Editor’s note: we wanted to share this excerpt from Lucie’s 2021 Clean50 Life-time Achievement Award announcement: “Simply becoming the first female refinery engineer for Shell Canada was not enough for Lucie: Over the past 30 years she’s subsequently…
How did you uncover this particular waste-to-worth opportunity? Initially, my work focussed on the treatment of hydrocarbon contaminated wastewaters. I was introduced to the worldwide need to treat animal wastewater when a local hog farm came looking for…
When I was at university, I could always tell when my friend had a major essay due: her room, normally a cluttered minefield, would suddenly become spotless and meticulously organized. She’d clean top to bottom, then bottom to…
Out of President Biden’s April 2021 Leaders’ Summit on Climate, countries from around the world committed to stronger climate action and underscored the urgency as they stepped up 2030 emission reduction commitments made as recently as 2015 in Paris at COP 21. In line with its peers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed that…
If you’re reading this, you probably need no convincing of the existence of climate change and its impacts. Most people are currently aware that burning fossil fuels has led to increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,…
When I entered university, I held a typical business-school attitude towards my future. You know the type: Climb the corporate ladder, make millions, capitalize on capitalism; but life had drastically different plans. During my first year of university,…
In the span of one meeting, I watched six months of work go down the drain. The experience was a wake-up call and helped turn me into a better entrepreneur. The beginning When The Growcer started, my co-founder…
I never thought I would be an entrepreneur. I enjoyed working with numbers and thought my career path would be to get an accounting degree and go work for one of the big four Canadian firms. Ha. Make…
COVID-19 has proven the importance of response planning and prevention for minimizing human and economic loss – the dire consequences of our poor relationship with nature. We need to reset and revive the economy with an entirely new…
Activists like me don’t claim to be the solution to climate change, but we are the fire alarm that allows for the rest of the climate justice ecosystem to intervene. Aliénor Rougeot, 2021 In September 2019, millions worldwide…
