The Nest programmable thermostat can, on first blush, look a bit like the HAL9000 from Spacy Odyssey 2001. But this is a kinder, gentler computer – on...

There are 64 landfill gas recovery projects in Canada diverting more than seven million megatonnes of C02 equivalent a year and making money for their...

The new hot water style district heating system at UBC runs partly on biomass generated heat. It can integrate renewable energy systems like geoexchan...

Farmers in Ontario are diversifying into farming for biogas. It uses cow manure and grease from the restauraunt industry to create methane which is th...

Unbeknownst to the thousands of skiers who visit Whistler-Blackcomb every year is exactly what powers its 38 lifts, 17 restauraunts, snowmaking equipm...

Alive is not a word you use to describe buildings very often but this four-story 60,000 square foot CIRS building on the UBC campus in Vancouver is pr...

The False Creek Energy Centre currently heats 250,000 square metres of space with heat from the sewer system! It saves 70 per cent on greenhouse gas e...

When you talk about the tipping point in Vancouver's efforts to get people cycling it was a decision to close a lane of the Burrard Street bridge to c...

Canada's leading cleantech entrepreneurs, academics and executives say what's needed for Canada to become a clean energy superpower is a level the pla...

This Camrose County willow biomass project is a real example of a win-win-win project. They took a potential problem - lagoons used to treat human was...

In our last Green Energy Futures CKUA podcast of 2012 we take a tour through our favourite stories, interviews and sounds. We go to Nova Scotia, Ontar...

On an average day about 160 billion tonnes of seawater flows into the Bay of Fundy. That’s more than four times the combined flow of all of the freshw...