Green Energy Futures

Stories from the front-lines of the Clean Energy Revolution

Here in Halifax you can peek in and get a view of the super chilled mass of rock that provides the district cooling in the Aldnerney 5 project.

117. Sustainability snapshots: How Halifax, Tallinn, Hannover and Ottawa are learning from each other to make their cities more sustainable

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney If you’ve hung around some of the wackier, more …

Siemen’s Tillsonburg Wind Blade plant Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

116. Tillsonburg: From tobacco farming to building wind turbine blades

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The story of Tillsonburg is probably close to 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

David Dodge July 6, 2015Electric Vehicles, Wind 2 Comments

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

Reid's Heritage Homes is building five net-zero homes as part of NRCan's Eco-Energy program. Here's their first home nearly completed on the left. The only external signs are the solar on the roof and the air source heat pump heating system mounted on the side of the house. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

114. Net-zero contagious: Five mini net-zero communities spring up across Canada

David Dodge June 29, 2015Net Zero 1 Comment

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The race to build net-zero homes across Canada is …

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 …

Jason Rioux's shipping container cabin. The cabin was built out of seven containers in a hub-and-spoke pattern near Bobcaygeon, Ontario. Photo Courtesy of Jason Rioux

112. Welcome to the Octopod: An off-grid, solar powered shipping container cabin in Bobcaygeon, Ontario

David Dodge June 15, 2015Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Solar 1 Comment

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Whether you call it a cottage or a cabin, …

Solar flowers at Clarkson Wastewater Treatment Plant in the Region of Peel in Mississauga, Ontario. This flamboyant solar system is installed right next door to a former hybrid bus plant that also has a 427 kW solar system on it's roof. More than 23,000 renewable energy projects have been built in Ontario since the launch of the Green Energy Act in 2009. Photo David Dodge, Green EnergyFutures.ca

111. Ontario: Canada’s energy transition success – the untold story

David Dodge June 8, 2015Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind 3 Comments

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When you look at Ontario’s greenhouse gas reductions you …

Location Efficiency expert Kurt Borth says too many people "drive until you qualify" for a big house, without considering the very real and significant transportation costs you will experience just getting to work and play. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

110. Location efficiency: Discovering the hidden transportation costs of where you live

David Dodge May 25, 2015Buildings, Transportation 2 Comments

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When you buy a house the first thing your …

Geoff Wensel works hands-on in his pilot plant that makes shingles out of recycled milk jugs, plastic grocery bags and limestone waste. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

109. Cradle to Cradle: Recycling’s cooler younger brother

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney What if you could take waste limestone, add in …

Dominic Ries, Adrienne Lynn and Cam Munro of Clark Builders stand in front of a gate designed to keep soils and construction mud on site by using a cattle gate that shakes the mud off vehicles before they leave the LEED construction site and hit the streets of Edmonton, Alberta. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

108. LEED works: How a green building rating system transformed the construction industry

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Governments and developers love issuing press releases announcing the …

Jacob Komar of Revolve Engineering shows off the workings of the geothermal system in the net-zero Mosaic Centre commercial building. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

107: Geothermal: Hitting the geoexchange heating and cooling sweet spot

David Dodge May 4, 2015Buildings, Geothermal 1 Comment

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney There is something calm and comforting about …

AIM Energy Pros have created their own custom circuit by circuit energy monitoring unit that here is hooked up to Evergreen Ecological Services electrical panel searching or energy savings. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

106. The $750 billion dollar opportunity in industrial and commercial energy efficiency

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Put your hand on the radiator in our office’s …

Judith Sayers at the China Creek run-of-river powerhouse. Photo by David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

105. Judith Sayers, First Nations run-of-river hydro trailblazer

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney, Judith Sayers is a former chief, a negotiator and …

Keeping turbines off of ridge tops, upwind of side slopes, and away from pronounced valleys, help reduce raptor fatalities in wind farms. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

104. Birds, bats and wind turbines

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The grand opening of the Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community and Commerce in Edmonton. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

103. Welcome to the Mosaic Centre: Canada’s biggest net-zero building

David Dodge March 23, 2015Buildings, Solar 5 Comments

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The gap from net-zero house to large scale …

Austin Brown of the National Renewable Energy Lab keeps this hunk of coal on his desk as a reminder of what a kilowatt-hour of electricity actually is. Burning this softball sized piece of coal will give you roughly a kilowatt-hour worth of electricity. Photo courtesy of Austin Brown NREL.

102. Everything you wanted to know about a kilowatt-hour but were afraid to ask

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney We’re very lucky here at Green Energy Futures to …

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 …

Prior to launching the solar municipal feed-in-tariff program Banff invested in solar systems on public buildings such as the public washrooms in downtown Banff. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

100. Banff launches the first municipal solar feed-in tariff in Canada

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Banff National Park is famous for its beautiful mountain …

No two homes are the same in the Craik Eco-Village. There are tiny homes, homes made of straw bales, homes made out of insulated concrete forms – each home is its own unique recipe for building eco-home. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

99. Craik, Saskatchewan: The little Eco-Village that could

David Dodge February 23, 2015Buildings, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind 3 Comments

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney About ten years ago the town of Craik, Saskatchewan, …

Nissan LEAF makes it "easy to be green," offering the space and range to meet everyday needs, while also providing an exceptional value proposition due to zero spending on gas, lower operating and maintenance costs and a starting price after tax incentives competitive with a comparable gas-powered car.

98. Market snapshot: The state of electric vehicles in Canada

David Dodge February 16, 2015Electric Vehicles, Transportation 4 Comments

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is a pretty unlikely place to find …

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