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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Electric delivery trucks are expensive to buy but much cheaper (and healthier and more comfortable) to operate, so financing is the key. 7Gen makes it possible by financing electric trucks and their charging system.
Want to decorate your home with character while reducing your logging footprint? Find out about reclaimed wood furniture from BeReclaimed, a small business with a shopfront at the Evergreen Brickworks.
What's wool got to do with climate change? Find out what's wrong with the move to synthetic clothing as a homegrown Ontario mill joins Dianne.
This month we feature a Toronto company that identifies water and heat-saving opportunities for older building stock through automation and pinpoint monitoring
Meet a Canadian clean tech company providing smart off-grid lighting from Bloor Street to urban Africa.
An electrolysis firm delivering fuel savings technologies to the global marketplace straight from west Toronto.
An Ontario firm is bringing high-quality, prefabricated homes to market with recycled materials and a reduced carbon footprint.
Meet a local firm that is recycling rare earth minerals to achieve circularity in the new green economy and ramp up Canadian manufacturing.
Tracking, managing, and reducing embodied carbon throughout the construction process.
A Toronto-based firm takes on the solar challenge: complete site survey, engineering and design solutions for solar projects of any scale.
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%.
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.
Where can you buy scientifically valid Canadian carbon removal credits? Canadian climate scientist Phil de Luna tells Dianne Saxe about Quebec-based Deep Sky.
The tables are turned as Toronto Mike'd interviews Dianne Save about exciting news in her life and how it impacts Green Economy Heroes.y
Carbon neutral craft beer with local ingredients and minimal packaging waste.
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.
Low-toxic, low-carbon plant-based foams to replace petroleum, starting with insoles.
Green economy law firm that advises green business and nonprofit clients, and provides public education on climate law. Plus psychedelics.
Pioneer of home and bodycare essentials in refillable, non-plastic, circular economy containers
How Mike's passion and perseverance built a $60 million solar energy cooperative.
How did Morgan Solar survive China's solar juggernaut, and stay Canadian?
Early stage funding so that breakthrough technology companies can grow through Canada's notorious valley of death.
A marketplace that stealthily grows greener, lower-emission freight while saving money for Canadian manufacturers
Why E-bikes are often a better solution than electric cars. Made in Canada too!
Turning trash into cash and good, cheap meals. The food waste elimination app that's growing explosively
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.
Main Street bike store selling bikes intended as transportation.
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.
How AI-enabled dashcams help municipalities cut costs and emissions in maintaining their roads
Biochar: real, long-term carbon sequestration plus soil regeneration
Prefab panels for carbon-storing, high performance buildings that go up in record time
How air, rock and water store electricity from wind and solar and clean our electricity grid.
After years of struggle, a Newfoundland startup becomes a star with smart thermostats for electric home heating
Making delicious, low-carbon, local craft beer with organic hops they grow themselves on their organic farm.
Making it easy for lots of people to fall in love with zipping around on an electric bike.
Performance-based financing of water and energy upgrades for older buildings, toilets paying for boilers.
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.
Allowing small cities to both cut costs and improve transit service with existing buses.
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