cover of episode 10. How Ontario ditched coal and involved thousands of citizens in renewable energy

10. How Ontario ditched coal and involved thousands of citizens in renewable energy

2012/9/10
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Green Energy Futures

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We start off this week's CKUA podcast with everyone's favourite 1967 Expo-era Ontario promotional tune. This earworm of a ditty was commissioned by the government of Ontario for the 1967 Expo in Montreal. While those Jetsonian fantasies didn’t come true Ontario is taking dramatic steps towards a renewable energy future. Imagine a place that is turning off all of its coal plants in just two years and replacing most of it with renewable energy. That is happening right now in Ontario. See Green Energy Futures video, blog and photos: http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/10/renewable-energy-revolution-ontario