Each Green Economy Hero podcast features someone you’ll enjoy getting to know. Leading environmental lawyer, Dianne Saxe, will explore who they are, what their business are doing, and how it is making a difference in facing our climate crisis. We will hear about their challenges, their successes, and their dreams. And we’ll learn their advice on how you too can build a green business in Canada.
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These inspiring videos feature visionary leaders working for an environmentally healthy and equitable society. They’re radically re-thinking our guiding economic ideas and practices. Just as economic motives and systems are driving the destruction of nature and human communities, a Green Economy can act as a restorative force. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a fertile hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental ...
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Welcome to The Green Renaissance – a new podcast series on the green recovery from the Partnership for Action on Green Economy. Join us once a month as we unpack the complex policy questions that will determine the fate of our economies, our societies, and our planet for decades to come. As well as providing policy and decision makers with new ideas and impulses for taking action, The Green Renaissance also targets other key stakeholders shaping public policy debates; mixing voices from gove ...
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This month we feature a Toronto company that identifies water and heat-saving opportunities for older building stock through automation and pinpoint monitoringPor Dianne Saxe
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Meet a Canadian clean tech company providing smart off-grid lighting from Bloor Street to urban Africa.Por Dianne Saxe
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An electrolysis firm delivering fuel savings technologies to the global marketplace straight from west Toronto.Por Dianne Saxe
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An Ontario firm is bringing high-quality, prefabricated homes to market with recycled materials and a reduced carbon footprint.Por Dianne Saxe
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Meet a local firm that is recycling rare earth minerals to achieve circularity in the new green economy and ramp up Canadian manufacturing.Por Dianne Saxe
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Tracking, managing, and reducing embodied carbon throughout the construction process.Por Dianne Saxe
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A Toronto-based firm takes on the solar challenge: complete site survey, engineering and design solutions for solar projects of any scale.Por Dianne Saxe
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Food and beverage providers are eager to do their part in diverting waste but often don't know how. Find out how a Toronto organization is successfully helping film sets and restaurants divert up to 80%.Por Dianne Saxe
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Enersion: Refrigerant-Free Heating and Cooling
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As the world heats we need more HVAC infrastructure thus accelerating global warming. Is it possible to break this vicious cycle? Hanif Montazeri has a plan for cooling and heating that is free of refrigerants and fossil fuels.Por Dianne Saxe
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Where can you buy scientifically valid Canadian carbon removal credits? Canadian climate scientist Phil de Luna tells Dianne Saxe about Quebec-based Deep Sky.Por Dianne Saxe
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The tables are turned as Toronto Mike'd interviews Dianne Save about exciting news in her life and how it impacts Green Economy Heroes.Por Dianne Saxe
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Electric assist cargo-bike rental companyPor Dianne Saxe
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Carbon neutral craft beer with local ingredients and minimal packaging waste.Por Dianne Saxe
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Most buildings can generate their own electricity if solar PV is integrated into the building cladding. Now cost competitive and appearing on buildings around the world.Por Dianne Saxe
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Low-toxic, low-carbon plant-based foams to replace petroleum, starting with insoles.Por Dianne Saxe
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Reusable, deposit-return packaging for takeout food.Por Dianne Saxe
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Green economy law firm that advises green business and nonprofit clients, and provides public education on climate law. Plus psychedelics.Por Dianne Saxe
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Pioneer of home and bodycare essentials in refillable, non-plastic, circular economy containersPor Dianne Saxe
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How Mike's passion and perseverance built a $60 million solar energy cooperative.Por Dianne Saxe
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How did Morgan Solar survive China's solar juggernaut, and stay Canadian?Por Dianne Saxe
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Replay: Venture Capitalism for Clean Tech
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Early stage funding so that breakthrough technology companies can grow through Canada's notorious valley of death.Por Dianne Saxe
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A marketplace that stealthily grows greener, lower-emission freight while saving money for Canadian manufacturersPor Dianne Saxe
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Why E-bikes are often a better solution than electric cars. Made in Canada too!Por Dianne Saxe
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Turning trash into cash and good, cheap meals. The food waste elimination app that’s growing explosivelyPor Dianne Saxe
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Turning imperfect and discarded food waste into delicious treatsPor Dianne Saxe
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Saving money and cutting climate pollution by turning commercial buildings, batteries and electric vehicles into virtual power plants that reduce electricity use in peak demand hours.Por Dianne Saxe
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Main Street bike store selling bikes intended as transportation.Por Dianne Saxe
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Pacts, Protests and the Legacy of COP26
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COP26 was described as "our last chance saloon" to save the planet. Over 35,000 delegates from 197 countries travelled to host-city Glasgow, and at the end we had a new climate agreement – the Glasgow Climate Pact, which will set the global climate agenda to 2030. But in the months since the response to COP26 has been predictably mixed – so what di…
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Toronto's urban organic farm, online grocer and sustainable food business incubator. Amazing how much they can squeeze into a tiny corner of the old Downsview Airport.Por Dianne Saxe
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How AI-enabled dashcams help municipalities cut costs and emissions in maintaining their roadsPor Dianne Saxe
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Biochar: real, long-term carbon sequestration plus soil regenerationPor Dianne Saxe
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The Multi-Billion Dollar Food Opportunity
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Our food systems are failing us. Over 800 million people are suffering from hunger, while 13% of the world’s population are obese. So what is to blame? Agricultural production follows the money. And 87% of the $540 billion given to agricultural producers each year is either price distorting or harmful to nature and human health. So what we can do t…
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Prefab panels for carbon-storing, high performance buildings that go up in record timePor Dianne Saxe
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How air, rock and water store electricity from wind and solar and clean our electricity grid.Por Dianne Saxe
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After years of struggle, a Newfoundland startup becomes a star with smart thermostats for electric home heatingPor Dianne Saxe
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Making delicious, low-carbon, local craft beer with organic hops they grow themselves on their organic farm.Por Dianne Saxe
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It's been said that pandemics act as a "great leveller" – but has that been the case with COVID-19? While it’s created millions of new millionaires – and even so-called “COVID billionaires” – it's also pushed 100 million others into extreme poverty. So should we be surprised? Or has COVID-19 simply exposed and amplified a series of inequalities tha…
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Making it easy for lots of people to fall in love with zipping around on an electric bike.Por Dianne Saxe
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Performance-based financing of water and energy upgrades for older buildings, toilets paying for boilers.Por Dianne Saxe
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Designing buildings for the zero-carbon future.Por Dianne Saxe
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Green Recoveries for a Jobs-Rich Future
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This month: reflections from PAGE@ HLPF 2021. How can governments grasp the opportunity to turn economic recovery into long-term, sustainable economic transformation - while also advancing on the SDGs? (The answer: a mix of finance, private sector incentives, citizen engagement, and partnerships). In Episode 8, we compile the best parts from PAGE's…
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Organic farming and leadership at Amara Farm
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How an immigrant and mother started an organic farm, and a Farmers Institute, and got elected, and got $200 million of federal money for climate-smart farming.Por Dianne Saxe
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Allowing small cities to both cut costs and improve transit service with existing buses.Por Dianne Saxe
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Quinn & Partners, sustainability consultants
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Fast growing pioneer in sustainable investing for investors, sustainable operations for companies.Por Dianne Saxe
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Symptoms of Change for Green Jobs in Peru
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Peru stands at a crossroads. Three-quarters of its workers are informal or self-employed. The country’s diverse natural resources–which serve as the backbone of its economy and labour market–are also under threat. So what is it doing to change the script? How is it addressing labour challenges and ensuring decent employment for all while also promo…
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Long-duration electricity storage through chemical transformations of zinc.Por Dianne Saxe
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Giizis Energy at Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek (Gull Bay First Nation)
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Canada’s first integrated solar microgrid displacing diesel in a remote community, environmental justice as part of reconciliation.Por Dianne Saxe
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Just over a year ago, as COVID-19 was causing personal, social and economic devastation across the world, government leaders were quick to announce their plans to “build back better” as part of a green recovery. At the time, we all listened. But were we too quick to take these statements at face value? 12 months on, have governments really been mat…
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Fieldless Farms, Growing great local lettuce indoors
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Solving our world record lettuce deficit while saving carbon, water and health.Por Dianne Saxe
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Li-Cycle, Truly recycling lithium ion batteries
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From a standing start to one of the world’s top cleantech companies in less than 5 years.Por Dianne Saxe
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