Green Energy Futures tells inspiring stories of Canadians involved the green energy revolution. Our podcast is heard on the CKUA.com Radio Network. Check out our videos and blog at www.greenenergyfutures.ca 

Seasons 1 - 4 - On the front lines of the Green Energy Revolution

The idea of homes and buildings that produce as much energy as they consume was born less than a decade ago. Now it's taking off and threatening to go mainstream. Here are the most inspiring stories of people going net-zero from GreenEnergyFutures.ca

Chasing Net Zero – Inspiring buildings that produce as much energy as they consume

The green energy revolution is upon us and the pace of change is amazing. It will affect the way we get around, the buildings we live in and how we get our electricity. Green Energy Futures explores the people, projects, and technologies of the green energy revolution.

Season 5 - Green Energy Futures

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we visit the home of Lance and Wendy Olson, a net-zero home that just so happens to be made of straw. See video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/157-albertans-making-homes-straw

157(a). A net-zero home made of straw

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast, we look at the Pisa from Landmark homes, an Edmonton-based developer. It's the first net-zero home in Canada to sell for less than $400,000! See blog, photos and video: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/affordable_net-zero

168(a) This solar-powered net-zero home is actually affordable!

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Energy Futures we visit Landmark Home's new affordable net-zero home just as they put the "0" gigajoule EnerGuide label on the home. As net-zero becomes affordable will solar-powered net-zero homes become the norm? We think they might! See video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/affordable_net-zero

168(b) Will affordable net-zero homes become the new norm?

PACE financing has generated $3.4 billion worth of energy efficiency and renewable energy projects on buildings in the U.S. Brian Scott and Leigh Bond believe it could be the key to unleashing a wave of projects in Alberta. This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures we talk to Scott and Bond about financing clean energy in Alberta. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/pace-financing-produced-3-4-billion-energy-efficiency-projects-u-s

169. PACE financing key to stimulating energy efficiency and renewable energy projects

On this week's CKUA Radio Green Energy Futures episode: Brazeau County may be in the heart of oil and gas country near Drayton Valley, Alberta, but the county recently installed solar on most of their municipal buildings to support low carbon sources of alternative energy, save money over the long term and avoid future price increases and carbon levies. See story and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/170-brazeau-coun…olar-oil-country

170. Brazeau County: Solar in the heart of oil and gas country

Net-zero homes are the way of the future! On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures episode we speak to Sonja Winkelmann of the Canadian Home Builders Association about a new Net-Zero Home labelling program. The idea: help consumers and builders understand and embrace super energy efficient, net-zero homes.

171. Canadian home builders launch net-zero labelling

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures Peter Darlington is an exterior contractor who decided to super insulate his home, install an energy efficiency heat pump furnace and power his home with solar energy. He was so taken with the project he created a new company to help others renovate their existing homes to net-zero energy homes. See blog, video and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/178-renovating-your-existing-home-to-net-zero

178. Renovating your home to net-zero - it can be done!

CKUA's Green Energy Futures and the Energy Detective compares cookers to find the best and most energy efficient way to slow cook lentil soup! We compared slow cookers, pressure cookers and the Thermos slow cooker. See our story on The Energy Detective: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/181-the-energy-detective

185. Super Energy Efficient Cooking - Lentil Soup in a Thermos

The Westmount Presbyterian Church had a decrepit old building they could not longer afford to heat. So they entered into a very creative partnership with a housing society. They provided land to build desperately needed social housing and got a new net-zero church, the first of its kind in Canada. On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures it's a heart-warming story of how a solar powered church came to be. See story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/canadas-first-net-zero-church

186a Canada's first net-zero church

It's a heart warming story of sustainability that started with a church in crisis, a shortage of social housing and a school slated for closure.
Peter Amerongen is a father of building net-zero buildings––this week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures we learn how he took this impossible situation and built the first net-zero church and social housing project in Canada. See story and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/canadas-first-net-zero-church

186b Father of net-zero builds first net-zero church and social housing project

In a cliché moment in 2010 a greenhouse guy meets an ethanol guy outside of the Woodstock farm show and says "Wouldn't it be cool if we could heat a greenhouse with heat from the stack at the ethanol plant?" Such a cool project – In this CKUA Green Energy Futures podcast we discover there is enough waste heat in that stack to heat 1,000 homes or 45 acres of greenhouse. Learn more in our blog and see photos at www.greenenergyfutures.ca

187a. Greenhouse heated by heat from ethanol stack

On this week's CKUA Green Energy Futures feature: Industrial symbiosis. Corn comes into a biorefinery that produces ethanol, industrial alcohols, corn oil, and distillers' grains.  And then ALL wastes from this plant are used as well to heat a greenhouse, grow tomatoes and much, much more. It's a virtuous cycle of products and wastes, that each turn are used to produce other products. See blog, photos and video: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/waste-heat-growing-tomatoes-industrial-symbiosis

187b No waste! Biorefinery is amazing example of industrial symbiosis

The CKUA Radio podcast of the GreenEnergyFutures.ca series. The multi-media series is hosted by David Dodge and tells the inspiring stories of Canadians involved in the green energy revolution.