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89. Wind and solar reduce the price of electricity in Alberta

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Have you heard the one about how renewables are …

This concentrated solar thermal plant will supply superheated fluid to the city’s natural gas fired power plant, enough to generate one megawatt of electricity. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

88. Canada’s first concentrated solar thermal plant

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney More than three years ago Ted Clugston was showing …

In spite of the volatility of solar stocks, Schnell predicts they will have a bull run that could last 15-20 years. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

87. Solar stocks rising

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Greg Schnell is my brother-in-law as well as a …

Dave Spencer and Debbie Wiltshire in front of their net-zero home. They wanted to develop a green community in Calgary and started the process more than 12 years ago. The concept turns traditional suburban neighbourhoods on its ear. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

86. Echohaven: An environmentally friendly, energy efficient suburb

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney To borrow a popular internet meme, what if I …

Wilbur McLean, a communications officer with the city of Medicine Hat, stands in front of a wall of smart meters. Medicine Hat has installed 26,000 smart meters.

85. How to make your smart meter even smarter

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Smart meters are unabashedly good. This might seem like …

Himark Biogas has trademarked the process of integrating cattle, biogas and ethanol operations and they have actually licensed it for use by other companies in the US. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

84. Integrated bio-refinery

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Alberta is known for its beef – or more …

The roof of the Eastgate office building in Edmonton, home to an Environment Canada office, has 640 solar panels.

83. Is Alberta Canada’s next big solar market? We make the case

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney On a bright fall day in early October in …

The Kinney family Earthship at dawn. The house is 2,300 square feet in size with three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

82. How we built our own Earthship, a radically sustainable, off-grid home on the prairie

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By Duncan Kinney and David Dodge When you tell people you’re building an Earthship there …

Landmark Solar Townhomes

81. Chasing Net Zero: Go big or go home

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney American poet, philosopher and naturalist Henry David Thoreau once …

Shafraaz and Serena Kaba’s near net-zero home was inspired by the German concept of the Passivhaus, a super energy efficient home that requires very little energy for heating or cooling. The home is air tight, very well insulated and it gets half its heating from passive solar energy streaming through the windows. Photo Darren Greenwood

80: Chasing Net Zero: Net-zero evolution

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney It’s a beautiful, livable, functional net-zero experiment – Welcome …

Spo'pi solar house

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 …

Photo Garth Crump Chasing net-zero Part 1: Net-zero 101

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 …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Groundswell Network Greenhouse, Invermere BC

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 …

Photo Duncan Kinney, Green Energy Futures GLOBE 2014 Vancouver

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 …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Executive Flight Centre Development Edmonton International Aiport

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 …