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Mark Jaccard - Many Solutions
Promethea Rising - June 04, 2021 17:57 - 29 minutesMark Jaccard is an energy and environment economist and author of The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success. Mark is a professor of sustainable energy in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. Originally from Vancouver, he did his doctorate at the Institute...
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Eddie Oldfield - Lessons from New Brunswick Communities
Promethea Rising - May 21, 2021 18:41 - 18 minutesEddie Oldfield has been promoting resilient community for over two decades and he is seeing progress. Eddie chairs the QUEST NB-PEI Caucus, working to advance Smart Energy Communities, and is Senior Lead, Projects, and Advisory Services at QUEST. While contributing nationally, Eddie has consi...
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Gaby Kalapos - Sharing Success
Promethea Rising - May 07, 2021 12:00 - 22 minutesGaby Kalapos is passionate about local governments and the role they can play in building energy conscious communities. Gaby has been working to motivate and support local government action on clean air and climate change for over 20 years. She is currently Executive Director of the Clean Air P...
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Herb Sinnock - Beyond Borders
Promethea Rising - April 23, 2021 13:30 - 21 minutesHerb Sinnock has been leading an energy transition at Sheridan College campuses that is having remarkable community benefits. We often think about community energy planning at the scale of a municipality – a city or a town. However, the practice can be equally beneficial at the scale of a neigh...
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Kirby Calvert & Rebecca Jahns - Mapping the Energy Transition
Promethea Rising - April 09, 2021 13:00 - 25 minutesEveryone loves a good map that helps us understand the world around us. My guests Kirby Calvert and Rebecca Jahns use maps to build energy conscious communities. Successful community energy planning ensures stakeholders and community members who may be impacted – either directly or indirectly –...
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Milfred Hammerbacher - Building Better
Promethea Rising - March 26, 2021 12:47 - 23 minutesA net zero neighbourhood means that no energy is drawn from the electricity grid or from pipelines and no greenhouse gases are released. Easier said than done but my guest Milfred Hammerbacher is figuring out how. Changes to the country’s building codes are helping us build more energy efficien...
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Matthew Day & Kate Daley - Breaking the Status Quo
Promethea Rising - March 11, 2021 21:28 - 24 minutesSocial innovations are needed to accelerate the transition to a decarbonized energy system. My guests Matthew Day and Kate Daley are leading a collaboration dedicated to deep and sustained investment in a smart energy future. When a community has developed a community energy plan and has set go...
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Peter Garforth - No Small Measures
Promethea Rising - February 26, 2021 16:24 - 23 minutesPeter Garforth has been leading transformational change his entire life. Now he has his sight set on accelerating the energy transition in communities. Any credible plan to reduce greenhouse gas emission must address the energy performance of our existing homes and buildings in Canada. Given mo...
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Lorrie Rand - Improving our homes to protect the planet
Promethea Rising - August 28, 2020 16:00 - 18 minutesLorrie is President and Co-owner of Habit Studio, a Halifax design firm that specializes in sustainable residential work. After spending nearly twenty years designing 20 to 40 renovations per year, her goal as one of the founders of the ReCover Initiative is to reduce the financial and technical...
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Ralph Torrie - Imagination is the barrier not technology
Promethea Rising - August 07, 2020 16:00 - 27 minutesRalph Torrie has always been interested in the interface between science and society. That interest has deeply informed his contribution to promoting energy conscious communities. Like others, Ralph has concluded that the climate crisis is not limited by a lack of technology but our imaginatio...
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Louise Comeau - Love Motivates Change
Promethea Rising - July 24, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutesDr. Louise Comeau has played an instrumental role in shaping Canadian climate policy over the last 30 years. She has concluded that love and a deep caring for the planet is the primary motivator of change. Louise began her career as a climate change campaigner with Friends of the Environment an...
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Mike Cleland - Transforming Conversations
Promethea Rising - July 10, 2020 16:00 - 21 minutesMike Cleland’s career has dominated by energy and climate change policy through his work with government, trade associations, think tanks and academia. With early roots in political science and urban planning, he has been able to uniquely bridge national and community energy perspectives and eng...
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Deniz Ergun - Empowering Communities to Act
Promethea Rising - June 26, 2020 16:00 - 22 minutesDeniz Ergun’s interest in environmental issues began at an early age. Today, through her role at the Town of Oakville, she works with the community to make a difference on climate change. Over 400 Canadian communities have completed a community energy plan over the last decade or so. However, ...
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Kirby Calvert - Engaging People in the Energy Transition
Promethea Rising - June 12, 2020 13:00 - 22 minutesKirby Calvert is an Associate Professor with the Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Guelph. As a social scientist, he brings an important perspective to the practice of community energy planning. Very early in his academic career, he saw the importance of engaging people i...
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Tonja Leach - The voice of Smart Energy Communities in Canada
Promethea Rising - May 29, 2020 16:00 - 16 minutesTonja Leach is the Executive Director of QUEST and a leading voice in Canada on Smart Energy Communities. She talks about her work with QUEST to bring people together to build a sustainable energy future for Canadian communities. "We have done the finger pointing, whether you are an environmen...
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Promethea Rising Trailer
Promethea Rising - April 29, 2020 18:25 - 2 minutesHi. My name is Karen Farbridge and I am host of Promethea Rising, a podcast dedicated to promoting energy conscious communities. Join me as I talk to good people working to solve a wicked global problem. Prometheus was a cultural hero in Greek mythology. He got into trouble when he defied the g...
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Rob Kerr - The economy is the missing ingredient
Promethea Rising - April 08, 2020 16:54 - 29 minutesRob Kerr has dedicated his career to promoting energy conscious communities, globally and locally. In our conversation, we explore the growth of energy conscious communities and how the economy is an essential part of the conversation. “Talking about climate change and energy efficiency is ofte...
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