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Green Energy Futures

The Time Has Come for the Electric Bike
The electric bike might be the single best urban transportation option out there. It's super green, gets you outside, has really low emissions and can get you up that big hill without breaking a sweat.
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Alberta's CCEMC

Sun, Feb 02, 2014
Five years ago Alberta introduced a small carbon levy on large carbon emitters. That idea has raised $380 million dollars so far, learn how it works and the GHG reducing projects they're investing in this week at Green Energy Futures.
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Passive Solar Design
Whether you're buying a house or designing your own we've some simple rules of thumb when it comes to orientation, windows and building materials that will make your home a more comfortable, energy efficient place to live.
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Community Solar

Sun, Feb 23, 2014
We head to small town Alberta to learn how the town of Black Diamond and Starland County are leading the way when it comes to community solar projects.
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Passive Solar Greenhouses
A passive solar greenhouse in Invermere B.C. is making people across the continent sit up and takes notice. It may sound ironic, but most greenhouses are not designed to harvest and retain the sun's energy.
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Pond Biofuels

Sun, May 04, 2014
Pond Biofuels is an early stage Canadian company trying to turn raw smokestack gas from a cement plant into a potentially useful product - algae.
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Classroom Energy Challenge
This week we follow students at Prairie Waters school in Chestermere, Alberta to seek out and destroy energy vampires, increase energy literacy and save energy in the Classroom Energy Diet Challenge.
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Chasing Net-Zero: Net-zero 101
The first episode of our four-part series Chasing Net-Zero. We dive into the history of net-zero homes and figure out you can build one of these comfortable, beautiful homes that also doubles as a mini-powerplant.
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Chasing Net-Zero: Net-zero Evolution
The secret to building an affordable, net-zero home that produces as much energy as it consumes is harvesting passive solar energy. Take a tour of Architect, Shafraz Kaba's net-zero home and learn how easy it can be.
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Chasing Net-Zero: Go Big or Go Home
Landmark Homes is planning to have all of their homes be net-zero by 2015. Learn how net-zero is transitioning from small custom home builders to large scale companies.
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Earthship on the Prairie
The family of the editor and production manager of Green Energy Futures, Duncan Kinney, built an Earthship. We show how these radically sustainable homes are built and how they work.
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Integrated Bio-Refinery
On their own a feedlot, an anaerobic digester and an ethanol plant might not make sense but combine them and you've got an integrated bio-refinery where each business feeds the other in a virtuous cycle.
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Canada's First Concentrated Solar Thermal Plant
Welcome to Canada's first concentrated solar thermal energy plant in sunny Medicine Hat, Alberta. Discover how "The Gas City" is adding solar and wind to diversify it's electricity supply in a city endowed with rich fossil fuel resources.
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Solar Air Heating
We spend a lot of money and burn a lot of carbon keeping our homes and buildings warm. Solar air heating is a simple, effective and accessible technology that could help Canada reduce its heating bills.
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