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70. Solar hot water 101

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, a Swiss naturalist accidentally built a prototype …

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67. Harvest Power: Energy and compost from rotten food

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Picture one meal in your day and imagine it …

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61. Learn about Alberta’s $380 million green technology fund

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When it comes to dealing with carbon emissions Alberta …

60. Phasing out coal in Alberta

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Energy Storage

57. Energy storage: Power-to-gas and better batteries

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When people think of energy storage, they think of …

James Callaghan and his two brothers run Maryland Farms, a 250 cow dairy operation that set up a biogas operation on their site two years ago. Behind him is the anaerobic digester.

56. Best stories of 2013

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney From Kent Rathwell, the inspiring owner of Sun Country …

Pam Goertzen of Climate Change Central shows off the Nest programmable thermostat.

55. Green Energy Futures holiday gift guide

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Whether you want to spread good word when it …

Rae-Anne Wadey of Great Canadian Solar working on the Eastgate Environment Canada building in Edmonton. Photo by David Dodge, Green Energy Futures.

53. The cheap solar revolution is upon us

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When you pass from one geologic age to another …

Tom Rand is an entrepreneur and cleantech expert. He's a senior advisor with the MaRS cleantech practice and a managing partner of the MaRS Cleantech Fund. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

51. Tom Rand and the MaRS Cleantech Fund

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney There is a popular, long-running how-to website that predates …

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50. Morgan Solar, a new kind of solar for the people

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney John Paul Morgan got the inspiration for starting a …

Cam Carver, CEO of Temporal Power with a 9,000 pound steel flywheel suspended by magnets and held in a vacuum to reduce friction. Photo David Dodge

49. The Energy storage revolution!

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Entrepreneurs, inventors and researchers all over the world are …

Bullfrog Power offices in Toronto

48. Bullfrog Power – the story behind the cute little frog

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Wendell Berry once famously wrote that eating is an …

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46. Biomass district heating in Sherwood Park

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney One country’s demonstration project is another country’s established technology. …

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45. Big idea: The distributed generation revolution

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Ever since I was a little kid three smoke …

Peter Amerongen led the construction of the first net-zero home in Edmonton, Alberta and continues to lead innovation by specializing in the construction of net-zero homes. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

41. Net-zero evolution: From the Star Trek Enterprise to utter simplicity

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The highly entertaining documentary “How William Shatner Changed the …

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39. Nanaimo: Turning waste into compost, carbon credits and electricity

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Ecologist Peter Marshall put it best. “Waste itself is …

T'Sou-ke Chief Gordon Planes

38. T’sou-ke First Nation goes all in on energy conservation and solar

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney During the salmon run the T’Sou-ke First Nation set …

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33. Landfill gas: How old garbage can generate electricity

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Apple cores, pumpkins, Christmas trees and the crusts your …

Receiving one of two daily biomass shipments at the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility at UBC. Photo David Dodge

32. UBC district heating: Low carbon Lego

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When you look through the University of British Columbia …

Cows in the cow barn eat when they are hungry and big rakes automatically collect manure from the floors to feed the biogas operation on on the Callaghan family farm in Lindsay, Ontario. Ontario has built about 30 similar projects that produce electricity, clean up environmental problems and creates economic diversification on the farm. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

31. Biogas: Closing the loop on cow poop

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney French fry oil, molasses, donuts and cow manure. No, …