The projects that make a difference

Moment Energy uses retired car batteries to power Canada’s remote regions

Writing the future of renewable energy, Solaires’ Solar Ink is set to replace silicon on next-generation solar panels.

Big Plan on Campus: Wilfrid Laurier University’s Sustainable Hawk Fund Program helps build a culture of sustainability.

The Earth Rangers App engages the next generation of conservationists in taking action for what they love, how they live, and where they play: The Earth Rangers App

Lofty ambitions for hydrogen: Development and Implementation of the Hydrogen Strategy for Canada 

Energy Futures Lab is clearing the regulatory roadway to upcycling disturbed sites, Canada West Foundation helps put environmental white elephants to work.

Genus Capital Management’s Net Impact Score™ lets investors check their portfolio’s positive, negative, and net environmental impact, setting us all up for a win.

Lemay converts a 1950s-era warehouse into offices and a laboratory for innovations in sustainability and design. The Phenix rises to save 83% of annual energy costs.

The Telus $100M Pollinator Fund for Good shows growth of the best kind

When it comes to greening the economy, the Pembina Institute and its business coalition is delivering the goods 

Fort Chipewyan Solar: The Largest Off-Grid Solar Project in Canada, lights the way.

Red Deer College’s Alternative Energy Initiative offers a masterclass in alternative energy technologies –– and puts it on the test.

ALTRA, SANEXEN’s Next Generation trenchless water technology, is renewing the water lines that are our lifelines, while saving time, money and our environment

Glas Ocean Electric gets the data, proving there are cost effective AND responsible ways to float our boats.

A recipe for climate resilience calls for more salt marsh, and Clean Foundation’s Salt Marsh Restoration “Building Bridges” program delivers.

The successful Scius Advisory’s Construction Innovation Project creates a vision for BC and a blueprint for what is yet to be.  

To accelerate Canada’s adoption of solar, Google cranks up some catchy tunes and opens up their Sunroof.

In moving from their one million square foot space, Celestica makes a clean, green, break of it – Repurposing 5.4 million pounds of unwanted stuff to keep it from landfill.

Enwave’s Deep Lake Water Cooling at Toronto General Hospital provides sustainable comfort to patients and caregivers alike

Youth Climate Lab’s FutureXChange brings youth from Canada’s North and South together to help ensure present and future climate action

Now that’s a magic school bus; Kingston, Ontario invites its high schoolers to go for a public transit ride.

It’s EV to be green: Nova Scotia’s Next Ride program takes its show on the road to take the mystery out of switching to an electric vehicle.

After a lengthy tour and much time spent listening to young adults, FES has a better sense than most of the challenges they face, and ways to harness a future that works for all. The result is 22 innovative, practical solutions to pressing problems facing Canada. The Opportunity Report sets up the next generation on environmental leaders

Knickers with a twist: In designing and delivering stylish, sustainable period underwear for all bodies, Aisle shows how green is good for all kinds of bottom lines.

Bullfrog and RBC executed a PPA with BluEarth Renewables to enable the construction of two new utility-scale solar arrays totalling 39 MW.

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Let the circular economy be unbroken, and green: Greenfield’s anaerobic digestion project diverts 40,000 MT of organic waste per year to produce biogas and biofertilizer.Varennes says “YES in my back yard”!

Playing Your Cards Right: TransLink’s innovative Shared Mobility Compass Card creates a more viable and attractive transit option that leaves single personal vehicles in the dust.

EPCOR developed a Stormwater Integrated Resource Plan in Edmonton Alberta and what they did to address the rain may well become all the rage.

Knowledge about power is power; NRCan’s Smart Grid Program funds projects to reduce GHG emissions, while preparing the grid for tomorrow

Regeneration has the scoop on climate change fighting through soil regeneration and they founded the wildly Living Soils Symposium to help spread it around.

Grid Unlocked: The massive and ambitious First Nations led Wataynikaneyap Power Project will allow 17 First Nations communities to leave diesel behind by hooking them up to the power grid.

Maple Leaf Foods made an industry leading commitment in 2014 – and in 2019 they became the first major food company to be carbon neutral.
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The Ontario Association of Architects’ failing windows offer us a window into adapting existing buildings to address climate change.

Guelph’s 10C Shared Space/Chalmers Community Services Centre; A dynamic and replicable engine room for Guelph’s social change sector With its engaged, progressive community and lively, historic downtown, it’s easy to think that a project aligning10C Shared Space/Chalmers Community…

Canada has the potential to be a leader in clean technology, and not just because we’ve been insulating to save a little on the heating bill for a long time. Anyone familiar with the City of Waterloo, brimming…

I imagine Acton Ostry Architects would somewhat prefer that we not be making too big a fuss about their recently constructed Brock Commons Tallwood House that now graces the University of British Columbia Point Grey campus. At the…

Raindrops keep falling on my single biggest investment. Home Flood Protection Program helps keep homeowners above water It’s something just about every homeowner dreads. For many of us in Canada, the sound of rain instantly conjures up the…

Before the Global Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) Infrastructure there were no globally established tools to assess, validate, and benchmark the sustainability performance or the environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities of infrastructure funds and assets. Anyone seeking…

What if we reject the premise that moving means you throw a lot of stuff out, that some kind of literal or figurative pile on the curb is a natural byproduct of transitioning from one building to another?…