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What is Clean Energy? (Season 2, Ep. 2)

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Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond

A podcast from Sierra Club BC

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Every time we think we’ve seen how badly climate change is impacting us, we see another level of damage. The fall of 2018 saw the destruction of an entire California town by wildfires. Climate impacts are forcing millions of people worldwide to migrate. The need for the clean energy transition is clear, the debate is now about how fast and in what way it needs to happen.

In this episode, we begin with basic questions: What makes energy clean—or not? What are “transition fuels” and do we have time to develop them?

To explore them, Caitlyn and Sue turn to Sierra Club BC’s Senior Forest and Climate Campaigner Jens Wieting and energy policy researcher Zoë Yunker. We hear from Molly Wickham, a spokesperson for the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en Nation on the real impacts of one so-called “transition fuel.”

And we have insightful conversations with National Observer journalist Emilee Gilpin and award winning author and sustainability expert Guy Dauncey on the urgency of this transition to clean energy.

Listen to Episode 3 next or find all of our previous episodes here.

Season 2 Episode 2 interviewees

L-R: Emilee Gilpin, Molly Wickham, Jens Wieting, Zoë Yunker, Guy Dauncey

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Find more from Sierra Club BC’s Jens Wieting on Twitter and on our Stories page

Stand with the Wet’suwet’en: Gidimt’en Yintah Access and Unist’ot’en Camp

Read and listen to the First Nations Forward series and more from Emilee Gilpin in the National Observer

Visit Earth Future for more from Guy Dauncey

Listen to our extended interview with Guy Dauncey

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Washington State bans fracking

Provincial CleanBC Climate Plan

$40B LNG project in northern BC gets go-ahead

IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C

 

Feature image: T’Souke Nation solar project. Photo by Caitlyn Vernon

Mission Transition Season 2 Trailer

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Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond

A podcast from Sierra Club BC

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Nearly every day now, we hear of some new innovation moving the world toward clean energy. The transition away from fossil fuels is firmly underway. For many of us, this means installing solar panels, buying an electric vehicle or maybe giving up the car altogether.

But this transition raises many questions most people haven’t even started to consider. What actually counts as clean energy? Who should make decisions about how it’s produced—and how do these projects impact communities? How do we need to rethink land use in a clean energy economy?

Sierra Club BC’s podcast Mission Transition: Clean Energy and Beyond dives into these questions and more with interviews from thinkers and doers who are all passionate about making the transition happen.

The podcast is produced by award-winning former CBC journalist Susan Elrington and co-hosted with Sierra Club BC Campaigns Director Caitlyn Vernon, with production help from Kat Zimmer, Manager of Communications.

Listen now at sierraclub.bc.ca/podcast or subscribe to Mission Transition for free on Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and most podcast apps.

This is a conversation. Tag @SierraClubBC on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to let us know your thoughts on the energy transition. And, if you like what you hear, please share this podcast with your friends and family and give Mission Transition a five-star rating and review on iTunes.

 

Our podcast, Mission Transition is back May 21! Hear insights about clean energy and beyond with award-winning former CBC journalist Susan Elrington and our Campaigns Director, Caitlyn Vernon. Subscribe for free and catch up on Season 1 💡https://sierraclub.bc.ca/podcast/

Posted by Sierra Club BC on Friday, 17 May 2019

 

About Mission Transition

Released in 2018, the first season of Mission Transition showed listeners the possibilities of the transition to clean energy with energy efficient buildings, cars and food production. We talked to workers about the declining job openings in fossil fuel industries and the need to retrain workers for a clean energy economy.

Now, Season 2 aims to examine the transition beyond solar panels and electric vehicles to look at the larger questions this transition brings. We’ll hear from journalists, decision-makers, activists, entrepreneurs, Indigenous land protectors and more. And we share the inspiring story of how communities on Haida Gwaii are working toward their goal of going 100% renewable. In our first episode, Youth Up Front, a group of youth climate strike organizers share their visions for the future.

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Bonus Interview: The Solar-Powered Bakery

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Mission Transition Podcast Interview: Dave Grove and Brad Kiss

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In Mission: Transition we’ve talked a lot about government policies that will make the transition happen faster. But we all have our part to play.

Electric Vehicle Charging Station outside of Royal Bay Bakery

In this final bonus interview, Susan sits down with Dave Grove, a small business owner who started out with an electric car – and ended up going green from top to bottom at his bakery business near Victoria.

Dave’s clean energy journey shows us we all have an opportunity to start right where we are, in our own communities. Through his story, we see how big changes can be made toward a strong clean energy economy, step by step.

Dave recently retired, and Royal Bay Bakery has been taken on by new owners Brad and Ashley Kiss, who wanted this bakery out of all the bakeries in the world because of Dave’s clean energy work.

Royal Bay Bakery new owners Brad and Ashley Kiss

 

Sue speaks with Brad, who leaves us with some final words to remember:

“Do your part. Be clean. Be contentious of what you’re doing. It’s our responsibility to do our share to have the smallest carbon footprint for our future, for the planet’s future, for our kids’ future.”

You can hear more from Dave and others in Episode 6: Community Power: Taking Action where we talk about what happens to jobs as we shift to the next economy.

 

Tag @SierraClubBC on Facebook and Twitter to let us know what you think about BC’s clean energy economy. You can subscribe to Mission Transition on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out more episodes of Mission Transition and pledge your support for clean energy at sierraclub.bc.ca/podcast.

 

 

 

Bonus Interview: Growing Food All Winter Long

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Mission Transition Podcast Interview: Matthias Zapatal

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Vertical Grow Tanks

When thinking about moving to a clean energy economy, we often think in terms of replacing what we have now with a cleaner version of energy.

For example, many people believe the best solution to huge gas guzzling trucks is to make huge electricity guzzling trucks.

In Episode 5: Who Owns Our Power? we talk about ways to change our thinking so we consume less electricity overall. One strategy is to eat food grown close to home, in order to avoid trucking fresh produce from the south to the north.

 

In this bonus interview, Susan Elrington visits Matthias Zapatal at Northern Bioponics in Prince George. Matthias is using aquaponics to grow lettuce all year around and explains how his system could work to feed Prince George through the long cold winter months.

Tag @SierraClubBC on Facebook and Twitter to let us know what you think about BC’s clean energy economy. You can subscribe to Mission Transition on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out more episodes of Mission Transition and pledge your support for clean energy at sierraclub.bc.ca/podcast.

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Bonus Interview: Skilling Up For The Next Economy

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Mission Transition Podcast Interview: Lliam Hildebrand

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It’s widely assumed that oil and gas workers are against the development of renewable energy. When we were developing this podcast, we expected to hear a lot of resistance from workers in fossil fuel industries.

But instead, we met people who were curious about a clean energy economy. And it was those kinds of curious conversations that spurred oilsands worker Lliam Hildebrand to act.

In this bonus interview, Susan Elrington sits down with Lliam to hear how his worker-led nonprofit Iron & Earth is helping oil, gas and coal workers transition to the next economy.

About Lliam:

Lliam started out his boilermaker career in Victoria building pressure vessels for the oilsands and infrastructure for renewable energy projects. He realized that his trade skills could be used to transition the world to renewable energy, and this dream led to the founding of Iron and Earth.

You can hear more from Lliam and others in Episode 3: Jobs in Clean Energy where we talk about what happens to jobs as we shift to the next economy.

Tag @SierraClubBC on Facebook and Twitter to let us know what you think about BC’s clean energy economy. You can subscribe to Mission Transition on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out more episodes of Mission Transition and pledge your support for clean energy at sierraclub.bc.ca/podcast.

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Bonus Interview: The Lego Block House

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Mission Transition Podcast Interview: Arno Keinonen and Michael deChamplain

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Hemp fibre blocks. Photo courtesy of Just BioFiber.

It’s being called the “Lego Block” House. In this bonus interview, you’ll find out why.

Susan Elrington interviews the man who’s building his house out of super energy-efficient Just BioFiber hemp blocks—and the man whose company makes them. Arno Keinonen of Harmless Home and Michael deChamplain of Just Biofiber are leading the way toward a smart new approach to building.

Recycling hemp fibre ‘lego’ blocks

Listen to Episode 2: Building Smarter to hear more from Arno and Michael and find out how you can start saving energy in your own home.

Tag @SierraClubBC on Facebook and Twitter to let us know what you think about BC’s clean energy economy. You can subscribe to Mission Transition on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts. Check out more episodes of Mission Transition and pledge your support for clean energy at sierraclub.bc.ca/podcast.

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Feature image courtesy of Harmless Home.

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