Newsletters This year, I found a lot of my news came from the headlines of newsletters I subscribe to. My favourite newsletters of 2024 are… 1. Indigenous Clean Energy – Monthly Newsletter, 2024 Reflections What is ICE? A not-for-profit advancing Indigenous-led capacity building and collective action in Canada’s clean energy transition. ICE supports various initiatives […]
Informative Podcast episodes Books read I didn’t read as much as I usually do this year, but here were my three most enjoyed/thought provoking books of 2023: Blood Like Fate by Liselle Sambury; SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham; and The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. Community Partnership Events 2023 was my busiest in industry social
My first interaction with the term artificial intelligence, was when I saw the movie advertisements for Steven Spieldberg’s “A.I.”. In the movie, a robot named David, played by Haley Joel Osment becomes this near-future world’s first robot with human emotion and rationale. While androids are part of this world’s everyday life, they look exactly like
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June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada, officially since 2009 (then called National Aboriginal History Month). But I have only started hearing about it in the mainstream over the last few years. It’s an opportunity to deliberately set aside time in our days to honour stories, achievements, and resiliency of Indigenous Peoples. People who
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Back in 2016, I was told that the consulting firm I worked for had no interest in renewable energy. I remember the senior leader’s serious face as they told me “there is no money in that.” It was a feeling of energy disappearing in an instant, as my excitement for being part of the workforce
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We live in a busy world. Everything is trying to grab just a few seconds of our attention at all times. We’re glued to our smartphones, social media feeds, and the constant stream of information from a wide variety of sources. Information flow never stops. Most of us don’t stop either, until we collapse at
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I love reading, watching tv, and listening to music as much as the next person. But sometimes I’m tired. I want to be learning about something, but can only tolerate a single stimulus. That’s when I turn to podcasts. Over the past 12 months, I’ve listened to many podcast episodes that have helped me to
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In 1972 the United Nations held what is now referred to as the First Earth Summit. They adopted a declaration, set principles for the “preservation and enhancement of the human environment”, and made recommendations for international environmental action. Fast forward fifty years to today. Earth’s population is about to hit 8 billion people, in contrast
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Let’s start with the obvious answer: the best car for reducing your carbon footprint right now, is no car. It doesn’t matter if you get a fully electric vehicle and are able to charge it with 100% renewable energy. The materials that go into that car (and the electricity generation) have to be extracted from
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The BC Sustainable Energy Association (BCSEA) is a volunteer-based, charity that supports the sustainable production, distribution, and consumption of energy in British Columbia and beyond. The association collaborates with governments, industry, universities and other institutions, other non-governmental organizations, and citizens to put in place the conditions needed to accelerate the province’s transition to a lower-carbon
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