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Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Solar”

Photo Garth Crump Chasing net-zero Part 1: Net-zero 101

78. Chasing Net Zero: Net-zero 101

David Dodge June 23, 2014Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Energy Labelling, Net Zero, Passive Solar, Renewable Energy, Solar 10 Comments

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney A net-zero home is more than just a place …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Groundswell Network Greenhouse, Invermere BC

73. Passive solar greenhouses: Producing more food with less energy

David Dodge April 10, 2014Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney A passive solar greenhouse in Invermere B.C. is making …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Executive Flight Centre Development Edmonton International Aiport

70. Solar hot water 101

David Dodge March 20, 2014Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

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

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Starland Country Community Solar Program, Alberta

68. Community solar: Farmers love the sun

David Dodge March 11, 2014Solar 1 Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney “God hates cowards,” that’s how Bob Sargent, a farmer …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Community Solar at Oilfield Arena, Black Diamond, Alberta www.greenenergyfutures.ca

65. Community solar: Meet a small town solar energy Macgyver

David Dodge February 24, 2014Solar, Energy Efficiency, Wind Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney It’s one thing for SolarShare to get $3 million worth of …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Passive Solar Heating Belgravia Net-zero Home in Edmonton, Alberta

63. The power of passive solar and thermal mass

David Dodge February 10, 2014Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Net Zero, Passive Solar, Solar Leave a Comment

By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The Ancient Pueblo peoples got free heating and cooling at the Mesa …

Energy Storage

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

David Dodge December 12, 2013Biofuels, Electric Vehicles, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Leave a Comment

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

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

David Dodge August 30, 2013Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

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

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

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

David Dodge July 18, 2013Renewable Energy, Solar 4 Comments

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

Bullfrog Power offices in Toronto

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

David Dodge June 28, 2013Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Leave a Comment

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

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Shot at EECOL Electric in Calgary, Alberta.

45. Big idea: The distributed generation revolution

David Dodge June 3, 2013Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind 1 Comment

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

T'Sou-ke Chief Gordon Planes

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

David Dodge April 11, 2013Solar, Energy Efficiency, First Nations, Renewable Energy Leave a Comment

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

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

David Dodge February 1, 2013Energy Efficiency, Geothermal, Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

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

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

24. Our favourite stories of 2012

David Dodge December 12, 2012Electric Vehicles, Geothermal, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Leave a Comment

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

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Nova Scotia

22. The greenest little campus in Canada

David Dodge November 27, 2012Biomass, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind 1 Comment

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

Photo Duncan Kinney, Green Energy Futures

19. Sunny solar Alberta

David Dodge November 7, 2012Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

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

Light Up Alberta

17. Light Up Alberta

David Dodge October 24, 2012Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

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

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

David Dodge October 5, 2012Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

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

David Dodge September 25, 2012Renewable Energy, Solar Leave a Comment

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

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

10. The renewable energy revolution in Ontario

David Dodge August 30, 2012Biofuels, Biogas, Energy Efficiency, Hydro, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind Leave a Comment

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

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