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“Our furnace kicked the bucket last March in the last cold snap. And that was kind of our instigating moment,” Samantha Shannon said.

The premise of the program is to teach other families across the country how to alter their lifestyles and homes to reach net zero.

An environmentally friendly Winnipeg family is taking 'going green' to the next level. They're part of a Canada-wide competition to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

The Shannon family are hoping to inspire others to take action to help our environment.

The Shannon family are hoping to inspire others to take action to help our environment.

A family in Dartmouth, N.S., has been selected to participate in a new carbon reduction competition. It's called Live Net Zero and it's put on by Canadian Geographic Magazine. It kicked off this week. As Celina Aalders reports, there's a big prize at stake.

Samantha and Kevin Shannon and their three children will be drastically reducing their energy usage by squaring off against other Canadian families as part of the Live Net Zero competition.

A Dartmouth couple is one of eight families across Canada picked to take part of Canadian Geographics Live Net Zero Challenge.

Ontario family declared winner of Canadian Geographic’s first Live Net Zero challenge

The Loewen-Nairs family traded in the suburbs for downtown living to reduce their carbon emissions. The couple explained that they decided to change their lifestyle by using e-bikes, walking and transit as their main modes of transportation once they moved downtown.