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Scaling Conservation Technology: Why Governments Must Stop Standing in the Way
As biodiversity loss accelerates, Dr. Natalie Schmitt argues that conservation innovation is being slowed not by science, but by systems unprepared to deploy it. In Scaling Conservation Technology, she contends that tools like rapid, field-based DNA identification can…
Buried in Bill C15 – Due To Be Passed by Committee Monday – Is a Clause Which Suspends ALL Legislation Except the Criminal Code on a Single Minister’s Say So. Why That’s A Bad Thing…
In reviewing this, it’s important to understand 2 critical things: First, Ministers ALREADY have powers to temporarily step outside regulations and set those aside to create innovation “sandboxes”. A place where new ideas that might not conform to…
Buried in Bill C15 – Due To Be Passed by Committee Monday – Is a Clause Which Suspends ALL Legislation Except the Criminal Code on a Single Minister’s Say So. Why That’s A Bad Thing…
In reviewing this, it’s important to understand 2 critical things: First, Ministers ALREADY have powers to temporarily step outside regulations and set those aside to create innovation “sandboxes”. A place where new ideas that might not conform to…
Seventy-Five Business and ENGO Leaders from Across Canada Convene to Coordinate a Whole-of-the-Clean-Economy Push for Greater Government Support
Group Represents a Collective ~$200 Billion and Growing Contributor to GDP Two days ago, on Wednesday February 18th, a very disparate group braved winter storms, fraught air travel and terrible driving conditions, travelling from across Canada to explore…
Can Nature-Based Solutions Solve Our Wastewater Treatment Challenges—While Capturing Carbon?
As Canada’s wastewater systems strain under aging infrastructure, tighter regulations, and the rise of persistent contaminants, Francis Allard argues that discharge-based treatment models are reaching their limits. He contends that willow-based, zero-liquid-discharge phytotechnologies offer a fundamentally different paradigm:…
Houston, We Have a (Data) Problem! And Thus a Perception Problem…
Here’s What We’re Trying To Do at Clean50 To Fix That… Two of the things that the Clean50 has built over the past 15 years is first, the ability to operate as a trusted connector – putting the…
Nibi Is Life: Safeguarding Lake of the Woods in an Era of Climate Disruption and Austerity
As climate disruption intensifies across the Lake of the Woods watershed, Teika Newton argues that freshwater protection is a core public responsibility, not a discretionary environmental line item. She traces how legacy nutrient pollution, worsening algae blooms, and…
The Story We’re Not Telling About Canada’s Economic Reality
I was absolutely gobsmacked earlier this week by just how pervasive certain myths are, and thus realizing just how much work we in the “clean economy” have to do, before Canadians will believe we can transition – and…
Green Value Creation Program©: A Tool to Accelerate Investments in Emissions Reductions.
As capital constraints and carbon pricing reshape investment decisions in Canada’s industrial sector, emissions reduction is increasingly framed as a value-creation challenge rather than a compliance exercise. Francis Fournier outlines how Kruger’s Green Value Creation Program operationalizes this…









