The idea of combining solar with farming is revolutionizing how we look at farmland and the economics of farming and ranching. We explore how solar + farming is increasing the productivity and the viability of farms. 

Agrivoltaics

Solar already produces emissions free electricity, but Skyfire Energy wants to also eliminate all of the embodied emissions associated with the manufacturing, and construction of their solar projects.
We talk to David Vonesch, president of Skyfire Energy. 
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323. Skyfire Shoots for the Moon with Zero Carbon Solar

Community Leagues are taking climate action to neighbourhoods all over Edmonton, Alberta.  About 50 of these local volunteer groups are taking action on climate change. This week on Green Energy Futures we talk to Laura Cunningham-Shelpeley of the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues about so-called Green Leagues. 
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325. Green Leagues Bringing Climate Action to the Hoods

Indigo Canada is adding 500 EV Chargers at its parking facilities in Canada. This is in addition to the 800 they have already installed. This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures we talk to Indigo CEO John Laires about how electric vehicles are transforming the parking industry.

326. Indigo Park Adding 500 EV Chargers in Canada

SolShare, a company out of Australia has created a solar sharing device that enables apartment dwellers to share a single solar system. The innovation has helped more than 1,000 apartments go solar down under. Now SolShare is moving into the U.S. and UK markets and may be interested in undertaking pilots in Canada.
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327. SolShare - At Last Solar for Apartment Dwellers

Solar Thermal 101 - This week on our CKUA Green Energy Futures show we head to historic Terminal 4 at the Edmonton International Airport to look at domestic solar hot water systems. Invented accidentally in the late 1700s we learn out how this technology has exploded around the world and what the best applications are today. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/70-solar-thermal-101

70. Solar hot water is dead, long live domestic solar hot water

First the three nations of Fort Chipewyan built a 2.3 megawatt solar project to offset diesel generation. Now they want to bring the first electric vehicle to their fly-in community.

335. Pilot could bring first electric vehicle to Fort Chipewyan in Canada's North

FULL INTERVIEW with Stephen Thomas about how a proposed clean energy standard could help get Canada's electricity grid to zero emissions by 2025 using renewable energy. Thomas co-authored a report entitled Shifting Power that plots a way forward using solar, wind power, energy storage and new interprovincial transmission lines that would allow provinces with big hydro to share renewable energy with provinces with solar and wind power. 
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337. How a Clean Electricity Standard can help Canada get to net-zero FULL INTERVIEW

On this 53rd anniversary, we talk to Denis Hayes the coordinator of the first Earth Day in 1970. Those early days helped define environmentalism as Earth Day served as a big tent for pollution, endangered species and a myriad of other issues. Sadly being green in 2023 is as hard as ever as we learn from Hayes who bemoans political populism and the incredibly challenging mother of all environmental issues - Climate Change. 
For this story Green Energy Futures collaborated with Mitchell Beer, publisher of The Energy Mix. Check out our blog for the full story and to hear Mitchell's hour long interview with Denis Hayes.
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341. Earth Day Founder Denis Hayes - Being Green is Harder than Ever

They were told it couldn't be done affordably. Then Salvation Army Architect Michael Jones and her team reissued an RFP for a net-zero-ready 175-unit supportive housing complex and were very surprised with what happened next—an inspiring story with lessons for all mid-sized buildings.
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345. Net-Zero Grace Village to save Salvation Army $6 million

In part II of our E-Bike Revolution series, we find out why e-bikes are revolutionizing the idea of the bicycle as a mode of transportation. Turns out e-bikers go further and faster than regular cyclists but is the e-bike a fitness cop-out? What we learned might surprise you!
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346B. How the E-Bike is Revolutionizing Active Transportation

Darren and Darcy Crichton started their DIY home retrofit on their 1969 bungalow 20 years ago. At first, they simply wanted to cut drafts by adding insulation. But with careful research, they did the right renovations in the right order and today they live in a solar-powered, net-zero home. This is their story.
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348. DIY home retrofit journey ends by getting to net-zero

In Part 2 of our Climate Ready Home series we talk to sustainability teacher Kenton Zerbin about some of the things we can do around our homes and yards to adapt to the increasingly severe impacts of climate change. We cover yard landscaping and some of the things you can do to reduce emissions and adapt your home to a changing climate.
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353. Climate Ready Home Part 2 - Adapting our homes and yards to climate change

Edmonton wants to plant 2 million trees as part of its climate change strategy - so how are they doing? We take a walk in Edmonton's extensive forest canopy to find out. Turns out they're on track and it could transform Edmonton. 
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358. Natural Solutions to Climate Change - Edmonton is Planting 2 million Trees

The Bow Valley Green Energy Cooperative in Canmore, Alberta has just wrapped up its fourth solar project in just a few years. This is blazing fast progress for green energy cooperatives in Canada that must navigate a network of challenging provincial electrical systems.
We talk to Jeff Roberts about the coops success getting started in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta.

362. Bow Valley Green Energy Coop Takes Flight

Many small towns and municipalities want to do energy efficiency projects or install solar and save money, but most have neither the money, expertise or the capacity to figure it all out. The Municipal Climate Change Action Centre in Alberta knows this so they created a program that has helped small towns and municipalities hire 26 energy managers that are doing just what they should.
This week we travel to Leduc, Alberta where we will meet up with Nathan Schaper the energy manager there who saved $40,000 in his first weeks of work. 
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367. Energy Managers Help small towns and cities save energy and money

Of the 466,000 oil and gas wells in Alberta on third are active and 170,000 are suspended or abandoned. What to do? Keith Hirsche was a farm kid from Taber, Alberta and his company RenuWell wrapped up two pilot projects to transform a couple of long-abandoned well sites into small solar farms which are now owned by St. Mary's Irrigation District. We visit the sites with Daryl Bennett from RenuWell and discover one of the most amazing examples of energy transition anywhere. 
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In part 2 we talk to Trevor Hellwig of St. Mary's Irrigation District the folks who own these two projects. Turns out solar and irrigation are a perfect match.

370. RenuWell - Transforming abandoned oil wells into solar farms - Part 1

Medicine Hat, Alberta  is about flip the switch on the first concentrated solar thermal plant in Canada. The one-megawatt, $9 million solar plant is a first this far north and it's connected to the city's natural gas combined cycle power plant. 
It's the culmination of the city's award-winning Hat Smart program that involved thousands of residents in energy efficient and renewable energy projects and resulted in this solar project and another 6-megawatt wind project, right inside the city. This week "The Gas City" goes solar.
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88. Canada's first concentrating solar thermal power plant

In part 2 of our series on Alberta's new renewable energy rules we learn that 57 projects worth $14 billion are potentially at risk. We talk to Jason Wang of the Pembina Institute which just prepared a map overlay showing the potential impact of new restrictions. We also talk to Vittoria Bellissimo of the Canadian Renewable Energy Association about changes that are coming to the structure of the electricity market in Alberta. Bottom line is uncertainty abounds for Alberta's formerly booming renewable energy industry. 
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373B. Alberta's new renewable energy rules - $14 billion in projects at risk?

Part 2 - Gregor Robertson, Vancouver's longest-serving mayor set out to create the greenest city in the world. Now he's the Global Ambassador of the Global Covenant of Mayors helping 13,000 other cities take action on climate change.
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378B. Gregor Robertson now helping 13,000 cities take action on climate change

This project checks all the boxes. T5M Connect replaced two single-family homes with 16 new units of desperately needed housing and the kicker is it was built to the passive house standard in the mostly northerly city in North America.
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379A. Green Infill - Creating desperately needed housing and building community

Here's what Green Infill looks like!
Built to the super energy efficient Passive House standard this 16-unit townhouse style infill project replaced two underutilized single-family homes in Edmonton, Alberta. 
The homes require just 10% of the heating energy of a regular home, and have no natural gas or bills.
We take a tour of this amazing project with developers David and Melissa Campbell of Homestretch, a multifamily developer. The project utilized an unique EPS wall system with embedded structural steel, an ICF foundation and Air Source Heat Pumps which required no backup heat in 10 of the 16 units in a City where temperatures reached -40C last year. The Coup de Gras is the homes are powered mostly by solar electricity and 10 of the 16 units are net-zero.
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379B. Green Infill - A 16-Unit Passive House Ready for Northern Climates

EAVOR has pioneered a new kind of geothermal that can provide heat and power almost anywhere on the planet. This could be the missing link in the energy revolution that could not only help electricity get to net-zero. It also helps solve the even bigger challenge of how to heat buildings with zero emissions.
We talk to Jeanine Vany of EAVOR, a company from Calgary, Alberta that has pioneered the new technology.
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380A. Geothermal breakthrough - heat and power anywhere

Alberta phased out its coal-fired electricity in record time representing the largest single action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. The trouble is a lot of the coal was replaced by natural gas which produces 60% of the emissions of coal. Can the fossil fuel-infatuated province also capitalize on its amazing renewable energy resources to build the net-zero grid of the future? We talk to Scott MacDougall of the Pembina Institute to look at the challenges.
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381B. The End of Coal-fired Generation in Alberta - Now What?

Solar plus farming, called Agrivoltaics is helping farmers generate new sources of income, keep the family farm viable and keep farming in the solar farm. We meet up with farmer, former oil and gas guy and current renewable energy developer Claude Mindorf at the Joffre Solar Farm in Alberta to talk about agrivoltaics. 

It turns out Canada could produce all of its electricity from renewable energy that would occupy less than 1% of farmland and enhance the viability of farming itself at the same time. 
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382A. Agrivoltaics, Keeping the farm in the solar farm

Farmer Shawn Morton just said "no" the first time he was approached by solar developers. But Morton found an ally in Claude Mindorff a farmer who was working for the solar company. So he cut a deal to lease 300 acres to a solar project and to keep grazing and farming that land in the lease. It's called Agrivoltaics, or the integration of solar with farming or grazing and Shawn says it just might be the thing that can help keep his 100-year family farm in the family. 
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382B. Agrivoltaics - Saving the family farm by integrating solar and farming

Virtual power plants are simply networks of small energy producers (solar, wind, backup generators etc.) and energy storage devices that can provide power to the grid when needed.
It's the digitization of the grid. It's very efficient, costing 40% less than speaker power plants and it's absolutely essential to start managing the millions of distributed energy systems (solar, batteries, EVs) coming on to the grid each year.
We talk to Dwayne Caldwell CEO of ENSPI a company that helps companies understand, manage and save energy and then network their resources into a Virtual Power Plant to make money and help the grid.
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383. Virtual Power Plants - Make money, save the grid

The town of Craik, Saskatchewan hatched a plot to increase the population of the slowly dying prairie town. An eco-village on the edge of town where people would build environmentally friendly homes on unserviced lots sold for a dollar. See if it worked and get a tour of this amazing community at http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/craik-eco-village

99. Craik Sakaskatchewan's Eco-Village a beacon of green on the prairies

The long-held dream of using geothermal energy to satisfy our needs and save the earth is ready for a big breakthrough.
Today we take a deep dive into Green Energy Futures complete guide to geothermal with hosts Sarah and Michael, our AI hosts from Notebook LM.
Geothermal and its cousin Air Source Heat Pumps are ready to provide heat and power to our homes at every scale from single family homes to entire Cities.
This is our complete guide to geothermal, geoexchange and because it makes so much sense, air source heat pumps.
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384. Geothermal Rising Deep Dive Podcast

It's a ticking time bomb - how do we integrate millions of solar, wind and battery projects along with 250 million EVs by 2030 into our outdated 20th Century Grid? Old school utilities often think of building more power plants, distribution, and transmission, but that would cost too much and could never happen fast enough.
At least part of the answer lies in software, AI and smart grid technologies. This week on Green Energy Futures we talk to Sabine Erlinghagen, the CEO of Siemens Grid Software about how to build the smart, affordable, resilient and reliable grid of the future.
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387. Integrating millions of EVs, solar and wind farms and batteries into our outdated grid

The wheels on this electric bus have been going around and around since 2017. We talk to Jeremy Kureluk of Rental Bus Lines based in Stony Plain, Alberta about owning and operating an electric school bus in the cold Canadian north.
Turns out they love their electric buses and want more. We dive into all the questions you might have including range, winter performance, maintenance, and more.
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389. Electric School Bus in the Cold Canadian North

Get totally TRUCKED UP!

Simon Lindley, fed up with the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) surrounding electric vehicle (EV) trucks, decided to take matters into his own hands. He launched the Trucked Up EVs YouTube channel, where he’s on a mission to test the limits of these electric beasts, evaluate the charging infrastructure across Canada, and debunk some myths.

I caught up with Simon at the very beginning of the Alaska Highway in Dawson Creek, British Columbia. He was plugged into a BC Hydro DC Fast Charging station, charging his Ford F-150 Lightning at lightning speed.

To truly understand the pros, cons, and challenges of touring with an EV truck, Simon embarked on an epic 24,000-kilometer cross-country adventure. He’s testing the limits of his EV, exploring the charging landscape across every province, and engaging with his viewers in local coffee shops to discuss the future of electric vehicles.

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391. FULL INTERVIEW with Trucked UP EVs YouTuber Simon Lindley

Janna Greir and her partner Ryan always loved the idea of ranching, living in the country, and operating a small farm, but becoming a first-generation farmer is nearly impossible these days.
That is until she discovered the combination of sheep and solar. The family had a dozen sheep until she landed a contract with Capital Power to manage the vegetation on their Strathmore Solar Farm. Janna has become an expert in vegetation management since then and the land is now much more productive and her flock has grown to more than 1,000 sheep on this one site alone.
Not only has Janna grown her flock significantly, she is also doing consulting work to help others do the same. Her experience points to a bright future for farming and solar.

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394A. Solar and Sheep - First generation farmer builds thriving operation by combining the two

In part 2 of our Solar & Sheep series first generation farmer Janna Greir adds Kunekune pigs to her solar & sheep farm. It turns out these cute little oinkers are symbiotic with the sheep. They eat parasites and worms left behind by the sheep thus interrupting their lifecycle keeping the sheep healthier. 
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394B. Janna Greir adds Kunekune pigs to her thriving Solar & Sheep operation

When Blatchford was announced as the largest planned carbon neutral community in North America it was seen as "wildly ambitious."
"It's right in the heart of the city, connected to transit, and boasts short travel distances. There's a grocery store already, there's an LRT stop, it's all the things that new neighbourhoods often wait years and years for, uh, but they're already here in Blatchford," says Anne Stevenson City Councillor for Edmonton, Alberta. 
Today Blatchford people-centred urban design is attracting residents and near net-zero building standards are just what's needed to build the affordable, resilient and sustainable neighbourhoods of the future.
In short this is where things are going and "We've got a great head start in Blatchford," says Stevenson.
We talk to the city councillor, the developer and some residents who are now living in this super sustainable neighbourhood located right in the heart of the City.
This is part 1 in a series we are doing talking to builders, home owners, heat pump companies about this amazing project in North America's most northerly big city.

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397. Blatchford The Largest Planned Carbon Neutral Community in North America

“What we love about Blatchford is that all of the homes here are heated with renewable energy,” says Heather MacKenzie," of their home in the largest carbon neutral community in North America.
In Part 2 of our series on Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community we meet Heather and Justin, two of the early residents of this visionary community. 
Blatchford has a green building code, geo-exchange (geothermal) district heating and its located right in the heart of the city. 
Heather and Justin love the renewable energy heating, the downtown location of their home and the amazing amenities you would not expect in a downtown neighbourhood: a lake with wildlife, walking paths, green spaces, a pedestrian only street in front of their home, a playground, community garden and they really love that there is a light rail transit station right on site.
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398. Solar and Community Energizes Urban Living for Heather and Justin

Josh Culling was looking for a green home powered and heated by green energy in the heart of the city with plenty of green spaces. Sounds impossible? He found his new home in Blatchford, the largest planned carbon neutral community in North America. 
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399. Green Spaces, Green Energy & Green Homes landed Josh in Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community

Landmark Homes pioneered the most affordable net-zero homes in Canada and now the company has found the perfect home for their homes in Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community in Edmonton, Alberta. Their unique combination of solar and air-source heat pumps mean homeowners can wind up paying little or nothing for their utilities, a boon in an energy uncertain future. We talk to the company founder Reza Nasseri, Micah Dueck of Landmark and Kassandra Starkell and Martin Martinyiak a young couple who made their first home purchase a net-zero home. Oh, these net-zero homes also come with a battery storage system that's part of a pilot program to create a virtual power plant out of a network of similar homes.
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400. Landmark net-zero finds home in Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community

Kassandra and Martin were looking for a new home in the core of the City and they hoped to include some green features in their home. But then they discovered Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community and as Martin said "Boom Done." They found Landmark Homes in Blatchford and their home is solar powered, heated by a super energy efficient air-source heat pump and it's super energy efficient. The big BONUS! This net-zero home has only one utility bill (electricity) and there's a good chance the cost will net out to zero cost over the course of the year. And they're protected from heat domes thanks to their heat pump, future energy costs and more.
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401. Solar Included, Net-Zero, Boom Done! For Kassandra and Martin in Blatchford

Heat pumps are taking the world by storm and Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community has both ground-source and air-source heat pumps, heating and cooling the homes of this super-sustainable neighbourhood.
Blatchford has a green building code and an amazing geoexchange district energy sharing system.

It all starts with 570 bore holes beneath a lake that feed into Energy Centre One where a massive heat pump further upgrades the temperature of the fluids before sending it off the the homes of Blatchford where heat pumps effortlessly heat or cool the homes.

Residents were skeptical at first, but nearly every person we talked to loves their heat pump and especially the fact that these units provide up to 700% energy-efficient air conditioning, which is a big help during those increasing summer heat domes.

One builder in Blatchford is using air-source heat pumps along with solar, which produces a near-zero utility bill.

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402. The Magic of Heat Pumps in Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community

Ed Whittingham calls himself "a climate citizen at large." He's also the host of the Energy vs Climate podcast, the former executive director of the Pembina Institute and the host of a new podcast called "Scrubbing the Sky."
He says we will have to do more than transition our energy systems to zero-carbon sources to combat climate change.

To stave off the worst impacts of climate change he says we will need to remove carbon from the atmosphere by scrubbing the sky.

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403. Scrubbing the Sky to Cool the Planet - Interview wit Podcater Ed Whittingham

Our full interview with Ed Whittingham on his new podcast "Scrubbing the Sky" involves going beyond energy transition to zero-emissions energy and also capturing carbon from the atmosphere and locking it up.In this episode, we take a deep dive into why some believe we need to go beyond energy transition and directly capture carbon from the atmosphere to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. Whittingham reveals where the idea for the podcast came from, what can be done to remove carbon from the atmosphere, and who is doing it.Surprise, surprise! One of the key figures in direct air capture of carbon dioxide is Dr. David Keith, a physicist and a co-host of the "Energy vs Climate" podcast along with Ed Whittingham and Dr. Sarah Hastings-Simon.
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02:22 - Who is Ed Whittingham?

03:03 - Origin of the Idea for Scrubbing the Sky Podcast

04:27 - Understanding ‘Scrubbing the Sky’

05:58 - Have temperatures already surpassed the 1.5 degreelimit?

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14:52 - Dr. David Keith’s Engagement with Carbon Removal

20:19 - Two more Companies involved in Carbon Removal

22:36 - Geoengineering vs. Carbon Removal

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39:09 - Extro

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403. Scrubbing the Sky Full Interview w Ed Whittingham

Toronto Western Hospital is launching the largest wastewater heating system in the world.
Yup, the hospital will get 90% of its heating from heat exchangers that suck heat out of Toronto's sewer system and then upgrades the temperature with heat pumps to heat the hospital complex. It's just like geoexchange systems (geothermal) except the heat comes from the sewer instead of the Earth.

If this sounds crappy, consider the hospital will save $700,000 per year on utility costs.

We talk to Ed Rubenstein formerly of the University Health Network and now the VP of Business Development with Noventa Energy, the company that built the $43 million project.

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404. Toronto Western Hospital to get 90% of its Heat from the Sewer

Interest in solar has exploded in recent years, but how do you figure out if you are getting a quality system at a fair price from a reputable installer?
Jordan Kruhlak and Beth Andrew both worked in the industry and know this so they started Glean Solar Brokers.

Glean helps their clients understand solar, they secure three quotes from reputable installers and then they help people evaluate the quotes.

And the best part is this is a free service.

The way it works is that approved suppliers don't spend as much money acquiring clients and instead pay Glean to do this and Glean acts in the interest of the solar consumers.

Glean even has a code of conduct for their solar companies.

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405. How to Avoid Solar Scams and Get the Best Solar Deal

On this weeks CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we talk to Matthew Klippenstein of Green Car Reports about the debut of the Chevy Bolt, the first low-priced, long range EV in Canada, the evolution of the EV market and how this Vancouver engineer came to be a green car guru in Canada.

167. Chevy Bolt: the first low-priced, long-range electric vehicle

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures we talk to Raffi about his song “Young People Marching” a tribute to Greta Thunberg, the 17-year-old Swedish climate activist who has inspired millions of youth around the world to call for action on climate change. See blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/raffi-young-people-marching-for-greta-thunberg

230. Raffi's "Young People Marching" – for Greta Thunberg

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