Europe and especially Germany are loaded with biomass energy projects. They're converting their old coal fired power plants so that they'll take bioma...

The electricity industry is old and creaky. It depends on 40-50 year old powerplants to send power along 80 year old transmission lines. It's the same...

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures we visit the Future of Transportation Symposium at NAIT. There we met the people who are driving everything f...

We head to the Edmonton Auto Show to check out the new lineup of EVs, hybrids and even some super efficient gas vehicles. We talk to auto industry exe...

Collaborative consumption is an idea that's gained some popularity recently with the publishing of the book "What's Mine is Yours" and the rise of car...

Peter Amerongen is a bit of an expert when it comes to net-zero homes. What he has learned is that simplicity is the golden secret when it comes to bu...

Lawrence Grassi middle school in Canmore, Alberta is your typical, mid-size public school. It's home to 391 students. There is a wood shop and portabl...

The Nanaimo Regional District is your usual mid-size Canadian municipality. There are suburbs and strip malls and regular Canadians doing regular Cana...

When we visited the T'sou-ke first nation on Vancouver Island it was a grey day and the rain was coming down in steady sheets. at first blush not nece...

Reza Nasseri, the CEO of the Landmark Group of Builders, thinks the traditional house building process is a bit of a dog's breakfast. He likens it to ...

The Cowichan Bio-Diesel cooperative has grown from a small group of volunteers selling jugs of their product at a Farmer's Market to scaling up to 150...

Reimagine is a movement started by Edmonton architectural firm Manasc Isaac to inspire people who own aging office buildings not to knock them down, b...