Edmonton's Energy Transition Strategy seeks to reduce emissions by 35%, reduce individual energy use by 25% and get 10% of our electricity from local renewable energy sources by 2035. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

123. Mayor Don Iveson on Edmonton’s landmark Energy Transition Strategy

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By David Dodge & Dylan Thompson Climate change is often portrayed as this giant, fuzzy, …

Just one of the groups that has taken the 5-day solar training course at Grid Works Energy Group in Edmonton, Alberta. Owner Randall Benson has trained more than 700 electricians in solar in the last six years. Solar jobs now total 174,000 in the U.S. surpassing coal jobs. Many places in Canada are just beginning to install solar, but it has enormous potential to diversify the economy and provide clean, low emissions electricity. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

122. Solar training on the rise

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Solar sector employment in the U.S. is booming. It …

Kimberley Mayor Don McCormick at the mountain city's large sun tracking 1-megawatt solar farm a project designed to re-brand Kimberley as a modern, clean energy tourism town. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

121. SunMine: How solar is transforming Kimberley, an old mining town

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney You hike over the crest of the hill and …

Mayor Gregor Robertson of Vancouver says "In our greenest city plan we have a goal to double the number of green jobs in the city." More than 3,000 of the clean energy jobs found in the Clean Energy Jobs map are in Vancouver. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

120. Vancouver to go 100 per cent renewable

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney It may have left everyone not from Vancouver green …

Abasi Sanders shows off one of the creatively designed wind turbines created by students involved in the TREC Education Capture the Wind program in a Toronto school. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

119. Students capture the wind with TREC Environmental Education in Ontario

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Tomorrow’s renewable energy leaders don’t just spring from the …

Science teacher Stephanie Bennett with two alumni - all veterans of the Cochrane High School Sustainable Development Committee. Successive committees have built seven major projects at the school including solar, energy efficiency and gardens. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

118. Cochrane students install solar and get new town policy permitting renewable energy

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney There’s a quote from cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead that …

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Being something of a naturalist myself, some of my …