Lliam Hildebrand is an boilermaker and oilsands worker that helped found Iron and Earth to call on training in renewable energy for out of work oil workers.

146. Iron and Earth: oilsands workers call for training in renewable energy

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson The call to action on the Iron and Earth …

A beautiful home in West Cape PEI with the West Cape Wind Farm in the background. Islanders get an average of 26 per cent of their electricity from wind power. Virtually all of the rest comes from an inter-tie undersea cable to the New Brunswick grid. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

145. Prince Edward Island rocks wind power

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Prince Edward Island is the smallest province in Canada. …

Scott Harper, the CEO of the Wind Energy Institute of Canada at North Cape on Prince Edward Island. The institute reinvented itself in 2005 adding it's own 10 megawatt wind farm to the research institute to fund their work and being real life experience to their research and work. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

144. The Wind Energy Institute loves wind so much, they bought the farm

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Long before you get to the North Cape of …

The Mosaic Centre in Edmonton, Alberta is a net-zero commercial building powered by a nearly 200 kilowatt solar system (some of which is flat mounted) and heated by a geoexchange system that runs on solar power.

135. Shining a light on solar energy myths

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson In Greek mythology, Icarus, while escaping Crete wearing homemade …

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

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

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

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

"Every one of these three-car trains that goes by has a capacity of 600 people. That means it's taking about 550 cars off the road. It makes a lot of sense," says Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

115. Calgary’s wind-powered LRT an incredibly successful system: Naheed Nenshi

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney  The CTrain in Calgary is one of the greatest …

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113. Beyond the Tesla Powerwall: How energy storage is shaping up in Ontario

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney There are not many entrepreneurs who can command a …

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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 …

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

68. Community solar: Farmers love the sun

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

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 …

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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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Canada as clean energy superpower – It’s an alluring …

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

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, …

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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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 …