/c...

Four stories that mattered from 2019 – This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures: Blatchford (the largest carbon-neutral community in the world), the largest solar project in Canada, solar for diesel and a solar-powered retrofitted net-zero University library from Calgary. See blog for links and more: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/2019-the-year-of-greta-thunberg

Green Energy Futures looks back on 2019, the year Greta Thumberg was named Time Magazine "Person of the Year" and climate change became the Canadian Press news story of the year. In this episode: Raffi writes a tribute song to Greta Thunberg, the first net-zero church and social housing project is built and a Red Deer car dealership builds the first Passive House car dealership in North America. S...