The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is striving to be a LEED Platinum building and to meet the Living Building Challenge certification, a standard met by only three other buildings in the world. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

29. Canada’s greenest building

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney While some buildings feature stylish fountains out front, the …

Dan Balaban is the CEO of Greengate Power and as we’ve described him on the program before, a clean energy cowboy who’s building big wind projects in Alberta’s deregulated electricity market with hardly any local government help. “The federal government should be very clear that we favour clean sources of energy in this country to dirty sources of energy,” says Balaban in the report.

26. Clean energy entrepreneurs

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Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Willow harvesting at Ohaton Sewage Lagoon, Camrose County, Alberta

25. Waste to willows

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Sewage, biosolids, wastewater, effluent, human waste and night soil …

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24. Our favourite stories of 2012

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland said, …

Matthew Lumley shows a figure that illustrates how the coast line pinches in Minas Passage to produce a flood tide that races along more like a river than a tide. Photo David Dodge

23. Tidal Energy 101

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Nothing makes you appreciate the power of the ocean …

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22. The greenest little campus in Canada

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Church Point is a little known dot on the …

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21. The unlikely Walmart sustainability story

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney As you walk past two wind turbines, a rack …

Austen Hughes, a community wind developer with Natural Forces is developing several projects that qualify for Nova Scotia's community feed-in tariff. Photo by David Dodge

20. Nova Scotia’s community power

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Tour the rolling countryside of Nova Scotia in the …

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19. Sunny solar Alberta

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When you put the words ‘resource’ and ‘Alberta’ in …

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17. Light Up Alberta

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney To Warren Sarauer putting a solar electric system on …

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16. Pumpjack powerplants

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The slow sway of the oilfield pumpjack, or nodding …

Canadian Solar was one of many companies that have started in Ontario since the launch of the Green Energy Act. Ontario's local content rule was shot down by the WTO, but meanwhile dozens of clean energy companies emerged and are operating in Ontario. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

15. House of the rising sun: Canadian Solar is an Ontario-based solar manufacturer

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When it comes to solar panel manufacturing the laws …

Mike Brigham, the president of Solar Share, at its WaterView facility. Located on the roof of a bus manufacturing plant it has 438kw of thin-film solar.

13. Solar bonds: Ethical, local investing in solar energy

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney It might actually be easier to fit a camel …

Heidi Eijgel, rides her horse Luna, past the turbines of Summerview wind farm.

12. Heidi Eigel: One farmer’s wind story

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Heidi Eijgel (pronounced eye-gel) is an Alberta horse farmer …

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10. The renewable energy revolution in Ontario

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Alberta and Ontario are, from an outsider’s perspective, remarkably …

09. How Toronto’s waterfront wind turbine kick-started a green energy revolution

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Mathematician, meteorologist and chaos theory pioneer Edward Lorenz was …

Bear Mountain Wind Park defines the skyline around the city of Dawson Creek.

08. Awesome Dawson Creek: A northern oil and gas town bets big on renewable energy

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Dawson Creek is in the heart of oil and …

03. How Enmax is making simple, easy, low-cost, off-the-shelf solar a reality

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Karl Kovacs’ bungalow in the Argyll neighbourhood is like …

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02. NAIT’s new alternative energy program zeros in on solar, wind, geothermal and more

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Kolton Kasur sees plenty of green in his future. …

01. Author Chris Turner on taking the green energy leap

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Author Chris Turner calls it “the great leap sideways, …