Green Energy Futures

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

This week of CKUA's Green Energy Futures segment we talk to Lliam Hildebrand one of the founders of Iron and Earth, a boilermaker who joined other tradespeople in calling for renewable energy job training for out of work oil workers. "Our primary goals are number one, to build up the workforce capacity to build renewable energy projects in Canada and in Alberta. Secondly, we want to help build up...

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we examine how PEI replaced expensive diesel power with the highest proportion of wind power in North America. See blog and video: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/pei-rocks-wind-power

This week, on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the NorthWest tip of Prince Edward Island, home of the Wind Energy Institute of Canada. The institute is a self-funded leader when it comes to real-world application of wind technology.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we take a look at Calgary's renewable energy powered infrastructure and how it will pay off when Alberta'a carbon tax goes into effect.

This week, on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit some Alberta students who want to call the shot when it comes to climate change education. For the second year in a row, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley comes to hear what these stupendous students have to say.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the 12th annual Canadian-German wind and solar energy conference to learn how financing works for renewable energy.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit a wind farm just outside the town of Morse, Saskatchewan. It is one of the province's newest energy projects and a sign of things to come since Premier Brad Wall has signaled a desire to get 50 per cent of the province's electric capacity from renewable energy by 2030.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we meet Harold Orr, a pioneer of the passive house movement. He explains how the concept originated in Saskatchewan.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the first certified passive house in Saskatchewan. It's an ironic twist, since the passive house concept was created in the province back in the 1970s.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the Alberta Energy Efficiency Alliance conference and discover the incredible potential of energy efficiency to save you and me money and create new jobs. See our blog to learn more: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/energy-efficiency-alberta

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit a carbon neutral laneway home unlike anything we've seen before. With innovative use of a solar wall, air-source heat pumps, and water-based energy storage, this home looks to revolutionize the green building industry.