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In Green Energy Futures' whirlwind tour of wind energy myths we learned that the only significant health effect of wind farms is that they annoy some people. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

133. A whirlwind tour of wind energy myths

David Dodge January 25, 2016Renewable Energy, Wind Leave a Comment

By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson It seems to happen with every new technology. It …

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Jason Rioux's shipping container cabin. The cabin was built out of seven sea containers in a hub and spoke pattern near Bobcaygeon, Ontario. This incredibly innovative sea container cabin is powered by a small 1 kW solar system and is packed with energy efficiency innovation - probably part of the reason the video has more than 100k views on YouTube. Photo Courtesy of Jason Rioux

130. Green Energy Futures: Our favourite stories from 2015 from net-zero to sea container cabin

David Dodge January 4, 2016Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Leave a Comment

By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson The year 2015 may well go down as the …

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Highlight of 2015 - Dan Hofer, financial boss, David Vonesch of Skyfire Energy and Jake Hofer electrician with Green Acres Farm near Bassano, Alberta pose in front of their 2 megawatt solar farm that consists of more than 7,600 solar modules that produce the electricity to run Green Acre's recycling and farming operations. Photo David Dodge GreenEnergyFutures.ca

129. Green Energy: The highlights of 2015

David Dodge December 30, 2015Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Leave a Comment

By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson No question, 2015 will be remembered as a banner …

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Even the suburbs of Vitoria-Gasteiz are green and pedestrian friendly. Photo, David Dodge

128. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Spain’s green capital is made for walking

David Dodge December 14, 2015Biogas, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy 2 Comments

By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Change is hard. Green energy enthusiasts talk a lot …

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According to Penelope Comette of the Pembina Institute and the Green Jobs Map there are 14,100 renewable energy jobs in B.C. Photo David Dodge

127. Renewable energy jobs a big growth sector

David Dodge December 7, 2015Hydro, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Leave a Comment

By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson By any metric, the renewable energy sector is a …

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Approximately 13 million tonnes of coal are mined at Highvale (adjacent to Wabamun Lake in Alberta) each year and delivered to TransAlta’s Sundance and Keephills coal-fired power plants. Photo David Dodge

125. Coal phase out case study: What Alberta can learn from Washington State

David Dodge November 23, 2015Renewable Energy Leave a Comment

Renewable energy made up half of all the new power plants constructed in the world …

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Dan Hofer hands me a carrot from the cool storage room on the Green Acres Hutterite Colony. These carrots are for colony use, but these are the same you might see at a farmers market in the region. Photo David Dodge

124. Green Acres, Hutterites invest in solar to run the farm and more

David Dodge November 16, 2015Renewable Energy, Solar 5 Comments

By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson You’ve seen them before, though they don’t tend to …

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Edmonton's Energy Transition Strategy seeks to reduce emissions by 35%, reduce individual energy use by 25% and get 10% of our electricity from local renewable energy sources by 2035. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

123. Mayor Don Iveson on Edmonton’s landmark Energy Transition Strategy

David Dodge November 9, 2015Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Waste Energy Leave a Comment

By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Climate change is often portrayed as this giant, fuzzy, …

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Mayor Gregor Robertson of Vancouver says "In our greenest city plan we have a goal to double the number of green jobs in the city." More than 3,000 of the clean energy jobs found in the Clean Energy Jobs map are in Vancouver. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

120. Vancouver to go 100 per cent renewable

David Dodge October 12, 2015Renewable Energy 1 Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney It may have left everyone not from Vancouver green …

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Abasi Sanders shows off one of the creatively designed wind turbines created by students involved in the TREC Education Capture the Wind program in a Toronto school. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

119. Students capture the wind with TREC Environmental Education in Ontario

David Dodge September 7, 2015Renewable Energy Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Tomorrow’s renewable energy leaders don’t just spring from the …

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Science teacher Stephanie Bennett with two alumni - all veterans of the Cochrane High School Sustainable Development Committee. Successive committees have built seven major projects at the school including solar, energy efficiency and gardens. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

118. Cochrane students install solar and get new town policy permitting renewable energy

David Dodge August 31, 2015Buildings, Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney There’s a quote from cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead that …

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Here in Halifax you can peek in and get a view of the super chilled mass of rock that provides the district cooling in the Aldnerney 5 project.

117. Sustainability snapshots: How Halifax, Tallinn, Hannover and Ottawa are learning from each other to make their cities more sustainable

David Dodge July 20, 2015Buildings, Electric Vehicles, Geothermal, Renewable Energy Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney If you’ve hung around some of the wackier, more …

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Solar flowers at Clarkson Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Region of Peel in Mississauga, Ontario. This flamboyant solar system is installed right next door to a former hybrid bus plant that also has a 427 kW solar system on it's roof. More than 23,000 renewable energy projects have been built in Ontario since the launch of the Green Energy Act in 2009. Photo David Dodge, Green EnergyFutures.ca

111. Ontario: Canada’s energy transition success – the untold story

David Dodge June 8, 2015Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind 3 Comments

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When you look at Ontario’s greenhouse gas reductions you …

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Austin Brown of the National Renewable Energy Lab keeps this hunk of coal on his desk as a reminder of what a kilowatt-hour of electricity actually is. Burning this softball sized piece of coal will give you roughly a kilowatt-hour worth of electricity. Photo courtesy of Austin Brown NREL.

102. Everything you wanted to know about a kilowatt-hour but were afraid to ask

David Dodge March 16, 2015Renewable Energy Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney We’re very lucky here at Green Energy Futures to …

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No two homes are the same in the Craik Eco-Village. There are tiny homes, homes made of straw bales, homes made out of insulated concrete forms – each home is its own unique recipe for building eco-home. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

99. Craik, Saskatchewan: The little Eco-Village that could

David Dodge February 23, 2015Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind 3 Comments

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney About ten years ago the town of Craik, Saskatchewan, …

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94. Energiewende: Addressing the myths of Germany’s energy transition

David Dodge January 19, 2015Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Energiewende – pronounced phonetically as “en-er-gee-ven-da,” is the German …

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Toronto may have one wind turbine in the core of the city but Medicine Hat now has three two-megawatt wind turbines right in the city. In a public-private partnership the city agreed to buy the wind-powered electricity produced by the turbines for 20 years. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/88-welcome-canadas-only...

92. Our favourite Green Energy Futures stories of 2014

David Dodge December 29, 2014Renewable Energy, Solar, Waste Energy Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney We had another amazing year at Green Energy Futures. …

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This concentrated solar thermal plant will supply superheated fluid to the city’s natural gas fired power plant, enough to generate one megawatt of electricity. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

88. Canada’s first concentrated solar thermal plant

David Dodge November 17, 2014Renewable Energy, Solar 1 Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney More than three years ago Ted Clugston was showing …

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Himark Biogas has trademarked the process of integrating cattle, biogas and ethanol operations and they have actually licensed it for use by other companies in the US. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

84. Integrated bio-refinery

David Dodge October 8, 2014Biofuels, Biogas, Renewable Energy Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Alberta is known for its beef – or more …

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81. Chasing Net Zero: Go big or go home

David Dodge July 14, 2014Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Energy Labelling, Net Zero, Renewable Energy, Solar 4 Comments

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney American poet, philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau once …

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