Green Energy Futures

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

Edmonton launched it's Energy Transition Strategy earlier this year - we talk to Mayor Don Iveson about what energy transition might look like in a city with one of the dirtiest electricity supplies in Canada. Green communities, solar power and energy efficiency are all ideas being explored. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/iveson-edmonton-energy-transition-strategy

A CKUA Green Energy Futures exclusive interview with Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson about oil city's strategy to transition from dirty to clean energy. For the full story and a full length feature interview see story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/iveson-edmonton-energy-transition-strategy

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast we go to solar school. Randal Benson of Gridworks Energy Group has helped train more than 700 electricians and interested folks. Hear their stories! Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/solar-pv-training-job

On this week's CKUA Radio Green Energy Futures podcast: How Kimberley BC began mining the sun on the site of the once largest lead-zinc mine in Canada. Learn more: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/sunmine-kimberley-bc-solar-pv

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures - Mayor Gregor Robertson was elected two terms ago on a pledge to make Vancouver the "Greenest City in the World." We talk to the mayor about their latest pledge - to use 100% renewable energy in Vancouver by 2050.

TREC Education grew out of the Toronto Renewable Energy Coop after they built the first urban wind turbine in North America in the heart of Toronto's Exhibition Place. This week on Green Energy Futures CKUA Radio feature we go to class with grade 5s at George Webster School in Toronto to learn how to capture the wind.

This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures - Since the high school Sustainable Development Committee started students at Cochrane High School in Alberta have raised more than $149,000 and carried out more than half a dozen solar, wind and energy efficiency projects. Then came the "notorious wind project." That's when they became "A" students in politics, helping their town develop a renewable...

Local leadership has proven to be the most effective at deploying effective sustainability solutions at all kinds. David heads to Toronto to learn how cities across the world going green.

Tillsonburg. If hearing that name brings to mind the Stomping Tom Connors song about working in the tobacco fields you're not alone. But Tillsonburg has undergone a modern makeover, the biggest employer in town isn't agriculture but Siemens. Over 400 people manufacture wind turbine blades at their Tillsonburg plant. We learn how they make these engineering marvels and the effect it's had on the to...

Calgary's LRT is an electrified transport success story. Not only does it boast high ridership numbers (3rd highest LRT ridership in North America) but it's also 100 per cent powered by wind energy. Learn more at http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/c-train-success-nenshi-calgary

Net-zero is a simple but powerful idea. A house that produces as much energy as it consumes over the course of a year. Now that idea is going across Canada. Five builders are going to build five net-zero houses each across Canada. Green Energy Futures checks out one of the builders in action.