This is a great opportunity for home buyers to see the technology installed and working; ask questions about costs; and ask questions about successes and challenges.
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Dr. Jim Sandercock - Chair of the NAIT Alternative Energy Technology Program
Dr. Sandercock will present on NAIT's new program and the plans for the future. Come early for a guided tour of the NAIT Alternative Energy Technology Lab. The tour and presentation will be followed by the Solar Energy Society's AGM. We will review our past year, plan for the coming year and elect our 2012-2013 board of directors. Read More
The capital cost of a commercial building is only 8% of the life cycle costs. Come and visit a new breed of commercial building being built now in Edmonton!
After many years of arranging tours of homes in Edmonton the Eco Solar Tour is branching out to commercial buildings. This year as part of Environment Week we have arranged tours of 5 different commercial buildings to demonstrate energy efficient practices. Read More
There has never been a more compelling time to shrink our ecological footprint. Come and see how you can take action with your own home!
The 13th annual Eco Solar Home Tour is onSaturday June 9th, from noon to 4 pm. You will be able to soak up the first-hand experience of homeowners and other experts with a wide variety of energy and water resource-saving technologies in new construction and retrofit applications. Read More
Car Show: 5-9pm Seminar: 7-9pm
Free admission. See the Poster.
Matthew Sponier, the project manager for the University of Alberta Eco Car Project, will speak about their recently completed hydrogen fuel cell car just back from racing in the the 2012 Shell Eco Marathon. Read More
Free refreshments. Free discussion.
Are net zero energy houses really net zero? Northern Alberta has at least eight net zero homes. Some of them have been in operation for two years. We now have some preliminary data. Are our energy performance modeling tools sufficiently accurate? What more do we need to do to optimize the design? What improvements are possible? What new technologies are becoming available? The Solar Energy Society of Alberta is bringing together a distinguished panel of builders and designers to look at how we are doing and where we are headed in our quest to build completely self sufficient buildings in our Northern climate. Read More
A seminar by Warren Sarauer — Chair, Solar Energy Society of Alberta
How do you take a building whose business purpose is no longer viable due to market conditions and transform it into what will be the future in buildings - a carbon neutral footprint in a NetZero energy building? Business owner Warren Sarauer will offer a step-by-step portrait of the process of taking a fifty year old building and renovating it to the highest standards in energy efficiency without a sacrifice to function or aesthetics. Read More
The Alberta Utilities Commission (AUC) has announced a consultation initiative to potentially revise the AUC's application process for wind turbine development in Alberta. The Commission is seeking to determining if there are differences between wind-power generation projects and other energy generation projects that may require a different regulatory approach.
See announcement:
http://www.auc.ab.ca/news-room/bulletins/Bulletins/2011/Bulletin%202011-25.pdf Read More
Thanks to Gordon Howell of Howell-Mayhew Engineering for pointing us to this open house opportunity Read More
Thanks to Gordon Howell of Howell-Mayhew Engineering for pointing us to this open house opportunity
We have invested literally hundreds of hours into this learning curve and have networked with some of the most knowledgeable people in the sustainable building industry in Alberta. On Saturday, October 15th, we will be opening our home to the public to come and meet some of these forward thinking people and learn some of the many ways we can live a greener, healthier, more sustainable life. Read More
