Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures On the trail of cooking oil, from cruise ships to bus cruise lines – the story of the Cowichan Biodiesel Coop in Duncan, British Columbia

36. Micro-brewed biodiesel powers bus tours in Victoria

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35. Reimagine your office building – Servus did it!

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney What are the two most common complaints from office …

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34. The Nest: The iPod of programmable thermostats

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33. Landfill gas: How old garbage can generate electricity

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Apple cores, pumpkins, Christmas trees and the crusts your …

Receiving one of two daily biomass shipments at the Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility at UBC. Photo David Dodge

32. UBC district heating: Low carbon Lego

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Cows in the cow barn eat when they are hungry and big rakes automatically collect manure from the floors to feed the biogas operation on on the Callaghan family farm in Lindsay, Ontario. Ontario has built about 30 similar projects that produce electricity, clean up environmental problems and creates economic diversification on the farm. Photo David Dodge, GreenEnergyFutures.ca

31. Biogas: Closing the loop on cow poop

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney French fry oil, molasses, donuts and cow manure. No, …

Don Gamache, operator of the Fitzsimmons Creek run-of-river project, gestures at the weir where water is diverted into a penstock pipe that travels 3.5 km down to the power plant. This headpond is sandwhiched between Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. Photo David Dodge

30. How it works: Run-of-river hydroelectric power

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When I first heard of “run-of-river” I had it …

The Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver is striving to be a LEED Platinum building and to meet the Living Building Challenge certification, a standard met by only three other buildings in the world. Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures

29. Canada’s greenest building

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney While some buildings feature stylish fountains out front, the …

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28. Sewer heat keep homes warm in Vancouver’s False Creek area

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we head into …

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27. Bike city – What the rest of Canada can learn from Vancouver

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney As anybody who has seen astronaut Chris Hadfield’s incredible …

Dan Balaban is the CEO of Greengate Power and as we’ve described him on the program before, a clean energy cowboy who’s building big wind projects in Alberta’s deregulated electricity market with hardly any local government help. “The federal government should be very clear that we favour clean sources of energy in this country to dirty sources of energy,” says Balaban in the report.

26. Clean energy entrepreneurs

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Canada as clean energy superpower – It’s an alluring …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Willow harvesting at Ohaton Sewage Lagoon, Camrose County, Alberta

25. Waste to willows

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Sewage, biosolids, wastewater, effluent, human waste and night soil …

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24. Our favourite stories of 2012

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When the White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland said, …

Matthew Lumley shows a figure that illustrates how the coast line pinches in Minas Passage to produce a flood tide that races along more like a river than a tide. Photo David Dodge

23. Tidal Energy 101

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Nothing makes you appreciate the power of the ocean …

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22. The greenest little campus in Canada

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Church Point is a little known dot on the …

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21. The unlikely Walmart sustainability story

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney As you walk past two wind turbines, a rack …

Austen Hughes, a community wind developer with Natural Forces is developing several projects that qualify for Nova Scotia's community feed-in tariff. Photo by David Dodge

20. Nova Scotia’s community power

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Tour the rolling countryside of Nova Scotia in the …

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19. Sunny solar Alberta

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney When you put the words ‘resource’ and ‘Alberta’ in …

Photo David Dodge, Green Energy Futures Home Audit by CReturns, Edmonton, Alberta

18. The power of a home energy audit

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney Think of Godo Stoyke as a modern day, energy …

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17. Light Up Alberta

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By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney To Warren Sarauer putting a solar electric system on …