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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 …

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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 …

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162. 2016 year in review

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161. Social housing retrofits save real money

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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 …

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

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  By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson What’s that old saying, a penny saved is …

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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 …

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154. Solar Thermal 101 – getting to net-positive

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By David Dodge and Dylan Thompson “Not enough!” That’s what Cornelius Koster told Tom Jackson …

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153. Vulcan builds Canada’s first solar park

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson It seems fitting that Vulcan, Alberta is home to …

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152. Leduc has the largest rooftop solar system in Western Canada

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Mayor Greg Krischke could barely contain his enthusiasm as …

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151. Wind farm powers 500 Alberta schools

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson The rolling hills South of Wainwright are home to …

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150. Student white paper calls for climate change action in Alberta schools

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson You may remember the students from the Centre for …

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149. Saskatchewan solar co-operative brings power to the people

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson On the roof of the Two Twenty building in …

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148. Summerside smart grid uses 46 per cent wind power

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson In 2015, the city of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, …

You may know Bob Chelmick as the calm, steady, professional former news anchor from CBC and CTV. But this city boy who built a career under the glare of the city lights, and spotlit newsrooms found his own authenticity in the "calming quiet of the country" where he built his storied solar-powered Cabin in the Woods the inspiration behind the landmark radio series The Road Home. “I wanted to integrate the things I love in my life most. Living here in a cabin, living out of the city, living in nature, making radio, storytelling, and painting pictures through that storytelling.” “The best pictures I make are on radio,” says the accomplished photographer. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

147. Bob Chelmick’s Solar-powered Cabin in the Woods

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson On a crisp spring morning, a pair of Canada …