Eagles fly on solar power

175. NFL Eagles fly on 100% renewable energy

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By David Dodge, Green Energy Futures When the 70,000 fans of the Philadelphia Eagles fill …

Super energy efficient lighting crew

174. Edmonton Folk Music Festival rocks energy efficiency

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Joni Mitchell, David Byrne, k.d. lang, Joan Armatrading, Passenger, Michael Franti, Blue Rodeo, John Hiatt, …

Gordon Howell, solar pioneer

173. Gordon Howell, solar pioneer installed first grid-connected solar system in Western Canada

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By David Dodge Gordon Howell is a solar pioneer. He installed the first grid-connected solar …

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 …

Brazeau County Solar

170. Brazeau County – Solar in oil country

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By David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Bart Guyon is a rancher and businessman. Decked out …

Funding the green in buildings

169. PACE financing created $3.4 billion in energy efficiency projects in U.S.

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By David Dodge Currently, the biggest barrier to people and organizations investing in energy-efficiency upgrades …

Affordable net-zero

168. Dawning of the age of affordable net-zero homes

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson  Welcome to the future, a time when your home …

2017 Chevy Bolt EV

167. Chevy Bolt: the first low-priced, long-range electric vehicle

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By David Dodge Two important things happened in the electric vehicle (EV) world in recent …

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166. Gener8ing environmental leaders

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By David Dodge Each year Inside Education hosts its flagship environmental education event at the …

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165. EnerGuide – The missing ingredient label for an energy efficient home

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Energy efficiency is the big missing link in determining …

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164. The EnergieSprong has sprung!

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson We are very quickly learning to construct buildings that …

Skeena passive house

163. Skeena – Canada’s largest passive house

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Vancouver, the self-styled “world’s greenest city” has built Canada’s …

Solar powered Cabin in the Woods

162. 2016 year in review

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161. Social housing retrofits save real money

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160. Green gift guide 2016

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson We at Green Energy Futures are all about conservation …

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159. When the levy breaks – carbon taxes

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158. Workers want a just energy transition

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Blue Green Canada is an unlikely alliance of labour …

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157. Straw-bale 101: A tale of two homes

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson When you hear the term “straw-bale home”, you could …

MG 7900

156. Nova Scotia has created the first energy efficiency utility in Canada

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155. We’re feeling Rand-y about clean tech investment

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When we first met Tom Rand three years ago, he was bullish about the clean …