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Part 1 - When Matthew Peneitz signed up with the Peace Corps to do work in Guatemala, it changed his life. The poverty he saw impacted him so much that when he returned home to the US, he sold his car for cash and headed back where he started Long Way Home, a non-profit that fights poverty, builds schools out of trash, and much more. 🟢 ⁠GreenEnergyFutures.ca⁠ ⁠CKUA.com⁠ Podcast ❤️ Subscribe Today...

Part 1 - When Matthew Peneitz signed up with the Peace Corps to do work in Guatemala, it changed his life. The poverty he saw impacted him so much that when he returned home to the US, he sold his car for cash and headed back where he started Long Way Home, a non-profit that fights poverty, builds schools out of trash, and much more. 🟢 GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast ❤️ Subscribe Today - W...

Agricultural tariffs imposed against Canada by China have been slashed, and Chinese EVs are coming to Canada thanks to a new deal struck by Prime Minister Mark Carney with China. The deal will allow 50,000 Chinese EVs into the Canadian market at a low tariff of 6% and more in the future. And at least half of that quota is reserved for EVs that will cost $35,000 or less in a market where there are...

Agricultural tariffs imposed against Canada by China have been slashed, and Chinese EVs are coming to Canada thanks to a new deal struck by Prime Minister Mark Carney with China. The deal will allow 50,000 Chinese EVs into the Canadian market at a low tariff of 6% and more in the future. And at least half of that quota is reserved for EVs that will cost $35,000 or less in a market where there are...

Great news! We finally have an all-Canadian Renewable Energy Market Outlook report! For a while, most of the renewable energy outlooks in Canada were based on information from the US. But the Canadian Renewable Energy Association and Dunsky Energy and Climate Advisors have teamed up to create their very first Market Outlook Report for Canada. We chatted with two of the authors, and they shared som...

Great news! We finally have an all-Canadian Renewable Energy Market Outlook report! For a while, most of the renewable energy outlooks in Canada were based on information from the US. But the Canadian Renewable Energy Association and Dunsky Energy and Climate Advisors have teamed up to create their very first Market Outlook Report for Canada. We chatted with two of the authors, and they shared som...

Roof-top solar is booming! A US-based solar company wanted to find out why, so they surveyed 2,000 homeowners. In the early days of solar, people did it for the environment, but that's all changed as Nick Hofer of SolarTech explains in the GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com podcast. Subscriber Today - we have more than 400 episodes. 🟢 ⁠GreenEnergyFutures.ca⁠ ⁠CKUA.com⁠ Podcast ❤️ Subscribe Today...

Roof-top solar is booming! A US-based solar company wanted to find out why, so they did a survey of 2,000 homeowners. In the early days of solar, people did it for the environment, but that's all changed as Nick Hofer of SolarTech explains in GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com podcast. Subscriber Today - we have more than 400 episodes. 🟢 GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast ❤️ Subscribe Today -...

Instead of diving into the details of the train wreck of 2025, which was a year of ups and downs politically, economically, and in other areas, we’re excited to share the Green Energy Futures Best of 2025.We’ve got inspiring tales about carbon-neutral communities, the wonders of heat pumps, a first-generation farmer finding success with solar and sheep, and Michael Liebreich’s “Pragmatic Climate R...

The clean energy transition seems unstoppable now, but back in 2011, Michael Liebreich, founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, exclaimed, "Yabasta," he was ready to say enough is enough with the UN COP process. "Yabasta is the rallying cry of the anti-globalists in the anti-capitalist, anti-globalists in Italy back then. And so I said, Yabasta, can we stop doing this? And the reas...

Prime Minister Mark Carney came to office with pretty solid climate credentials. But it seems climate policies are dropping like flies since his election. It seems Carney's MOU with Alberta to build an oil pipeline while relaxing more environmental rules was the last straw for Steven Guilbeault, who resigned his cabinet post over the deal. To dive beneath the headlines, we talked to Max Fawcet...

The folks who say clean energy can never satisfy primary energy demand have it all wrong, says Michael Liebreich in his essay on The Pragmatic Climate Reset. Due to the inefficiency of fossil fuels, only 68% of primary energy is provided by fossil fuels, he says. "The 1.5 degree [energy] transition is dead," he says, but "Transition like a tortoise is absolutely not dead." What...

In Michael Liebreich's Pragmatic Climate Reset, he calls for an end to polarizing all-or-nothing climate action. He says we can get to 90% clean energy by dropping the absolute goals of getting to 100% renewable energy and banning fossil fuels. Getting to 90% can be done efficiently, cost-effectively by focusing on the cheapest energy solutions and using some natural gas. And besides, he says, by...

The focus of the world has shifted dramatically since the election of President Donald Trump and in the wake of trade wars and economic woes that seem to dominate the news cycles. This has also led to climate change taking a back seat, and some critics are suggesting the energy transition is dead. Whoa, not so fast, says Michael Liebreich, investor, energy expert, and founder of Bloomberg New Ener...

What the world needs now is a Pragmatic Climate Reset. So says Michael Liebreich, investor, energy transition expert and the founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Driven by the potential catastrophic impacts posed by climate change people and the nations of the world have pushed to eliminate fossil fuels, move to 100% renewable energy and to get to net-zero by 2050.These are laudable goals, but...

FULL INTERVIEW - Canada lost a great athlete, statesman, and author this year when hockey legend Ken Dryden passed away. We reached into our radio archives for this exclusive interview carried out on the banks of the Athabasca River in 2003 when Ken Dryden participated in the Boreal Rendezvous canoe expedition from Fort McKay to Wood Buffalo National Park in Alberta. In this interview with David D...

Canada lost an amazing athlete, statesman and author this year when Ken Dryden passed away. I had the pleasure of joining Dryden on Boreal Rendezvous, an epic canoe adventure on the Athabasca River in 2003 in support of Boreal Forest conservation. This week, we remember Ken Dryden in this interview recorded on a sandbar on the Athabasca River. In Part 1 of our CKUA series, Ken shares the story of...

VIDEO - Nova Scotia is bullish on offshore wind power. They just offered leases for the development of 5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity. That's twice the annual electricity consumption in Nova Scotia. And they have already identified suitable areas for up to 60 gigawatts of offshore wind development. That's enough to provide 27% of Canada's electricity. Surprisingly, these will be the first o...

Nova Scotia is bullish on offshore wind power. They just offered leases for the development of 5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity. That's twice the annual electricity consumption in Nova Scotia. And they have already identified suitable areas for up to 60 gigawatts of offshore wind development. That's enough to provide 27% of Canada's electricity. Surprisingly, these will be the fir...

Amidst the trade wars, geopolitical and economic turmoil, Prime Minister Mark Carney is fast-tracking what he calls nation-building mega projects. BUT "Instead of ‘building fossil fuel and mining mega projects,’ Evan Ferrari says we need to build 'decentralized megaprojects' that are “small hyper local projects thattogether add up to a massive megaproject.” Evan Ferrari is the executi...

VIDEO Solar's meteoric rise has also unfortunately attracted unsavoury characters, AKA solar scammers. This drives solar veteran Greg Sauer crazy. These fly-by-night solar sellers are telling people exactly what they want to hear, and some are paying more than 3 times more than the going rate. Greg Sauer wants this to stop! We talk to Greg this week on Green Energy Futures CKUA podcast, plus w...

Solar's meteoric rise has also unfortunately attracted unsavoury characters, AKA solar scammers. This drives solar veteran Greg Sauer crazy. These fly-by-night solar sellers are telling people exactly what they want to hear, and some are paying more than 3 times more than the going rate. Greg Sauer wants this to stop! We talk to Greg this week on Green Energy Futures CKUA podcast, plus we shar...

Driven by the US trade war and Canada passed its Nation Building bill to fast-track nation-building projects to support economic and energy independence. Monica Curtis of the Pembina Institute thinks we need to rethink the idea of nation-building mega projects and is proposing Canada launch a massive wave of building retrofit projects to support energy security, affordability for Canadians and to...

VIDEO - Chris Packard of Firefly Solar was walking home from work when he noticed the Pedal Pub mobile bar bikes were plugged in. So he thought, "These should be solar powered." Turns out Pedal Pub thought it was a great idea.

Chris Packard of Firefly Solar was walking home from work when he noticed the Pedal Pub mobile bar bikes were plugged in. So he thought, "These should be solar powered." Turns out Pedal Pub thought it was a great idea. 🟢 GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast ❤️ Subscribe Today - We have more than 400 episodes! ✅ BLOG - GreenEnergyFutures.ca ✅ PODCAST - https://open.spotify.com/show/1...