Stories: Sustainable and Renewable Energy

Rethinking Renewable Energy

Rethinking Renewable Energy

Climate change isn’t just any challenge — it’s the biggest challenge of our time. The future of civilization hinges on our ability to scale up renewable energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions, rather than adding... More

Why Matt Chose Engineering at Carleton

Why Matt Chose Engineering at Carleton

The choice to study sustainable and renewable energy engineering at Carleton helped Matt combine his interests with practical career options. Matt’s story is one of many successful sustainable and renewable energy engineering graduates out in... More

Building to Net Zero

Building to Net Zero

In Canada, nearly 30 per cent of the energy consumed is used to heat and cool our buildings, producing more than 20 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. Renewables... More

Carleton’s Mario Santana Quintero Elected a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology International

Carleton’s Mario Santana Quintero Elected a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology International

Carleton University’s Mario Santana Quintero, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and cross-appointed with the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism, has been named a Fellow of the Association for Preservation Technology... More

Meet the Boreal Builders

Meet the Boreal Builders

In the summer of 2019, the Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek – Gull Bay First Nation (KZA-GBFN) began harnessing and utilizing renewable energy with its Giizis Energy solar storage micro grid facility – a first of its... More

Building Blocks

Building Blocks

Making our homes and workplaces more energy efficient is a crucial front in the fight against climate change. Roughly one-third of the world’s energy is consumed by buildings, and in Canada, where residential and commercial... More

Embracing Change

Embracing Change

Higher education, like much of the world, has entered a period of rapid change. Traditional approaches to teaching and research need to evolve to better equip students and professors with the tools they need to... More

Flaring in the Amazon

Flaring in the Amazon

Early on a Sunday morning in June, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Prof. Matthew Johnson and two Carleton graduate students hauled 700 pounds (more than 300 kilograms) of gear into the Ottawa International Airport. Eight large... More

Energy Road Map

Energy Road Map

The MoCreebec Eeyoud First Nation in Moose Factory, Ont., wants to reduce energy costs and take ownership of power consumption. Carleton University students Joshua Russell and Keelia LaFreniere are helping them figure out the best... More

Tiny House Opens Doors

Tiny House Opens Doors

Tiny House, Big Solutions

Tiny House, Big Solutions

Under an overhang of Carleton University’s Architecture Building, an interdisciplinary team of fourth year engineering and design students are developing sustainable solutions from the ground up. Small in size but ambitious in scope, a unique... More

Measuring Methane

Measuring Methane

In August 2016, when Carleton University’s Matthew Johnson was asked to lead a major research project measuring airborne methane in a pair of Alberta’s oil and gas production regions, the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor suspected that emissions of... More