Green Energy Futures

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we go to the Gener8 Youth Energy and Climate Leadership Summit where 40 teachers and 80 students are learning about Alberta's energy future and taking action on their own. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/166-gener8ing-environmental-leaders

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we look at the ongoing push to add EnerGuide ratings to homes so buyers know what they are getting. See story and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/165-energuide

This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures episode EnergieSprong means "Energy Leap." The idea is to retrofit every single building in the Netherlands to a net-zero standard by 2050. Sound crazy? It's early days, but they have already begun the work and it's a real game changer. Learn more in our blog: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/the-sprong-has-sprung

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures feature, the Heights or Skeena project is an 85-unit multi-family building built to the passive house standard in Vancouver, Canada. It is the largest passive house in Canada and the project led this Canadian city to adopt the passive house standard in its plan to make all new buildings zero emissions by 2020.

We present Part 2 of of our Best of 2016 Green Energy Futures series on CKUA Radio. This week we visit Summerside PEI a city powered by the wind, a straw-bale home in Edmonton and Nova Scotia where they are selling negawatts into the grid! See blog and photos and more: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/2016-year-in-review

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we look back at some of our favourite stories from the year that was 2016. See videos, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/2016-year-in-review

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures' podcast, we visit a social housing project in Vancouver, B.C. that replaced it's boilers and did a lighting retrofit to save $6,000 each year! See blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/161-social-housing-retrofits-saves-real-money

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we give you some great ideas for green giving that will take the stress out of the holiday shopping season.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we take a long, lingering look at Alberta's upcoming carbon levy and all that means for the average Albertan. greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/159-when-the-levy-breaks

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we take a quick look at the state of renewable energy in the world and a long look at the support needed for workers affected by a transition away from coal-fired electricity. greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/158-a-just-transition

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit yet another straw-bale home, this time in Edmonton, Alberta. Nora Bumanis is the harpist for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra so noise can be a big problem for her neighbours. Luckily, straw-bale construction was the perfect fit for her needs. See video, blog and photos: greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/157-albertans-making-homes-straw

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the home of Lance and Wendy Olson, a net-zero home that just so happens to be made of straw. See video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/157-albertans-making-homes-straw

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we chat with Stephen MacDonald, CEO of EfficiencyOne, Nova Scotia's energy efficiency utility. The first of its kind in Canada, EfficiencyOne has already saved the province more than $100 million. 🟢 GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast ❤️ Subscribe Today - We have more than 400 episodes! ✅ BLOG - GreenEnergyFutures.ca ✅ PODCAST - https...

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we check in with Tom Rand, the self-styled "Climate Capitalist." We first met Rand three years ago but so much has changed in such a short time that we decided to get caught up about Canada's cleantech investment landscape.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we continue our look at Cornelius Koster's laneway house in Calgary.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we meet Tom Jackman, owner of Simple Solar. He explains a bit about solar thermal technology in general and his own patented design. greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/solar-thermal-101

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the town of Vulcan, Alberta, the Star Trek capital of Canada, who have recently completed a lovely solar park. greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/vulcan-solar-park

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit Leduc, Alberta, a city which just installed the largest rooftop solar array in Canada. Check out our blog for more on this groundbreaking (or should I say, roof breaking?) project: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/leduc-rooftop-solar

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we check out the Bull Creek wind farm, which has the distinction of powering over 500 Alberta schools through a power purchase agreement. Check out the blog at: greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/bull-creek-powers-schools

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we tag along with some amazing students as they deliver a white paper on action on climate change in schools to Alberta's ministers of education and environment. See blog, video and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/150-students-meet-ministers

Power to the people! This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we look at a nifty little startup out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This co-operative is bringing solar investments to the little guy. See blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/saskatchewan-solar-co-operative

Summerside PEI replaced nearly all of its expensive diesel generated electricity with wind power by building a smart grid and storing energy in residents furnaces and hot water heaters. This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures hear how Summerside went from zero to 46% wind power in less than one decade! See blog, video and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/148-summerside-community-w...

Tom Rand sold his first company in the 90s. It was called Voice Courier and the automated voice response technology behind it underpins most customer service phone systems today. Since then he's moved onto greener pastures, building, investing and advising cleantech companies through the MaRS business incubator in Toronto. Learn what you need to have in order to build the next gamechanging cleante...

With solar dropping in price don't be shocked when you start seeing solar everywhere. Learn how and why the price has dropped so much and what's happening in Canada's solar industry on this week's Green Energy Futures program on CKUA Radio.

Bob Chelmick's Solar Cabin in the Woods is the near mythical home of "The Road Home" radio series on the CKUA Radio Network. It's solar powered, wood heated and it's from this cabin that Bob produces his ground breaking radio series. Also see Green Energy Futures blog, video and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/bob-chelmicks-solar-powered-cabin