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414. Nation Building Energy Retrofits Coule Create $48 Billion in Economic Activity Aug 27, 2025

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Driven by the US trade war and Canada passed its Nation Building bill to fast-track nation-building projects to support economic and energy independence.

Monica Curtis of the Pembina Institute thinks we need to rethink the idea of nation-building mega projects and is proposing Canada launch a massive wave of building retrofit projects to support energy security, affordability for Canadians and to tackle one of the biggest boxes of greenhouse gas emissions - buildings.

She says this could create 200,000 jobs and $48 billion in economic activity and build the capacity and expertise we need to tackle the climate crisis and to build a future sustainable economy.

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413. Pedal Pub - Solar-Powered Pub Crawl in Cow Town VIDEO Aug 20, 2025

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VIDEO - Chris Packard of Firefly Solar was walking home from work when he noticed the Pedal Pub mobile bar bikes were plugged in. So he thought, "These should be solar powered."

Turns out Pedal Pub thought it was a great idea.

413. Pedal Pub - Solar-powered e-bike pub crawls in Cow Town Aug 20, 2025

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Chris Packard of Firefly Solar was walking home from work when he noticed the Pedal Pub mobile bar bikes were plugged in. So he thought, "These should be solar powered."

Turns out Pedal Pub thought it was a great idea.

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412B. Reza Nasseri - A Net-Zero Pioneer's Success Story - Part 2 Aug 12, 2025

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In Part 2 of our Green Energy Futures CKUA.com podcast, Reza builds his first net-zero home, and we follow his relentless pursuit of developing the most affordable net-zero home.

His work to design and build the simplest, most cost-effective net-zero design has gone from his first efforts in 2013 to today, when he has 100 net-zero homes in the works in Blatchford, Edmonton's Carbon Neutral Community.

It's an inspiring story which began when it was hard to sell net-zero homes that were ahead of their time to today when the building code is moving ever closer to a net-zero standard.

Nasseri's work has influenced the industry and the development of affordable net-zero homes.

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412. Reza Nasseri - Net-Zero Pioneer's Time Has Come VIDEO PODCAST Aug 12, 2025

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This week we celebrate net-zero pioneer Reza Nasseri, the founder of Landmark Homes who made it his mission to build affordable net-zero homes.

This is our special double VIDEO episode of our CKUA.com podcast.

We trace Nasseri's roots from immigrating to Canada from Iran, inheriting a cultural penchant for waste not want not and energy efficiency.

From his beginnings with net-zero homes almost 16 years ago, he has relentlessly focused on producing the simplest, most cost-effective formula for building super energy-efficient net-zero homes and has influenced the entire industry.

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412A. Reza Nasseri - Landmark's Net-Zero Pioneer Whose Time Has Come - Part 1 Aug 06, 2025

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Reza Nasseri began working on net-zero homes 15 years ago and is recognized as a pioneer and leader in net-zero design for production homes. In part 1 of our series, we trace his roots as a young electrical engineer and flesh out what motivates him to design and build the most affordable net-zero homes.

Nasseri is the founder of Landmark Homes, and ARQBuilt has developed a revolutionary automated factory for producing exceptionally high-quality homes.

We first met Nasseri in 2013 when we did a story on his work to build net-zero homes. Since then, he's built 40 net-zero and more than 120 solar-powered homes, and today it looks like his long-term goal of building large numbers of these super energy-efficient homes is coming true.

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411. Blatchford Community Garden - Local, Organic, Sustainable Food Jul 18, 2025

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When residents of Blatchford Carbon Neutral Community in Edmonton, Alberta, moved in, the community garden was already there!

Ever since the beginning, the raised beds and garden spaces were oversubscribed by residents looking to grow their own organic, local, sustainable food.

Interest in community gardening is surging with more than 80 community gardens in Edmonton, but as we learn in our story, funding for projects has been cut.

We talk to Kenzie Gordon, the Blatchford Community Garden Coordinator, Laura Cunningham-Shelpeley of the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues and Heather MacKenzie, a Blatchford Resident.

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410. Catastrophic Spanish Blackouts Not Due to Renewables Jul 04, 2025

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Renewables were not to blame for a catastrophic blackout in Spain in April 2025. We explore challenges and solutions to the growing renewable energy grid with Michael Liebreich, energy expert and founder of Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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409. Blatchford Virtual Power Plant - Selling Homeowners Solar Power Jun 24, 2025

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Blatchford carbon-neutral community is pioneering a virtual power plant project to link 100 solar-powered homes in a virtual network in a game-changing project.

Each home has a 20-kilowatt battery, and the pilot project will export electricity to the market in periods of high demand, thus helping the grid and generating revenue for the homeowners.

We talk to Geoff Ferrell of sonnen, the battery supplier for the project and Reza Nasseri, the founder of Landmark Homes a builder of solar-powered net-zero homes in Blatchford that is installing 100 battery systems that will be part of the network.

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408. Calgary's Climate Change Sign Guy takes his message to the streets of Alberta's oil capital Jun 11, 2025

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VIDEO - Roger Gagné was frustrated by a lack of action on climate change. He wrote scads of letters, he wrote articles, and he even created the Climate Plan Alberta website where 84 businesses and organizations joined him in a call for Alberta to develop a meaningful climate change action plan.

So he took his inspiration for the sign guy on Facebook and created a sign that says "Alberta is not ready for a world moving away from fossil fuels. Change my mind."He's now made almost 40 trips onto the streets of Calgary, Alberta's oil capital, and many other towns and cities in southern Alberta.

We talk to Roger about how he became the climate change sign guy in Calgary and how it’s going.

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