Episodes

  • 379B. Green Infill - A 16-Unit Passive House Ready for Northern Climates

    379B. Green Infill - A 16-Unit Passive House Ready for Northern Climates
    Jun 4 2024
    Here's what Green Infill looks like! Built to the super energy efficient Passive House standard this 16-unit townhouse style infill project replaced two underutilized single-family homes in Edmonton, Alberta. The homes require just 10% of the heating energy of a regular home, and have no natural gas or bills. We take a tour of this amazing project with developers David and Melissa Campbell of Homestretch, a multifamily developer. The project utilized an unique EPS wall system with embedded structural steel, an ICF foundation and Air Source Heat Pumps which required no backup heat in 10 of the 16 units in a City where temperatures reached -40C last year. The Coup de Gras is the homes are powered mostly by solar electricity and 10 of the 16 units are net-zero. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast See blog at GreenEnergyFutures.ca
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    4 mins
  • 379A. Green Infill - Creating desperately needed housing and building community

    379A. Green Infill - Creating desperately needed housing and building community
    May 29 2024
    This project checks all the boxes. T5M Connect replaced two single-family homes with 16 new units of desperately needed housing and the kicker is it was built to the passive house standard in the mostly northerly city in North America. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast
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    4 mins
  • 378B. Gregor Robertson now helping 13,000 cities take action on climate change

    378B. Gregor Robertson now helping 13,000 cities take action on climate change
    May 22 2024
    Part 2 - Gregor Robertson, Vancouver's longest-serving mayor set out to create the greenest city in the world. Now he's the Global Ambassador of the Global Covenant of Mayors helping 13,000 other cities take action on climate change. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast Full story GreenEnergyFutures.ca
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    4 mins
  • 378A. Vancouver's former Mayor Gregor Robertson on Creating the Greenest City in the World

    378A. Vancouver's former Mayor Gregor Robertson on Creating the Greenest City in the World
    May 13 2024
    When Gregor Robertson came up with his campaign slogan of creating the greenest city in the world who knew it would be his most popular focus? He went to become Vancouver's longest-serving Mayor, and although they may not have reached the coveted top spot, they got pretty close. They created a very green building code, increased non-car transportation and attracted a lot of green business to the city while they were at it. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast Part 1 - In part 2 we talk to Robertson about what he's doing now leading the Global Covenant of Mayors helping 13,000 other cities green up their cities.
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    4 mins
  • 377B. Summerside from Zero Energy to 62% Renewable Energy

    377B. Summerside from Zero Energy to 62% Renewable Energy
    May 6 2024
    PART 2 - Summerside PEI had no electricity generation capacity a decade ago and then did some amazing things. First (in part 1) they added wind power, a smart grid and energy storing furnaces. Then they added AI-powered solar microgrids and a solar and battery farm right in the City. The little City with no generation capacity has achieved 62% locally generated renewable energy and become the leading City in Canada for integrating renewable energy. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast
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    4 mins
  • 377A. Summerside little city with no energy now a leader in renewable energy

    377A. Summerside little city with no energy now a leader in renewable energy
    May 2 2024
    PART 1 - Summerside like the province of PEI had no energy production except expensive backup diesel generators just a decade or so ago. Something had to change. So in an amazing transformation, they set up their own utility, built a wind farm in the city, installed a smart grid and thermal energy storing appliances and got to 42-46% renewable energy, all produced locally. And they didn't stop there, learn more in part 2. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast
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    4 mins
  • 376. EVs are driving down the price of electricity for all consumers

    376. EVs are driving down the price of electricity for all consumers
    Apr 24 2024
    This sounds counterintuitive, but a new study has found Electric Vehicles (EVs) are driving the price of electricity down and increasing net profits for utilities. Thanks to time-of-use pricing EV owners are shifting their charging habits to non-peak times thus making much more efficient use of existing grid resources. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Video Podcast
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    4 mins
  • 375. The Energy Mix - 30,000 stories on climate change - interview wth Mitchell Beer

    375. The Energy Mix - 30,000 stories on climate change - interview wth Mitchell Beer
    Apr 16 2024
    Mitchell Beer started The Energy Mix, a media service dedicated to covering climate change 10 years ago long before the conventional media took it seriously. We talk to Beer about climate change, journalism, and his media service which has published 30,000 stories on climate change and climate solutons. GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com Podcast
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    4 mins