Upcoming Events
Low Rise Residential: Vancouver’s path towards 100% renewable energy
Low Rise residential makes up 70% of what Vancouver builds annually (in terms of heated floor area), this presentation will...
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An Overview of IESO’s Save on Energy Programs for First Nations Communities
In this session, Jimmy Lu from the IESO will provide an overview of energy efficiency in Ontario, the First Nations...
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Powering the Canadian Electricity Workforce
EHRC (Electricity Human Resources Canada) is a non-profit organization supporting the human resources needs of the Canadian electricity and renewable...
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Efficiency Canada’s Five Key Areas for 2023
Join Efficiency Canada Executive Director Corey Diamond to find out what Efficiency Canada is prioritizing in 2023, and how it...
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Empowering municipalities to adopt net-zero building codes
Join us to discover more about the top barriers and enablers to adopting the 2020 Model Codes. Kevin Lockhart, Research...
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Small Investments, Big Savings: Insights From Our Small Business Energy Workshops
Thinkwell Shift will share how they have been helping local brick-and-mortar businesses uncover 10-20% energy bill savings through hands-on workshops,...
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The Canada Green Buildings Strategy
Learn about the latest version of the Green Buildings Strategy October 14, 2022.
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Applying energy efficiency skills and knowledge to building operations
Learn how maximizing the efficiency of building operations provides an opportunity to save energy, and money and decrease greenhouse gas...
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Becoming a Program Manager
How do I start my own energy design firm? Where can I learn best practices in sustainable construction? Luke Dolan...
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Becoming an Energy Advisor
How do I start my own energy design firm? Where can I learn best practices in sustainable construction? Luke Dolan...
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How carbon neutrality is affecting organizational action (part two)
Learn about carbon neutral projects, how they can affect electricity use and costs, what programs may exist to offset project...
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Enabling Communities with Energy Efficiency Advocates
Learn how Efficiency Manitoba deploys energy efficiency advocates to develop a long-term energy efficiency plan for the community.
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Q&A with Corey Diamond
Learn about the latest version of the Green Buildings Strategy September 9, 2022.
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Taking Action on Housing Renovations
Learn how Community Power and Takla NaLearn how Community Power and Takla Nation are taking a practical approach to developing...
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PACE for New Homes – A Cross-Canada Exploration
The use of Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing is expanding across Canada with a current focus on existing residential...
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What’s next – Planning for an energy efficient future with innovative partnerships
Launched in September 2021, Efficiency Manitoba’s Innovation Fund supports new and innovative energy-efficient technologies and approaches in the Manitoba market....
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Benchmarking Canada and US Energy Efficiency Savings and Spending
Efficiency Canada’s latest report compares Canadian province and American state energy efficiency program savings and spending. We benchmarked metrics from...
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Stuck – Overcoming inertia to drive a home electrification movement in British Columbia
This presentation will summarize the key takeaways from OPEN's and Vancity's recently released report, and their structural recommendations for policy...
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Building the future of energy efficiency
Energy efficiency's role in global climate plans is growing, and we need skilled workers now more than ever. Fortunately, there's...
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Beyond national targets: What does Carbon Neutrality and GHG reduction mean for your organization
At this point, most of us are familiar with Canada’s emissions reduction plans, which call for a reduction in emissions...
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Learn how you can add your voice to StepUp’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion baseline study of Canada’s Energy Management sector
StepUp is undertaking a study that will include a survey and a corresponding report that aims to provide a baseline...
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Iron & Earth: The Climate Career Portal
The Climate Career Portal is a first of its kind online career transition platform created to help fossil fuel workers...
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How international collaboration is creating new tools and standards for building decarbonization
ASHRAE recognizes that their long-standing initiatives in energy efficiency should be expanded to building decarbonization. Hear how this new taskforce...
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Efficiency For All: Low-income energy efficiency programs in Canada
A recent research report from Efficiency Canada reviews provincial/territorial low-income energy efficiency programs with lessons for federal policy in Canada...
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Energy efficiency inequality: How income qualified programs vary across Canada
Amidst rising energy costs and an increase in extreme weather events, income qualified energy efficiency programs are key for ensuring...
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The Italian Superbonus – 110% as a way to increase deep retrofits
In May 2020 the Italian government put in place a big incentive for retrofits: the so called “superbonus 110%”. After...
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EVs in Rural and Remote Communities
Many rural and remote communities are interested in the role that electric vehicle (EVs) can play in reaching their decarbonization...
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2022 – Pilot Findings: Reaching Income Qualified Ontarians
Join Luke and Sasha to learn how they worked together to identify new pathways and messaging to increase participation in...
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Power of the Utility Customer in Decarbonization
While the world focuses on supply-side solutions to decarbonization, there are utility customer actions that drive decarbonization faster and more...
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David vs. Goliath – How Solar Nova Scotia went up against Nova Scotia Power and Won
This talk will outline how Solar Nova Scotia mobilized a coordinated advocacy strategy and social media campaign against the utility’s...
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Deep Energy Retrofits, Panelization, and Total Cost of Building Ownership
A review of a case study carried out in Nova Scotia looking at low-rise MURBs and an EnergieSprong-esque approach to...
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Embodied Carbon – The Blind Spot of the Building Industry
Our industry has mostly ignored embodied carbon, even though it will account for almost half of total new construction emissions...
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Future of Refrigerants in Residential and Light Commercial
The Kigali Amendment and climate change are bringing another generation of refrigerants to comfort cooling applications, specifically residential and light...
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SOFIAC: Innovative Financing for Energy Efficiency
La Société de financement et d'accompagnement en performance énergétique (SOFIAC) is an innovative private initiative of $200M that offers to...
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2021: A year in review
Join executive director Corey Diamond as we take a stroll down memory lane to look back at all the good...
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Behavioural Insights and Energy Efficiency: An Introduction
After a concise introduction to the behavioural insights approach, attendees will be taken through case studies where the approach has...
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Addressing the need for charging infrastructure to enable adoption of efficient, electric vehicles
Electric vehicle adoption is being spurred on by technology progress and supportive policies. Yet the provision of charging infrastructure in...
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2021 Energy Efficiency Scorecard
James and Brendan will present the results of Efficiency Canada's 2021 Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard. The Scorecard evaluates provincial policy...
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Becoming a Carbon Neutral Community
Pocket Change is a project of the Pocket Community Association representing a neighbourhood of approximately 1,100 homes, housing 3,500 individuals...
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The Future of Refrigerants – Change is all around us
Wholesale changes for all HVACR stakeholders are coming over the next few years. Every product and system will change: Refrigerants,...
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The Retrofit Challenge: Canada’s Emerging Pathway for Building Decarbonization
Approximately 10,000 Canadian towers are in need of deep energy retrofits. But it is more than technical expertise needed to...
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JeRénovÉco – A PACE approach program designed for Québec
Energy efficiency and demand-side management are key to a clean energy transition and decarbonization of the residential sector in Quebec....
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Energy Efficiency Career Hub
We’re welcoming partners from across Canada to help shape the recently launched Energy Efficiency Career Hub. This is a space...
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FortisBC’s Diversified Pathways
FortisBC has worked collaboratively with government to deliver on the promise of CleanBC and in 2018 we released the Clean...
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Energy Savings for Business Program: Delivering Efficiency in a COVID World
Emissions Reduction Alberta (ERA) launched the Energy Savings for Business Program in February 2021. The program offers commercial and industrial...
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How CleanBC is ensuring B.C. multicultural communities are included and supported in the Better Homes rebate program
CleanBC and Empower Me will share how the Better Homes program has included a full, wrap-around support service to ensure...
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Residential Energy Saving Kits: A First-Step to Engage Customers
Learn how energy efficiency kits can be used to engage homeowners, and support other efficiency programs, especially while many direct...
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Equalby30 Advancing Diversity & Inclusion in the Energy Sector
This session will take a look at Diversity & Inclusion in the Energy Sector. Participants will see how artificial intelligence...
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EfficiencyOne White Paper 2050: Net-Zero Carbon Nova Scotia
EfficiencyOne, in collaboration with Ralph Torrie, has authored a White Paper that explores the technological and related challenges and opportunities...
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What’s Up Down Under?
Earlier this month, Corey Diamond sat down with Luke Menzel on his popular podcast, First Fuel, to give an overview...
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Scaling High Rise Retrofits: Lessons Learned from North America’s Largest Passive House Retrofit
Toronto based architects and high-rise retrofit experts Graeme Stewart and Ya'el Santopinto share new learnings about deep energy retrofits in...
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An overview of the Certified Energy Manager (CEM) program and its impact
In this session, we will provide an overview of the CEM program, including some of the course components and highlights....
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Results of Canada’s First Energy Efficiency Auction
Hear about Ontario’s first-ever energy efficiency auction that is testing ways to increase energy efficiency’s contribution to grid reliability and...
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The Canada Infrastructure Bank’s Commercial Building Retrofit Initiative
The Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) will provide an overview of their Commercial Building Retrofit Initiative and how it will help...
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Efficiency Canada’s Codes4Climate: A Building Code Advocates Toolkit
The places we live, work, play, and gather are a critical piece of Canada’s transition to a net zero economy....
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The Climate Retrofit Mission
Exploring the scale of building retrofits required to confront the climate emergency and how a mission oriented innovation policy approach...
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Energy Foundations Report
On April 15th, Indigenous Clean Energy Social Enterprise (ICE), an organization advancing the clean energy leadership First Nations, Inuit, and...
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Reframing the Policy Discussion on Geothermal Heat Pump Systems: New Considerations
A recent study by Dunsky Energy Consulting highlights the unique benefits of ground source heat pump (GSHP) systems to the...
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A look at the University of Toronto’s Sustainability Plans to Decarbonize
This session will start with a brief overview of Sustainable Buildings Canada’s Summer Boot Camp for graduate students focusing on...
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Southern Ontario Green Jobs Fair
Are you looking to get started in the green economy? Join us to learn about possible jobs and the training...
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Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on your energy bill
Measurement & Verification can quantify – at a utility meter, site, or whole portfolio level – the impact on energy...
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Carbon Neutral Infrastructure: The Role of Energy Efficiency
In today’s DiscoverEE session we will look at the role energy efficiency plays in achieving carbon neutral infrastructure. Econoler will...
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Workforce 2030: A coalition accelerating workforce readiness for low-carbon buildings
Launched in 2020, Workforce 2030 is Canada’s first and only coalition supporting low-carbon workforce development across the building industry, unions...
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Workforce Needs for Energy Efficient Buildings
The building sector presents a unique opportunity to help Canada reach net-zero by 2050. To achieve this, the sector and...
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Becoming an Architect
Evelyne Bouchard founded Tandem Architecture Écologique to create sustainable energy-efficient projects and to promote architectural quality in rural areas.
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Energy Made Visible™ in Saint John, New Brunswick
MyHEAT collects large-scale thermal imagery of homes and uses it to map heat loss occurring from rooftops for entire cities....
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State and provincial carbon pricing and implications for energy efficiency
A discussion of joint Efficiency Canada and American Council for an Energy Efficiency Economy (ACEEE) report tracking carbon pricing policies...
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Exploring the interplay between policy and data on the path to zero carbon
This presentation will explore the interplay between policy and data in facilitating the design and effectiveness of climate interventions at...
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Rooftop solar in the Canadian context
Buildings are responsible for about 40% of the EU's energy consumption, and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions from energy. But...
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Becoming a Home Builder
Will Gonell is the principal of Gonell Homes Inc.- A Toronto-based custom home building and renovation company with a passion...
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The Next Generation of Natural Gas Heating
Join us to learn about the next generation of gas heating. Natural gas heat pumps have efficiencies that exceed the...
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Mitigation of Communicable Disease Spread while Managing and Enhancing Energy Efficiency
The current pandemic has forced buildings owner and operators to quickly implement strategies to improve indoor air quality and reduce...
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Energy Management 101: Foundational training for new and established Energy Efficiency professionals
Through this session, we’ll profile the new EMP 101 course, which was created to take people through an Energy Efficiency...
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Becoming a Carpenter
Andy Cockburn is a Red Seal General Carpenter and Certified Passive House Consultant, with a broad range of site and...
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The Art of Mentoring
Learn how the Toronto Community Benefits Network is supporting black, Indigenous and newcomer communities through their Nexgen Builder Mentorship program....
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2020: A year in review
Join executive director Corey Diamond as we take a stroll down memory land to look back at what happened in...
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Becoming an Energy Consultant
On Jamil’s way to becoming an senior technical resource at large consulting firms and running his own firm, he has...
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Using remote/virtual methods for home energy audits
EfficiencyOne (E1) is exploring the use of virtual home assessments for lead - generation in its whole - home energy...
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Becoming an HVAC Technician
Matt is a Certified Red Seal Refrigeration Mechanic and Class A Gas Fitter with 16 years of experience in the...
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Renewable Natural Gas: Fueling a Low Carbon Future
Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) will play a vital role as society pursues low carbon energy sources, greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction...
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A holistic approach to reducing energy use in Indigenous Nations
Delivering energy efficiency in Indigenous Nations requires holistic thinking that goes well beyond energy audits, rebates, and ECMs. Learn how...
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2020 Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard
Join us to learn about the 2020 Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard results and enter into discussion on what this means...
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Becoming a Community Energy Catalyst
Jordyn Burnouf is a Nehiyaw/Cree woman and member of the Black Lake Dene Nation in Treaty 8. Jordyn grew up...
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Generation Impact: Future Workforce Perspectives
As the national organization for human resources needs for the electricity sector, Electricity Human Resources Canada (EHRC) has to be...
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Using the Scorecard
The Provincial Energy Efficiency Scorecard is our flagship report. Turn it from data into action.
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Making Data Accessible for Science-Based Policy
Windfall Centre will demonstrate some new tools they have developed to analyze residential energy retrofits in southern Ontario.
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Quarterly Efficiency Canada Marketing & Communications Ally Call
A place for Efficiency Canada Allies to stay connected and discuss all things marketing and communications related.
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Demand-side solutions to avoid distribution upgrades from electric vehicles
Electric vehicles are a climate solution on the rise but their impacts on the electricity system will be important to...
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Becoming an electric vehicle advocate
Join us in October to learn more about a career in the exciting electric vehicle field – and the steps...
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The role of municipal financing programs in accelerating climate action
Right across Canada, municipalities are “stepping up their game” on climate action, by setting aggressive goals and by developing innovative...
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Diesel Plants, Ice Roads, and Sea Cans: Delivering Energy Efficiency in Remote Communities
From shipping via ice roads to working without cellular/Wi-Fi infrastructure to collaborating with Indigenous communities, this presentation will explore the...
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Retrofits: Not if, but how!
There is a lot of work to do if we intend to retrofit all of Canada’s homes and buildings by...
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Becoming a Policy Analyst
Join us in September to learn about Jérôme's path to becoming a policy advisor...
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The power of a region — Retrofit successes
Learn how a multi-year retrofit program in the Kootenay region of BC supported over 30 non-profit housing societies to implemented...
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Tiered energy codes best practices for code compliance
Discussing the evolution of energy codes, providing an overview of different compliance regimes, and providing recommendations to assist in the...
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Full disclosure — Industry leadership on building performance
Completing effective building energy efficiency retrofit projects in Canada is one of the most affordable ways to cut greenhouse (GHG)...
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The Evolution of Data-Driven Energy Efficiency Programs
Simptek, an energy data and analytics company, and Ecofitt, an energy efficiency program delivery company, will cover recent in-the-trenches examples...
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Women as levers of change for energy efficiency – How increased gender diversity can transform, innovate, and improve performance in the sector
Foreign Policy Analytics reported in March that companies with improved gender diversity on boards from 2013 through 2018 were 60 percent more likely than those...
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How to effectively communicate about climate change
Clean Foundation delivered a webinar on how best to communicate about climate change. This is not a workshop on climate...
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Efficiency Canada’s (un)professional networking series
With COVID-19 postponing or cancelling conferences across the country for the foreseeable future, there’s a need for new networking spaces...
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Will virtual audits become the new normal?
Learn how data science is opening new doors in the energy efficiency industry! Virtual audits are a popular and timely...
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The need for equity in energy efficiency programs
Newcomers to Canada and members of multi-lingual and multi-cultural communities face significant barriers accessing information and programming for energy efficiency....
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Engaging Limited Income Customers
How can energy efficiency companies help customers and each other through the current crisis? Oracle will shine a light on...
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Becoming an Energy Advisor
Thinking of becoming an energy advisor? This session will highlight what an energy advisor does, the skills needed for success,...
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Green Schools NS: Adapting Youth Engagement During COVID-19
Green Schools Nova Scotia provides energy efficiency and environmental education to over 30,000 P-12 students annually. Learn how the team...
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ASHRAE’s New Headquarters: Applying sustainable development principles in the Real World
ASHRAE is building its next global headquarters. The Society has acquired an existing 66,700 ft2 building, originally built in 1978,...
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How Alberta’s PACE program creates a triple win for municipalities: Local jobs, increased property values, and deeper energy savings
Alberta’s province-wide approach to building a PACE-style program stems from the Clean Energy Improvement Act naming Energy Efficiency Alberta as...
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Friday DiscoverEE Sessions
Discover-EE Session webinars will consist of a 20 minute presentation, followed by a 25 minute community discussion (Q&A) for a...
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A Renovation Wave for Europe – greening EU’s buildings, creating jobs, improving lives
Buildings are responsible for about 40% of the EU's energy consumption, and 36% of greenhouse gas emissions from energy. But...
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2020 Energy Efficiency Conferences
Check out our 2020 conference list for opportunities to stay up to date with developments in the field & network...
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Energy Efficiency Conferences 2019
The following are conferences taking place in 2019 all over North America – as well as a list of training...
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