74. Team Zeus
The University of Calgary is home to Team Zeus and they’re building an electric motorbike to race this summer.
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73. Passive solar greenhouses: Producing more food with less energy
A passive solar greenhouse in Invermere B.C. is making people across the continent sit up and takes notice. It may sound ironic, but most greenhouses are not designed to harvest and retain the sun’s energy.
72. Three up and comers show their stuff at GLOBE 2014
This week join us as head head to Globe 2014 into the Grizzly Den, where 36 different companies are pitching to investors, partners and customers. We feature three out of 30 that we thought you should know about.
71. Industrial symbiosis: Growing tomatoes with an ethanol plants waste
We head to Chatham, Ontario to explore a unique example of industrial symbiosis between an ethanol plant and a greenhouse.
70. Solar hot water 101
With cheap natural gas and cheap solar PV is solar hot water still worth it? We explore how this technology works and in what applications it makes the most sense.
69. Vancouver’s laneway homes – beautiful and net-zero
Come take a tour of a super energy efficient laneway home in Vancouver and talk to a builder of these tiny, fun homes.
68. Community solar: Farmers love the sun
We head to Starland County, Alberta where some very innovative farmers are working with Bullfrog Builds and the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre to build solar that pays for itself in 10-13 years.
67. Harvest Power: Energy and compost from rotten food
Learn how Harvest Power turns your rotten banana peels and other gross assorted food waste into energy and compost at their site in Richmond, BC.
66. KidWind Challenge: Getting high school kids amped about wind power
Check out 30 plus Edmonton area high school students as they build two-foot wind turbines and are judged on how much power the wind turbine produces in a wind tunnel, the design, documentation and wind energy knowledge.
65. Community solar: Meet a small town solar energy Macgyver
Community scale renewable solar is cheap and requires very little maintenance. Learn how two communities in Alberta built successful community solar energy programs.
64. Urban cogeneration
Cogeneration is a simple, effective idea – generate electricity from the waste heat from a boiler. We explore a 370 kilowatt unit powering and heating an office building in downtown Calgary.
63. The power of passive solar and thermal mass
Passive solar energy and its running buddy thermal mass give you the opportunity to get a significant portion of your home’s heat for free from the sun.
62. The massive potential of energy efficiency
Learn how the energy efficiency policy process works and how, if applied in Alberta, Canada’s biggest carbon emitter could save a ton of money and get halfway to its 2020 greenhouse gas emission targets.
61. Learn about Alberta’s $380 million green technology fund
Alberta has a carbon price and it’s collected $380 million worth of cash for carbon reduction technology projects. Learn how they’re spending that money.
60. Phasing out coal in Alberta
We talk to a doctor who knows the true health costs of coal in Alberta as well as Alberta’s new Associate Minister of Renewable Energy and Electricity on what she would replace coal with.
59. Electric bikes – An easy way to green your commute
The electric bike might be the single best urban transportation option out there. It’s super green, gets you outside, has really low emissions and can get you up that big hill without breaking a sweat.
58. The incandescent light bulb phase out is a good thing
The incandescent light bulb phase-out is akin to getting rid of leaded gas, CFCs or the Ford Pinto. It is unequivocally a good news story. Learn why this week at Green Energy Futures.
57. Energy storage: Power-to-gas and better batteries
Renewable energy produces energy when the sun shines and the wind blows, but these entrepreneurs are developing better batteries and new and innovative ways of capturing and storing renewable energy.
56. Best stories of 2013
Here are our favourite stories of 2013.
55. Green Energy Futures holiday gift guide
It’s that time of the year to sweat about what exactly you’re going to give to the people you care about in your life. Here at Green Energy Futures we’ve taken the time to come up with a short but awesome list of what to get for someone whether they’re a total green energy geek or they’re a total green energy neophyte.
