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Tuesday, November 27, 2012 21. Walmart goes green with fuel cell fork lifts and energy efficiency to save money

Walmart might not be the most popular company among the green set, but they have taken some amazing steps in the past few years to use renewable energ...

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 20. Nova Scotia's community renewable energy program

When Nova Scotia instituted its feed-in tariff it had a community twist. After all this is the home of The Antigonish Movement, a turn of the century ...

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 19. Alberta's solar resource among the best in Canada – study

A new study confirms it. Alberta has the best solar potential in all of Canada. This news was announced at the Solar West Conference put on by the Can...

Tuesday, November 6, 2012 18. Home energy audit–The sexy world of caulking, insulation and oh yeah, power vampires

A home energy audit is one of the most powerful tools you have to reduce your own energy consumption. It helps you become smart about saving money and...

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 17. Light Up Alberta - Doubles rate for surplus solar energy

Light Up Alberta, is a program by small retailers that are paying $0.15 cents a kilowatt-hour for your excess solar electricity. Learn about LIght Up ...

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 16. Pumpjack power plants - making electricity in the oil business.

The Enersaver creates electricity from the downswing of a oilfield pumpjack. With electricity being the single largest expense for a mature oilfield, ...

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 15. Canadian Solar – we tour the plant in Ontario

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures we visit the Canadian Solar plant in Mississauga, Ontario, the province with the most solar in Canada. See vi...

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 14. The rise of the electric car with EV pioneer Phil Dayson

Phil Dayson is a man who loves his new Chevy Volt. "I've gone 6,698 km since the beginning of December and I've now used a tank and a half of gas and...

Tuesday, October 2, 2012 13. Solar Share's solar bonds – an innovative way to invest in solar

Want to support solar energy? Buy a solar bond. "SolarShare is a cooperative that basically intends to build commercial-grade solar projects throughou...

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12. Heidi Eijgel - living next to a 136 MW wind farm in Alberta

If you have been paying attention to the wind energy debate in Ontario you might think that wind turbines have never been built in Canada before. Heid...

Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11. The tale of two big wind farms in British Columbia

It's the cold winter winds that drive the wind turbines in British Columbia's Peace region and it's the song Winter Winds by Mumford and Sons that kic...

Monday, September 10, 2012 10. How Ontario ditched coal and involved thousands of citizens in renewable energy

We start off this week's CKUA podcast with everyone's favourite 1967 Expo-era Ontario promotional tune. This earworm of a ditty was commissioned by th...

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The CKUA Radio podcast of the GreenEnergyFutures.ca series. The multi-media series is hosted by David Dodge and tells the stories of Canadians involved in the green energy revolution. Visit our web channel at www.greenenergyfutures.ca

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