sewer heat heat pumps

404. Toronto Western Hospital to get 90% of its Heat from the Sewer and Heat Pumps

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Toronto Western Hospital is launching the largest sewer heating system in …

Oslo Climate Budget, a first

334. Oslo Climate Budget a First and Hey it’s Working

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca Talk is cheap and there has been a long line of …

Zibi Carbon-Neutral Community

316. A River Runs Through It – Zibi is Ottawa’s Amazing Carbon-Neutral Community

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By David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca It’s called Zibi, named after the Algonquin Anishinaabe word for “river” …

What is used to make biodiesel fuel?

253. Neste: How an oil company became the largest producer of renewable diesel fuels in the world

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Neste, the Finnish company formerly known as Neste Oil, …

Vitoria Gasteiz Recycling

229. Recycling Energy

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By David Dodge and Max Fawcett It wasn’t that long ago that recycling was seen …

Christian Meyer zu Venne with original waffle machine

216. Waffle cone factory shares its warmth

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans A German waffle cone factory has sparked an ingenious …

Greenfield stack with Truly Green Farms greenhouse in background

187. Truly Green Farms – Growing tomatoes with waste energy

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans  A greenhouse operator is standing outside a farm …

Sustainival

172. Sustainival, the world’s first green carnival

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By David Dodge Life may be a carnival, but at Sustainival you can’t “walk on …

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

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

Think of the filter material in your fish tank. Thanks to its very porous structure biochar provides an excellent medium for bacteria to live and do good work cleaning water, soils or someday perhaps even the stomachs of livestock. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures https://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/biochar

101. Biochar 101

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney In the movie Interstellar, Matthew McConaughey’s character has a …

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

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

Greg Devries, president of Truly Green greenhouses that plans to use the waste heat from an ethanol plant to heat 60 acre of greenhouse.

71. Industrial symbiosis: Growing tomatoes with an ethanol plants waste

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Kalundborg is a small port city in Denmark with …

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, …