235. Travers: Largest Solar Project in Canada
Alberta-based Greengate Power has already developed the largest wind farm in Canada – now they’re building the largest solar farm in Canada by a factor of four.
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234. Blatchford: Largest Carbon Neutral Community in Canada
Edmontonians have already been recognized as pioneers of net-zero homes, and now they are building the largest carbon-neutral community in the country: Blatchford.
233. Momentum building to have producers pay for recycling the waste they produce
Jeff Linton says by making producers responsible for recycling the waste they produce we can solve the waste crisis, create jobs and reduce environmental impacts.
232. Loop – Reuse like the milkman
Circular economy – Loop is taking us back to the future by ditching the packaging and selling products in reusable containers, just like the milkman did.
231. How a brutalist University of Calgary library was transformed to Net-Zero
How the University of Calgary transformed their ‘60s-era brutalist MacKimmie Library into a building designed to reach net-zero energy.
230. Raffi – Young People Marching for Greta Thunberg
Raffi’s song “Young People Marching” is a tribute to Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who has inspired millions of youth around the world to call for action on climate change.
229. Recycling Energy
People in the movies carry disposable cups like people in the ‘60s were portrayed smoking cigarettes as the norm. Has the recycling generation lost it? Some believe we need to recycle recycling to tackle huge waste issues and tackle climate change.
228. Solar for Diesel: The Sun Shines on Fort Chipewyan
Solar will replace 25 per cent of diesel generation in Fort Chipewyan a small community of 1,000 people in northern Alberta that until now has received all of its electricity from a diesel microgrid.
227. Life with an EV: Kevin Ma, an environment reporter’s long winding road to electric vehicle ownership
Kevin Ma is a long-standing environment reporter in the Edmonton Metro region. He realized there was an electric vehicle in his future almost a decade ago. This is the story of the long and winding road that led up to him driving an electric vehicle.
226. Life with an EV: Carol Bishop – Fill it up for 3 bucks
Carol Bishop of Edmonton bought a Nissan Leaf EV “for environmental reasons,” but loves it because it’s “fun to drive” and super cheap to operate. Fill it up for three bucks this week as we take a ride with Carol in her Leaf in Part II of our #LifeWithAnEV series.
225. Life with an EV: Ed Ma – Electrifying performance
Once Ed Ma started reading about Tesla ten years ago, he was hooked! In the first in our series Life with an EV we talk to Ed Ma and Rhonda Blair about their ten-year romance with electric vehicles. Ed likes that EVs are better for the environment, but he absolutely loves the electrifying performance of electric vehicles.
224. Activist David Chernushenko delivers a climate thriller in Burning Souls
Activist and former Ottawa City Councillor David Chernushenko’s new book Burning Souls is a climate thriller–fiction with a firm grasp on the real world and the vexing issue of climate change.
223. Solar Thermal Home still cool after all these years
Ed Ma and Rhonda Blair built their super energy efficient green home 12 years ago using solar thermal modules–it’s still pretty cool after all these years. So much has changed since then and his green home project continues to this day. We talk to the couple about what they’ve done, what they’ve learned and what they would do differently today.
222. Geothermal Revival – Getting to net-zero the easy way
Jacob Komar is shaking up the energy efficient building world by resorting to an age-old technology: geothermal energy. He says you can save lots of money and use much less insulation and get to net-zero for half the price if you use geothermal to heat and cool your home or building.
221. Tesla 3 is Canada’s Best Selling EV
Big news in EV circles. Matthew Klippenstein tells us the Tesla Model 3 is the best selling electric vehicle in Canada and sales of electric vehicles have eclipsed internal combustion vehicles in Norway.
220. Alberta farms fertile land for Rural Routes to Climate Solutions
His friends said he was crazy, but when Derek Leahy came to Alberta to start Rural Routes to Climate Solutions he found fertile ground for this ground-breaking project. He says engaging Alberta farmers in farm solutions that are climate solutions has been “a walk in the park.”
219. Osnabrück county produces 80% renewable energy
The county of Osnabrück in northern Germany produces 80 per cent its electricity from renewable sources, smashing national goals that call for 60 per cent by 2050. We look at one county’s response to the challenge of the national goals of Energiewende (energy transition) in Germany.
218. Effect Homes office goes off-grid in the big city
Effect Homes, a local leader in building net-zero, solar-powered homes has built Alberta’s first off-grid solar-cogen-powered and heated office.
217. Geothermal’s promise of endless heat for agriculture
Geothermal energy could be harvested from tens of thousands of spent oil wells in Alberta––enough to support a revolution in agriculture. So says Dr. Johnathan Banks of the UofA in this co-production between Green Energy Futures and Rural Routes to Climate Change.
216. Waffle cone factory shares its warmth
A German waffle cone factory is using its waste heat to heat the homes in its hometown—an ingenious initiative that could serve as a template for other heat-wasting small-town factories.
