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4b. Net-zero home – solar power, passive solar heating May 29, 2012

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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 elements is taking advantage of the free energy provided by the sun. By having a lot of south-facing glass and a thermally massive floor (in this case concrete) you can get 30 to 50 per cent of your home's heat for free. See Green Energy Futures vidoe, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/04/learn-how-second-wave-net-zero-home-builders-lowering-costs-and-making-it-more-accessible

4a. Net-zero homes - Simplicity the key May 28, 2012

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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 has learned some simple lessons from building one net-zero home and two net-zero ready homes right next to each other in the neighborhood of Belgravia in Edmonton. Join Green Energy Futures for a tour on this week's CKUA podcast. See video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/04/learn-how-second-wave-net-zero-home-builders-lowering-costs-and-making-it-more-accessible

3a. Enmax's Generate Choice - Solar electricity made easy for Albertans May 22, 2012

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Enmax, the utility owned by the city of Calgary, is going where few utilities have gone before. Their Generate Choice program is aiming to put 8,300 solar systems on Alberta roofs. Learn how they plan to do it and the red tape they've already cut through in order to make it happen. Also, learn how much you get credited for when you export any excess electricity to the grid. See Green Energy Futures video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/03/simple-easy-low-cost-shelf-solar-how-enmax-making-it-reality

3b. Karl Kovacs' solar dreams come true May 21, 2012

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Karl Kovacs has been obsessed with solar since he was young. Learn how Enmax's Generate Choice program helped him go solar. That's this week on Green Energy Futures CKUA podcast. See video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/03/simple-easy-low-cost-shelf-solar-how-enmax-making-it-reality

2a. NAIT is preparing students for the renewable energy revolution May 14, 2012

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The NAIT Alternative Energy Program aims to fill a growing demand for renewable energy expertise. It’s a two-year program that teaches students how to design and install a broad range of green technologies ranging from solar to wind and even exotic technologies like fuel cells. There is a “definite knowledge gap out there regarding many of the green technologies,” explains instructor Don MacIntyre. Discover NAIT on this week's Green Energy Futures CKUA podcast. See video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/02/naits-new-alternative-energy-program-zeros-solar-wind-geothermal-and-more

2b. Learn how one rural Albertan is learning the renewable energy ropes at NAIT May 14, 2012

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Kolton Kasur left the family farm in Bashaw, Alberta to work in the oil patch until he came across NAIT's Alternative Energy program. "I think there’s going to be a huge future in [renewable energy] for farming communities and all rural areas," says Kasur. When he graduates he will have worked with everything wind to solar to geothermal to biofuels and even fuel cells. Check out NAIT's Alternative Energy program on CKUA's Green Energy Futures this week. See video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/02/naits-new-alternative-energy-program-zeros-solar-wind-geothermal-

1a. Chris Turner on the environmental benefits of high speed rail May 07, 2012

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This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures we talk to Chris Turner, author of The Leap about how Spain went from having one of Europe's worst rail systems to one of the best and the effect it had on their carbon footprint. See blog, video and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/01/author-chris-turner-taking-green-energy-leap

1b. The Leap - How Germany transitioned to renewable power May 07, 2012

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Germany is the best example of a country that has made the leap to renewable energy. In 10 years it's gone from 6.7 per cent to 20 per cent of its electricity provided by renewable energy. What did it cost regular Germans? If they didn't take advantage of the feed-in tariff program and, for example, install solar panels on their roof, the average German paid roughly an extra $50 a year on their utility bills. This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures we speak to Chris Turner, author of The Leap. See blog, video and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/01/author-chris-turner-taking-green-energy-leap

Green Energy Futures Pilot - Medicine Hat Smart program goes solar Apr 10, 2012

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When Medicine Hat aka “The Gas City” created the Hat Smart program to inject a little sustainable energy into their natural gas-fired electricity system residents really got fired up about solar energy and energy efficiency as Alderman Ted Clugston explains in this week’s Green Energy Futures CKUA podcast. http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/pilot/medicine-hats-smart-energy-revolution

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