This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures episode, we visit the largest solar farm in Western Canada at the Green Acres hutterite colony in Southern Alberta. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/hutterite-solar-western-canada-biggest

Edmonton launched it's Energy Transition Strategy earlier this year - we talk to Mayor Don Iveson about what energy transition might look like in a city with one of the dirtiest electricity supplies in Canada. Green communities, solar power and energy efficiency are all ideas being explored. Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/iveson-edmonton-energy-transition-strategy

A CKUA Green Energy Futures exclusive interview with Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson about oil city's strategy to transition from dirty to clean energy. For the full story and a full length feature interview see story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/iveson-edmonton-energy-transition-strategy

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures podcast we go to solar school. Randal Benson of Gridworks Energy Group has helped train more than 700 electricians and interested folks. Hear their stories! Full story: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/solar-pv-training-job

On this week's CKUA Radio Green Energy Futures podcast: How Kimberley BC began mining the sun on the site of the once largest lead-zinc mine in Canada. Learn more: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/sunmine-kimberley-bc-solar-pv

Sarah Pogue is a high school student in Calgary, Alberta with only a little singing experience. Here she is singing the song "Gravity."

This week on CKUA's Green Energy Futures - Mayor Gregor Robertson was elected two terms ago on a pledge to make Vancouver the "Greenest City in the World." We talk to the mayor about their latest pledge - to use 100% renewable energy in Vancouver by 2050.

TREC Education grew out of the Toronto Renewable Energy Coop after they built the first urban wind turbine in North America in the heart of Toronto's Exhibition Place. This week on Green Energy Futures CKUA Radio feature we go to class with grade 5s at George Webster School in Toronto to learn how to capture the wind.

This week on CKUA Radio's Green Energy Futures - Since the high school Sustainable Development Committee started students at Cochrane High School in Alberta have raised more than $149,000 and carried out more than half a dozen solar, wind and energy efficiency projects. Then came the "notorious wind project." That's when they became "A" students in politics, helping their town develop a renewable energy policy after facing angry neighbours.

Local leadership has proven to be the most effective at deploying effective sustainability solutions at all kinds. David heads to Toronto to learn how cities across the world going green.