Green Energy Futures

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.

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, we return to a familiar place, the Kinney Family Earthship, to see how it holds up in a Canadian prairie winter.

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, we explore those pesky myths surrounding solar energy. From snow to efficiency, there is a rich body of myths to shatter. See blog, photos and more: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/solar-myths

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the largest biogas production facility in Alberta.

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, we explore some of the most pernicious myths associated with wind energy.

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, Peter Amerongen of Habitat Studio shows us his methodology for insulating a home to reach net-zero.

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we look at Carl Lauren of Kimberley B.C. and the rebate program he helped create that is making his city greener. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/kimberley-green-building-rebate

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we look back on 2015, the year that marked the dawning of the age of the net-zero home. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/favourite-stories-2015-part-2

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we recount how 2015 was a banner year for green energy. We look back at the stories that made it happen. Photo courtesy of Dave Cournoyer (daveberta.ca) Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/favourite-stories-2015-part-1

This week on the CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we look at Vitoria-Gasteiz one of the greenest cities in the world and what they did to get more than half of the trips in the city by walking. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/vitoria-gasteiz-green-capital

This week, on CKUA radio's Green Energy Futures podcast we present the story of Vitoria-Gastiez, Europe's green capital for 2012 and one of the greenest cities in the world. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/vitoria-gasteiz-green-capital

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures episode, we look at the explosion of green energy jobs in B.C. and around the world. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/renewable-energy-jobs

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we look at Evansdale Community League and how they invested in solar as an investment in community. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/evansdale-community-solar

In this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures episode, we speak with Bruce Nilles, director of Beyond Coal, the Sierra Club campaign to end the use of coal-fired electricity. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/beyond-coal-phaseout-alberta

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures episode, we visit the largest solar farm in Western Canada at the Green Acres hutterite colony in Southern Alberta. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/hutterite-solar-western-canada-biggest