Monday, September 10, 201210. 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...
Tuesday, September 4, 20129. Toronto's urban wind turbine started a revolution
Visible to hundreds of thousands of commuters and park goers every day the wind turbine at exhibition place on Toronto’s waterfront was a harbringer o...
Tuesday, June 26, 20128b. Dawson Creek uses carbon fund to save energy
Dawson Creek, British Columbia has gone all-in on renewable energy. A local grassroots group helped set up the province's first large scale wind devel...
Monday, June 25, 20128a. Awesome Dawson Creek - How a wind park transformed a city
As the Sesame Street song goes, Cooperation Makes It Happen, and it was a cooperative - the Peace Energy Energy Cooperative - that made the 104 megawa...
Tuesday, June 19, 20127a. Green lighting 101 - LEDs vs compact fluorescents
The landscape of lighting is changing again! We may have just gotten used to CFLs but LEDs are now on the scene. Listen to our expert Wayne Rogers of ...
Monday, June 18, 20127b. The Philips LED – The $10 million light bulb
It's not every day you can walk down to your favourite retailer and purchase a $10 million dollar light bulb, but that's what you can do with the Phil...
Tuesday, June 12, 20126b. Heat your home with geothermal and free yourself from your natural gas bill
Geothermal 101 – Leigh Bond is the president of Threshold Energy and has installed dozens of geothermal systems across western Canada. He says that in...
Monday, June 11, 20126a. Geothermal Heating 101 - as if by magic
Geothermal heating isn't as complex as you would think. You drill some holes, sink some pipe and circulate water through the ground below the frost li...
Monday, June 4, 20125a. Dan Balaban - Wind Energy Cowboy
Greengate Energy isn't a typical wind developer. Instead of locating their wind farms in the windy Pincher Creek area their first project was located ...
Sunday, June 3, 20125b. The winds of change - A profile of Dan Balaban
Greengate Energy is Dan Balaban's third company that he's founded. Working exclusively in Alberta, he's behind some of Alberta's biggest wind projects...
Tuesday, May 29, 20124b. Net-zero home – solar power, passive solar heating
Les Wold, managing partner with Effect Homes, lays out how a home can be designed to produce as much energy as it consumes. One of the key design elem...
Monday, May 28, 20124a. Net-zero homes - Simplicity the key
Les Wold is part of the second wave of net-zero home builders who are bringing costs down on homes that produce as much energy as it consumes. Wold ha...