Solar on a Jayman BUILT Home in Alberta2 scaled

243. Alberta builder includes solar with every new home

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans At the start of 2019, 40-year-old Jayman homes decided …

Merran Smith, Clean Energy Canada

242. Canada’s Clean Energy Transition Underway & A Good Thing – Canadians

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans “Often, good news doesn’t make the news,” Merran Smith, …

Vivian Manasc green architect

241. Vivian Manasc – A lifetime of Building it Green

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Last year, Vivian Manasc received a lifetime achievement award …

Carbon Busters net-zero homes in Blatchford

240. Carbon Busters – Building net-zero in Blatchford

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Carbon Busters may seem like a strange name for a builder, but the company has …

Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community

Green Energy Futures – Four stories that matter from 2019

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By David Dodge Happy New Year from Green Energy Futures!  This week’s episode of Green …

Greta Thunberg in Edmonton, Alberta

2019–The year of Greta Thunberg

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Time Magazine named Greta Thunberg “person of the year” and climate change is the news …

Reverend Annabelle Wallace and elder Les Young

237. God’s green home is net-zero

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A few years back, then-minister of Westmount Presbyterian Church Reverend Annabelle Wallace and her congregation …

Greenest School in Canada

236. Greenest School in Canada has a solar-geothermal greenhouse

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans “Words without actions are meaningless,” Lacombe Composite High School …

Travers solar

235. Travers: Largest Solar Project in Canada

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Picture New York, Easter morning 1900: 5th Avenue is …

Blatchford-Town-Centre

234. Blatchford: Largest Carbon Neutral Community in Canada

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  By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Edmontonians have already been recognized as pioneers of …

Jeff Linton, Alberta Beverage Container Management Board

233. Momentum building to have producers pay for recycling the waste they produce

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Thanks to the global waste crisis, microplastic pollution, and …

Tony Rossi of Loop

232. Loop – Reuse like the milkman

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Disposability was sold as a convenience in the post-war …

231. How a brutalist University of Calgary library was transformed to Net-Zero

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans The University of Calgary — yes, that University of …

Raffi - Young People Marching

230. Raffi – Young People Marching for Greta Thunberg

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By David Dodge and Kay Rollans Young people marching, striking for climate. Millions and millions …

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 …

Solar ariel LowRes

228. Solar for Diesel: The Sun Shines on Fort Chipewyan

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The small indigenous community of Fort Chipewyan in northern Alberta is off the main electricity …

Kevin Ma with his Chevy Bolt.

227. Life with an EV: Kevin Ma, an environment reporter’s long winding road to electric vehicle ownership

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By David Dodge It took more than a decade, but Kevin Ma finally got his …

Carol Bishop with her Nissan Leaf

226. Life with an EV: Carol Bishop – Fill it up for 3 bucks

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans Carol Bishop bought her Nissan Leaf “mostly for environmental” …

Ed Ma with his Tesla Model X

225. Life with an EV: Ed Ma – Electrifying performance

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Welcome to Part I in our Life With an Electric Vehicle series. We’ll meet early …

David Chernushenko Chevy Bolt

224. Activist David Chernushenko delivers a climate thriller in Burning Souls

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By David Dodge and Scott Rollans David Chernushenko doesn’t mince words. His new novel may …