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 …

Electricity from tomatoes?

134. Biogas: Brown waste – green power!

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Brown gold. Prairie pies. Monkey missiles. Whatever you call …

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 …

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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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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 …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures On the trail of cooking oil, from cruise ships to bus cruise lines – the story of the Cowichan Biodiesel Coop in Duncan, British Columbia

36. Micro-brewed biodiesel powers bus tours in Victoria

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney With 17 micro-breweries the 750,000 people who call Vancouver …

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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 …

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, …

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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 …