This past August, W Dusk, a local, Indigenous-owned clean energy company, built the largest, community-owned solar project in B.C. at the Haida Heritage Centre in Skidegate, Haida...
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In Alberta, the future looks bright for Kuby Renewable Energy
When I called Jake Kubiski of Edmonton’s Kuby Renewable Energy, he needed a few minutes to deal with his growing solar company. Kuby was undergoing Alberta Labour’s Certificate of Recognition, a...
This new Canadian light switch talks back, senses temperature and saves energy
Company name: ecobee Job title: Director Product Management Amount of time with company: 2 years Education/Training: MBA, Schulich School of Business; BEng, India At ecobee, a Toronto cleantech...
How sales powerhouse Debbie Ellis is cleaning up Ontario’s grid
Debbie Ellis Job Title: District Sales Manager, Ontario Company: G&W Electric Canada For 27 years, Debbie Ellis has put her passion and motivation to work developing her career in sales at...
How Doug Tarry Jr. found his calling building homes that give back to the community
From left: the Tarry brothers, Bill, Greg and Doug Jr. “By the time I’m done talking, I think you’ll have your article.” Doug Tarry Jr. was right. The self-proclaimed “building science...
Nathalie McLauchlin will pay you to use less power
Nathalie McLauchlin loves saving energy so much that she even enjoys paying her customers to make it happen. At her day job as director of program operations, conservation and demand management for...
These new Vancouver homes save energy and money
While Vancouver’s Main Street buzzes with locals trying to beat the summer heat in one of the city’s most walkable neighbourhoods, a block away at Hayden by inHaus, the buzz is from construction....
Canadian electric buses clear the air in one of America’s smoggiest cities
Residents of Porterville, California, breathe some of the most polluted air in America—but many have little choice, if they want to pay the bills. Now, thanks to an upstart Canadian success story,...