We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. Lindsay, a Project Manager at the Town of Richmond Hill, demanding changes to the Clean50 Award program. During a conversation with Mr. Lindsay, we heard his concerns, and immediately…
Kanaka Bar Chief Patrick Michell loses home to raging BC forest fire Climate change has long been “real” to Chief Patrick – he’s spent much of his adult life leading the people of Kanaka Bar, and taking climate…
Like many Canadians, what I have learned over the past few years about how settlers have treated / still treat First Nations and First Peoples in Canada has horrified me. That horror amplified by the reports of these…
When the pandemic began fifteen months ago, few could have predicted how the subsequent period would unfold. The suffering has been enormous in so many ways, but the miraculous expertise of modern science and rapid vaccine development has…
For Canada to achieve its climate transition goals, it will undoubtedly require some heavy lifting. The country has an extraction-based economy and is a large producer of energy, much of it fossil-based. Its industry and economy are also…
In the early stages of my career, I was in high tech/venture capitalism in the heady days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990’s. Anything that could show hockey stick growth on a PPT was getting thrown…
Canada invests approximately $6 billion annually in efficiency upgrades, which is far below the $30 billion needed annually to achieve our climate goals for the low-carbon economy. This under-investment has persisted over the years and even though there…
Imagine opening an app on your smartphone that shows you all the different options of getting from A to B. Sounds like a dream, right? Welcome to a concept called multimodal integration or Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). The MaaS Alliance…
The “Kingston Model” Kingston developed a simple but powerful model to transform public transportation and it starts with training youth. On-bus orientation and free passes have increased annual high school ridership from 28,000 to close to 600,000. “I…
Between the pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis, things are looking rough – but you can still find hope through the actions of others. Today, we’re recognizing 11 Emerging Leaders living in Canada who are fighting climate change…
