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79. Chasing Net Zero: Net-zero beautiful

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Building a net-zero home is an intricate dance between …

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78. Chasing Net Zero: Net-zero 101

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney A net-zero home is more than just a place …

77. Classroom energy challenge

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney “To the coffee machine” says Luke, a grade 5 …

Angelo Ligori, plant manager of Greenfield Specialty AlcoholsPhoto David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Greenfield Industrial Alcohols - industrial symbiosis

76. An integrated ethanol biorefinery wastes not

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Kalundborg is a small port city in Denmark with …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Pond Biofuels and St Marys Cement Plant St Marys, Ontario

75. Pond Biofuels: Growing algae from CO2

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Algae is a pretty important organism. The first plants …

The Zeus electric motorbike team at the University of Calgary.

74. Team Zeus

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney If you go to the University of Calgary you …

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73. Passive solar greenhouses: Producing more food with less energy

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney A passive solar greenhouse in Invermere B.C. is making …

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72. Three up and comers show their stuff at GLOBE 2014

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney GLOBE 2014 is the biggest business and sustainability conference …

Greg Devries, president of Truly Green greenhouses that plans to use the waste heat from an ethanol plant to heat 60 acre of greenhouse.

71. Industrial symbiosis: Growing tomatoes with an ethanol plants waste

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Kalundborg is a small port city in Denmark with …

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70. Solar hot water 101

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, a Swiss naturalist accidentally built a prototype …

Bryn Davidson, designer of the Lanefab laneway Energuide 90 home in Vancouver, BC.

69. Vancouver’s laneway homes – beautiful and net-zero

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Small is beautiful. When economist E.F. Schumacher first released …

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68. Community solar: Farmers love the sun

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney “God hates cowards,” that’s how Bob Sargent, a farmer …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Harvest Power, Richmond, BC, Canada

67. Harvest Power: Energy and compost from rotten food

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Picture one meal in your day and imagine it …

66. KidWind Challenge: Getting high school kids amped about wind power

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The main room of Edmonton’s city hall is full …

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65. Community solar: Meet a small town solar energy Macgyver

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney It’s one thing for SolarShare to get $3 million worth of …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Oxford’s Centennial Bldg Calgary Jan. 29 2014

64. Urban cogeneration

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Cogeneration is an idea as old as the electric power plant itself. In 1882 Thomas …

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63. The power of passive solar and thermal mass

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The Ancient Pueblo peoples got free heating and cooling at the Mesa …

In a home audit by CReturns in Edmonton, Alberta an infared camera reveals heat leakage around the windows. The complete blanket of insulation and high performance R8 windows cut down on heat loss dramatically in new super insulated net-zero homes. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

62. The massive potential of energy efficiency

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The front-loading washing machine has been around since 1947, yet …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Windy Coulee Canadian Horses Ranch, Pincher Creek Alberta

61. Learn about Alberta’s $380 million green technology fund

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When it comes to dealing with carbon emissions Alberta …

60. Phasing out coal in Alberta

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney “I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they …