Green Spaces, Green Heating and Green Homes landed Josh in Blatchford

399. Green spaces, green energy and green homes brought Josh to Blatchford

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 Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community – Part 3  In part 3 of our series on Blatchford …

Solar and Community exergizes urban living for Heather and Justin

398. Solar Power and Community Energize Urban Living for Heather and Justin

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Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community – Part 2 – Living in Blatchford In part 2 of …

Blatchford, the largest planned carbon neutral community takes flight

397. Blatchford, the Largest Planned Carbon Neutral Community in North America is “Wildly Ambitious”

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Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community – Part 1  By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Blatchford is the largest …

Energy Innovation Fair -0 Red Deer Oct. 18-19

386. The Energy Innovation Fair is back in Red Deer Oct. 18-19 – Join us there!

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Energy Innovation Fair Bigger and Better than Ever By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca The Energy Innovation …

Geothermal Rising - Big Breakthrough Coming

384. Geothermal Rising – Big breakthrough is coming

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Geothermal—Using Earth’s Energy to Save the Earth By David Dodge (Adapted from original article written by …

Geothermal breakthrough

380. Cracking the geothermal nut – breakthrough can provide heat and power anywhere

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca EAVOR has pioneered a new kind of geothermal that can provide …

Climate Ready Home Part 1 - Mitigation

352. Climate Ready Home I – Save money, reduce emissions and get on the pathway to net-zero

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Changing for Climate Series * You can make your home super energy efficient, eliminate your …

Rigs to Renewables

351. Rigs to renewables – One man’s journey

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Changing for Climate Series * Lewis Lix got a job on the oil rigs in …

DIY Net-Zero

348. Family’s 20-year DIY home retrofit journey ends by getting to net-zero

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Changing for Climate Series* (David Dodge of Green Energy Futures worked with the City of …

Michaela Jones, architect with the Salvation Army

345. Salvation Army to save $6 million with net-zero-ready Grace Village

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 By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca The Salvation Army owns 1,400 buildings in Canada. It is one …

Jean-Marie Robert with model Air Source Heat Pump

332. Save the world with Heat Pumps 101 Magical Mystery Tour

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Heat pumps – it seems like you hear about them everywhere …

Devon Winczura of Envirotech Geothermal

331. Geothermal 101 – How to heat your home with 400% efficiency

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In this week’s episode we meet up with Devon Winczura and Steve Oslanski from Envirotech …

Carbon Busters net-zero homes in Blatchford

240. Carbon Busters – Building net-zero in Blatchford

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Carbon Busters may seem like a strange name for a builder, but the company has …

Greta Thunberg in Edmonton, Alberta

2019–The year of Greta Thunberg

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Time Magazine named Greta Thunberg “person of the year” and climate change is the news …

Reverend Annabelle Wallace and elder Les Young

237. God’s green home is net-zero

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A few years back, then-minister of Westmount Presbyterian Church Reverend Annabelle Wallace and her congregation …

Greenest School in Canada

236. Greenest School in Canada has a solar-geothermal greenhouse

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans “Words without actions are meaningless,” Lacombe Composite High School …

Blatchford-Town-Centre

234. Blatchford: Largest Carbon Neutral Community in Canada

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  By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Edmontonians have already been recognized as pioneers of …

Jacob Komar and the geothermal revival

222. Geothermal Revival – Getting to net-zero the easy way

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans Edmonton engineer Jacob Komar thinks there’s a better way …

Derek Leahy4

220. Alberta farms fertile land for Rural Routes to Climate Solutions

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans When Derek Leahy told his Ottawa friends he was …

Geothermal agricultural revolution?

217. Geothermal’s promise of endless heat for agriculture

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans Alberta journalist Derek Leahy is a farm-hand—and passionate about …