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448. Love at First Build - Part 2 – Andrew and Jilaire’s Big Beautiful Net Zero Home
It was a journey full of blood, sweat, and tears, but Andrew and Jilaire Wagner were determined to build the most energy-efficient, amazing, large, heritage-styled homes they could. However, as business partners, life partners, and parents, this does come with challenges! We talk to the founders…
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447. Love at First Build - Jilaire and Andrew's Journey to Net Zero
Jilaire and Andrew's passion for building energy efficient homes and each other started right out of school. The couple sold their family home to finance their new home building business. Most couples might find being business partners, parenting partners and life partners a little overwhelming....
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446. Chainsaw Retrofit to Net Zero and the Secret Powers of the Energy Advisor
"Chainsaw Retrofit" sounds crazy, but...Discover the hidden magic of energy advisors and the amazing results of a “chainsaw retrofit” to net zero! Stephen Magneron from Homesol Building Solutions teamed up with Philip Coe of Revision Built to upgrade Philip’s 1970s bungalow all the way to net…
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445. The Secret Powers of the Energy Advisor and Urbandale's Journey to Net zero
Energy Advisors are the friendly faces behind the net zero movement! Let’s join master energy advisor Stephen Magneron from Homesol Building Solutions for a fun tour of Urbandale Construction’s Net Zero Ready homes in Riverside, Ottawa. We’ll see how his team teamed up with Urbandale to reach net...
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444. Energy Advisors: The Superheroes of the Net Zero Home Revolution
Working quietly behind the scenes, energy advisors are like secret weapons for builders aiming to create the most affordable net zero homes possible. This week, we’re heading to Ottawa, Ontario, to see how master energy advisor Stephen Magneron from Homesol Building Solutions teams up with…
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443B. The Ultimate Home Energy Hub - Batteries, V2G, Backup and more
This is the Home Energy Hub of the future! Cameron Shirt of Tribe Solar has just installed a home energy battery that has a solar inverter, V2G EV, home backup, DC fast EV charging and much more. This is the future of the home energy system that allows you to save your solar energy for use at...
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443. How a First Nations guy got into the Solar Business that is Leading the Way in Innovation
Cameron Shirt was reading a lot, and he felt "climate change is a real thing and nothing was being done about it."So he did a deep dive into the best solutions and decided solar was cost-effective and a great solution.So he began his journey with an electrician apprenticeship, then he worked for...
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442. AUDIO BLOG - Kyle Newman's Cost-Effective Strategies for Net Zero in Cottage Country
AUDIO BLOG - Kyle Newman of Stratton Homes in Huntsville, Ontario, avoided prescriptive green home certifications such as Passive House, instead building the most energy-efficient homes he could by cherry-picking the most cost-effective energy efficiency solutions he could find.He was looking for...
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442. Kyle Newman’s Cost-Effective Strategies for Net Zero Homes in Cottage Country
Kyle Newman of Stratton Homes in Huntsville, Ontario, avoided prescriptive green home certifications such as Passive House, instead building the most energy-efficient homes he could by cherry-picking the most cost-effective energy efficiency solutions he could find.He was looking for the best...
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441. VIDEO - If I Had a Hammer, I'd Build You a Net Zero Home in Cottage Country
Kyle Newman practically grew up with a hammer in his handand a deep love for nature. His dad taught him why energy-efficient homes matter. When Kyle started building his own place and homes forothers, he found it tough to meet strict standards like Passive House on atight budget. So he embraced…
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441. If I Had a Hammer, I'd Build You a Net Zero Home in Cottage Country
Kyle Newman practically grew up with a hammer in his handand a deep love for nature. His dad taught him why energy-efficient homes matter. When Kyle started building his own place and homes forothers, he found it tough to meet strict standards like Passive House on atight budget. So he embraced…
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440. AUDIO BLOG - A Data Geek Goes on Tour to Find Out What $330 Billion in Clean Energy Investment Looks Like
Jeremy Moorhouse is a data geek. He's been crunching the numbers on clean energy for more than a decade for organizations like the Pembina Institute, Clean Energy Canada and the International Energy Agency. He knows there's been $330 billion in clean energy investment in Canada over the last...
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440. A Data Geek Goes on Tour to Fnd Out What $330 Billion in Clean Energy Investment Looks Like
Jeremy Moorhouse is a data geek. He's been crunching the numbers on clean energy for more than a decade for organizations like the Pembina Institute, Clean Energy Canada and the International Energy Agency. He knows there's been $330 billion in clean energy investment in Canada over the last...
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439. AUDIO BLOG - Net Zero Tour - Amazing and Affordable
AUDIO BLOG - Affordability is the holy grail of net-zero home building, and thanks to two decades of pioneering work, Chris Williams of Avalon Master Builders in Calgary, Alberta, can now say you get net zero for zero extra dollars. Join us for a tour of these amazing net zero ready and net zero...
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439. Net Zero Tour - Amazing and Affordable
This changes everything! Chris Williams and Avalon Master Builders spent 18 years learning and perfecting the formula for building incredibly affordable net zero homes. Today, they can say they're building net zero for zero extra dollars. Some technologies have improved dramatically, such as cold...
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438. AUDIO BLOG - Net Zero for Zero Dollars
Listen to our blog Avalon Master Builder is creating some of the most budget-friendly net-zero homes in Canada! Ryan Scott and Chris Williams, who are business partners in Avalon, have dedicated almost 20 years to honing their skills and finding the most cost-effective ways to build net-zero...
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438. Net Zero for Zero Extra Dollars - Inside Avalon's 20-year Journey to Affordable Net Zero
Avalon Master Builder is creating some of the most budget-friendly net-zero homes in Canada! Ryan Scott and Chris Williams, who are business partners in Avalon, have dedicated almost 20 years to honing their skills and finding the most cost-effective ways to build net-zero homes.Their claim to…
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438. Net Zero for Zero Extra Dollars - Inside Avalon's 20-year Journey to Affordable Net Zero
Avalon Master Builder is creating some of the most budget-friendly net-zero homes in Canada! Ryan Scott and Chris Williams, who are business partners in Avalon, have dedicated almost 20 years to honing their skills and finding the most cost-effective ways to build net-zero homes.Their claim to…
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437B. Bringing Passive Solar Greenhouses to Pakistan and Canada
Last time on Green Energy Futures, we learned how passive solar greenhouses could help with affordability and food security in northern latitudes.This time, we learn about how Sadru Nazarali and his group, Egertonians and Friends, are bringing six pilot-scale passive solar greenhouses to Canada…
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437. Passive Solar Greenhouses, The Solution to Food Security in Northern Climates
VIDEO - Greenhouses in northern climates like Canada that rely on fossil fuels to stay warm often struggle to keep up in the highly competitive food industry. However, Sadru Nazarali sees Passive Solar Greenhouses as a game-changer for food production in northern countries, potentially…
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437A. AUDIO BLOG - Passive Solar Greenhouses, the solution to food security in northern climates
AUDIO BLOG - Greenhouses in northern climates like Canada that rely on fossil fuels to stay warm often struggle to keep up in the highly competitive food industry. However, Sadru Nazarali sees Passive Solar Greenhouses as a game-changer for food production in northern countries, potentially...
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437A. Passive Solar Greenhouses Key to Food Security in Northern Climates
Greenhouses in northern climates like Canada that rely on fossil fuels to stay warm often struggle to keep up in the highly competitive food industry. However, Sadru Nazarali sees Passive Solar Greenhouses as a game-changer for food production in northern countries, potentially transforming how…
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436. AUDIO BLOG - Doug Tarry Five Features that Define Net Zero
BLOG to Audio Podcast - Let us know if you like this! With almost 700 net zero ready and net zero homes under his belt, Doug Tarry is one of the leading builders of these amazing homes in Canada. These homes are affordable, efficient, and super comfortable to live in.We wanted to know what…
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436. Five Features that Define Doug Tarry Net Zero Homes
With almost 700 net zero ready and net zero homes under his belt, Doug Tarry is one of the leading builders of these amazing homes in Canada. These homes are affordable, efficient, and super comfortable to live in.We wanted to know what features make these homes special, so we took a tour to find...
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436. Five Features that Define Doug Tarry Net Zero Homes
Doug Tarry has built almost 700 net zero-ready and net zero homes in St. Thomas, Ontario. They're efficient, they're affordable, and he's a leader in building super energy-efficient homes in Canada.We wanted to know what the features are that make these homes so amazing - so we took a tour of a…
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435. The Future is Here - Doug Tarry Homes builds only net zero homes
FULL EPISODE - We dive into the fascinating journey of Doug Tarry, who has become a leading builder of net zero homes in Canada.Doug now exclusively builds only net zero ready and net zero homes making him one of the pioneers in this field.This inspiring story has the potential to revolutionize…
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435. The Future is here: Doug Tarry builds every home net zero ready
The Future of Homes is here!Doug Tarry Homes has been crafting net-zero-ready homes since 2019, and today, we’re among Canada’s top builders of net-zero homes.Join us in St. Thomas, Ontario, as we explore Doug Tarry’s incredible path to becoming a leader in all net-zero home construction....
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434. E-REVs Obsolete - Full Interview
E-REVs could be obsolete before they hit the showrooms, says Simon Lindley. Our full interview with Simon Lindley of the Trucked Up EVs YouTube Channel on the future of EVS in America. US automakers retreated from EVs along with that nation's retreat to fossil fuels - but the move will only serve...
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434. E-REVs Obsolete Before They Hit the Showroom?
Simon Lindley from the Trucked Up EVs YouTube Channel suggests that E-REVS might not be around when they finally make it to the showrooms.Extended Range EVs were once thought to be the perfect fix for the high cost and range worries of EVs, but with new tech and battery prices coming down, along...
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433. Land Ark's Net Zero Secret Sauce
What makes Land Ark’s Net Zero homes truly special?Join us on a tour with construction manager Kevin Rankin as we explore their award-winning net zero home in the Watercolour neighborhood of Westport, Ontario, to uncover its secrets.Land Ark has already constructed over 70 net zero and net...
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432. Creating Watercolour – A Net Zero and Walkable Community
Steve Rolston had a dream: to create a walkable community with net zero homes in a way that blends the charm of a cottage with the comfort of a full-sized home.There is no natural gas in Westport, Ontario, so Steve Rolston, the founder of Land Ark Homes, figured this was the perfect time to build...
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431B. Chasing Net Zero - It's here! Entire Communities of Affordable Net Zero Homes
Net Zero homes are becoming a reality, with entire communities popping up and being surprisingly affordable. One builder even calls them “Net Zero for Zero Extra Dollars!”In part 2 of our Chasing Net Zero series preview, we’re chatting with Sonja Winkelmann from the CHBA Net Zero Home Labelling...
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431A. Chasing Net Zero a new series on some of Canada's best net zero home builders
We are excited to announce that Green Energy Futures is heading out on tour to bring back stories of some of Canada's best net-zero home builders.We're calling the series Chasing Net Zero, which we are doing in collaboration with the Canadian Home Builders Association Net Zero Labelling program,...
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430. What if flexible gas could replace coal and get to 96% clean energy?
Instead of saying ban fossil fuels tomorrow, what if by using a small amount of flexible gas we could get to 96% clean energy?This is the thrust of Michael Liebreich's Pragmatic Climate Reset. Today, we talk to Anders Lindberg of Wärtsilä out of Finland, which makes flexible gas power plants. In...
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429. Carbon Pricing Shell Games and the Magic of a $130 Carbon Price
Understanding the proposed MOU between Alberta and Ottawa on energy and climate means diving into the shell games surrounding industrial carbon pricing - we dive in.There is a lot at stake here - Alberta wants less red tape for oil and gas, and Canada wants action on climate change. We talk to...
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428. SkyFire Diversifies Markets As Utility Scale Renewables Tank in Alberta
SkyFire Energy, one of Alberta's oldest solar companies, just acquired Hakai Energy Solutions, diversifying its markets into Coastal British Columbia. The move also adds battery storage expertise and off-grid experience to their offerings.The move comes as utility-scale solar in Alberta has...
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428. SkyFire Diversifies Markets As Utility Scale Renewables Tank in Alberta
SkyFire Energy, one of Alberta's oldest solar companies, just acquired Hakai Energy Solutions, diversifying its markets into Coastal British Columbia. The move also adds battery storage expertise and off-grid experience to their offerings.The move comes as utility-scale solar in Alberta has...
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427. Billions Lost from Alberta's Vanishing Renewable Energy Projects
Alberta's hostile treatment of the renewable energy industry has resulted in nearly 15 gigawatts of projects worth billions of dollars vanishing into thin air. In just a few years before the province's moratorium and subsequent policy changes, Alberta benefited from $6 billion in investment in...
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426. Three Students Want to Take Climate Education to 100 Countries
Meet Dev, Ayush and Abhi – three students in the business club at Adrian Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, California, who wanted to make an impact. So they created Green Silicon Valley, a non-profit set up to deliver STEM-based environmental presentations to their peers in other schools.Their...
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426. Three Students Want to Take Climate Education to 100 Countries
Meet Dev, Ayush and Abhi – three students in the business club at Adrian Wilcox High School in Santa Clara, California, who wanted to make an impact. So they created Green Silicon Valley, a non-profit set up to deliver STEM-based environmental presentations to their peers in other schools.Their...
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Hero School Students Fight Poverty by Building Things for the Community
It's pretty cool that Long Way Home builds schools out of waste materials, but even cooler is their curriculum that blends sustainable, hands-on learning with the regular curriculum.Students are designing, building, and installing safer stoves for local families. And they are also learning to…
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425B. Hero School Students Fight Poverty by Building Things for the Community
It's pretty cool that Long Way Home builds schools out of waste materials, but even cooler is their curriculum that blends sustainable, hands-on learning with the regular curriculum.Students are designing, building, and installing safer stoves for local families. And they are also learning to…
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425. Long Way Home - Building Sustainable Schools Out of Trash in Guatemala
Part 1 - When Matthew Peneitz signed up with the Peace Corps to do work in Guatemala, it changed his life. The poverty he saw impacted him so much that when he returned home to the US, he sold his car for cash and headed back where he started Long Way Home, a non-profit that fights poverty…
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425. Long Way Home - Building Sustainable Schools Out of Trash in Guatemala
Part 1 - When Matthew Peneitz signed up with the Peace Corps to do work in Guatemala, it changed his life. The poverty he saw impacted him so much that when he returned home to the US, he sold his car for cash and headed back where he started Long Way Home, a non-profit that fights poverty…
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424. Affordable Chinese EVs Coming to Canada
Agricultural tariffs imposed against Canada by China have been slashed, and Chinese EVs are coming to Canada thanks to a new deal struck by Prime Minister Mark Carney with China.The deal will allow 50,000 Chinese EVs into the Canadian market at a low tariff of 6% and more in the future. And at...
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424. Affordable Chinese EVs Coming to Canada
Agricultural tariffs imposed against Canada by China have been slashed, and Chinese EVs are coming to Canada thanks to a new deal struck by Prime Minister Mark Carney with China.The deal will allow 50,000 Chinese EVs into the Canadian market at a low tariff of 6% and more in the future. And at...
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423. New Energy Outlook Report projects 10 to 15X growth in wind and solar in Canada
Great news! We finally have an all-Canadian Renewable Energy Market Outlook report!For a while, most of the renewable energy outlooks in Canada were based on information from the US. But the Canadian Renewable Energy Association and Dunsky Energy and Climate Advisors have teamed up to create…
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423. New Energy Outlook Report projects 10 to 15X growth in wind and solar in Canada
Great news! We finally have an all-Canadian Renewable Energy Market Outlook report!For a while, most of the renewable energy outlooks in Canada were based on information from the US. But the Canadian Renewable Energy Association and Dunsky Energy and Climate Advisors have teamed up to create…
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422. Rooftop Solar is Booming - A Survey Finds Out Why People are Going Solar
Roof-top solar is booming! A US-based solar company wanted to find out why, so they surveyed 2,000 homeowners. In the early days of solar, people did it for the environment, but that's all changed as Nick Hofer of SolarTech explains in the GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com podcast. Subscriber Today…
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422. Rooftop Solar is Booming – A Survey Finds Out Why People are Going Solar
Roof-top solar is booming! A US-based solar company wanted to find out why, so they did a survey of 2,000 homeowners. In the early days of solar, people did it for the environment, but that's all changed as Nick Hofer of SolarTech explains in GreenEnergyFutures.ca CKUA.com podcast. Subscriber…
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