Green Energy Futures's Ckua Radio Podcast

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we continue our look at Cornelius Koster's laneway house in Calgary. greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/solar-thermal-101

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we meet Tom Jackman, owner of Simple Solar. He explains a bit about solar thermal technology in general and his own patented design. greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/solar-thermal-101

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the town of Vulcan, Alberta, the Star Trek capital of Canada, who have recently completed a lovely solar park.   greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/vulcan-solar-park

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit Leduc, Alberta, a city which just installed the largest rooftop solar array in Canada. Check out our blog for more on this groundbreaking (or should I say, roof breaking?) project: www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/ledu…ooftop-solar

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we check out the Bull Creek wind farm, which has the distinction of powering over 500 Alberta schools through a power purchase agreement. Check out the blog at: greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/bull-c…powers-schools

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we tag along with some amazing students as they meet with Alberta's ministers of education and the environment.

Power to the people! This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we look at a nifty little startup out of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This co-operative is bringing solar investments to the little guy. See Green Energy Futures blog and photos: 

Summerside PEI replaced nearly all of its expensive diesel generated electricity with wind power by building a smart grid and storing energy in residents furnaces and hot water heaters. This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures hear how Summerside went from zero to 46% wind power in less than one decade! Summerside episode

Summerside PEI replaced nearly all of its expensive diesel generated electricity with wind power by building a smart grid and storing energy in residents furnaces and hot water heaters. This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures hear how Summerside went from zero to 46% wind power in less than one decade! See blog, video and photos: 

Bob Chelmick's Solar Cabin in the Woods is the near mythical home of "The Road Home" radio series on the CKUA Radio Network. It's solar powered, wood heated and it's from this cabin that Bob produces his ground breaking radio series. Also see Green Energy Futures blog, video and photos  

This week of CKUA's Green Energy Futures segment we talk to Lliam Hildebrand one of the founders of Iron and Earth, a boilermaker who joined other tradespeople in calling for renewable energy job training for out of work oil workers. "Our primary goals are number one, to build up the workforce capacity to build renewable energy projects in Canada and in Alberta. Secondly, we want to help build up the manufacturing sector required to build renewable energy. And third, we want to ensure that our contractors and unions can position themselves within this emerging sector." See blog and photos

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we examine how PEI replaced expensive diesel power with the highest proportion of wind power in North America. See blog and video: www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/pei-…s-wind-power

This week, on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the NorthWest tip of Prince Edward Island, home of the Wind Energy Institute of Canada. The institute is a self-funded leader when it comes to real-world application of wind technology.

When people think Calgary, renewable energy doesn't usually come to mind. But dig a little deeper and the oil capital of Canada may surprise you. With a carbon tax looming, the city is in a great position to make bank.

This week, on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit some Alberta students who want to call the shot when it comes to climate change education. For the second year in a row, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley comes to hear what these stupendous students have to say.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit a conference on energy efficiency in Alberta, which has a mind to change Alberta's current lack of program support for energy efficiency initiatives.

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit a carbon neutral laneway home unlike anything we've seen before. With innovative use of a solar air wall, air-source heat pumps, and water-based energy storage, this home re-envisions the concept of the garage suite into a carbon neutral home of the future. See blog, video and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/carbon-neutral-laneway-home

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, we return to a familiar place, the Kinney Family Earthship, near Lethbridge, Alberta to see how how a home heated by passive solar energy holds up in a cold, dark Canadian prairie winter. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/earthship-revisited

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the largest biogas production facility in Alberta.

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, we explore some of the most pernicious myths associated with wind energy.