Green Energy Futures's Ckua Radio Podcast

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, Peter Amerongen of Habitat Studio shows us his methodology for insulating a home to reach net-zero.

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we look at Carl Lauren of Kimberley B.C. and the rebate program he helped create that is making his city greener.   http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/kimberley-green-building-rebate

2015 represents the dawning of the age of the net-zero home. Green Energy Futures looks back on our favourite green energy stories of the year. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/solar-pv-training-job

In this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures feature, we look at some of the news that defined the green energy revolution in 2015. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/favourite-stories-2015-part-1

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we head to Vitoria-Gasteiz in Spain to look at one of Europe's most walkable cities.  http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/vitoria-gasteiz-green-capital

This week, Green Energy Futures shares the story of Vitoria-Gastiez, Europe's green capital for 2012.

This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we look at the explosion of green energy jobs around the world and the emergence of green jobs in B.C. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/renewable-energy-jobs 

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we look at one community league in Edmonton, Alberta that has invested in solar energy as an investment in community. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/evansdale-community-solar

In this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast, we speak to Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign about their campaign to reduce and eliminate the use of coal-fired electricity. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/beyond-coal-phaseout-alberta

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures episode, we visit the largest solar farm in Western Canada at the Green Acres hutterite colony in Southern Alberta. The solar farm powers the recycling and farming operations of the colony. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/hutterite-solar-western-canada-biggest

A CKUA Green Energy Futures exclusive interview with Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson about oil city's strategy to transition from dirty to clean energy. For the full story and a full length feature interview see story:  http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/iveson-edmonton-energy-transition-strategy

This week on the CKUA Radio Green Energy Futures feature we go to solar school. Randal Benson of Gridworks Energy Group has helped train more than 700 electricians how to install solar systems. Hear their stories! See blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/solar-pv-training-job

On this week's CKUA Radio Green Energy Futures podcast: How Kimberley BC began mining the sun on the site of the once largest lead-zinc mine in Canada. Learn more: www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/sunm…-bc-solar-pv

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures - Mayor Gregor Robertson was elected two terms ago on a pledge to make Vancouver the "Greenest City in the World." We talk to the mayor about their latest pledge - to use 100% renewable energy in Vancouver by 2050.

On this week's CKUA Radio Green Energy Futures program - TREC Education grew out of the Toronto Renewable Energy Coop after they built the first urban wind turbine in North America in the heart of Toronto's Exhibition Place. This week on Green Energy Futures CKUA Radio feature we go to class with grade 5s at George Webster School in Toronto to learn how to capture the wind.

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures episode: The amazing story of the extracurricular Sustainable Development Committee at Cochrane High School in Alberta. Students have raised more than $149,000 and carried out half a dozen solar, wind and energy efficiency projects! Then came the "notorious wind project." That's when they became "A" students in politics, helping their town develop a renewable energy policy after facing angry neighbours.

Local leadership has proven to be the most effective at deploying effective sustainability solutions at all kinds. David heads to Toronto to learn how cities across the world going green. 

Tillsonburg. If hearing that name brings to mind the Stomping Tom Connors song about working in the tobacco fields you're not alone. But Tillsonburg has undergone a modern makeover, the biggest employer in town isn't agriculture but Siemens. Over 400 people manufacture wind turbine blades at their Tillsonburg plant. We learn how they make these engineering marvels and the effect it's had on the town of 16,000 people.

Calgary's LRT system is one of the most successful electrified transport systems in North America both from a ridership perspective and a green energy perspective. Learn more at http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/c-train-success-nenshi-calgary

When Elon Musk gave his presentation on the Powerwall he gave the energy storage business a billion dollars worth of free press. Ontario is leading the way in Canada in energy storage deployment, we head there to learn more.