Dianne Saxe's Green Economy Heroes Podcast: Recent Episodes
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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.
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.
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
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.
Pioneer of home and bodycare essentials in refillable, non-plastic, circular economy containers
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
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.
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
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.
Fast growing pioneer in sustainable investing for investors, sustainable operations for companies.
Canada’s first integrated solar microgrid displacing diesel in a remote community, environmental justice as part of reconciliation.
From a standing start to one of the world’s top cleantech companies in less than 5 years.
Renewable energy, transformation, and reconciliation, especially for remote indigenous communities.
Fascinating jobs for hemp residues, including soil reclamation and creating stronger paper and non-plastic packaging.
Awards that celebrate sustainability heroes, to accelerate collaboration towards a job-rich, cleaner, healthier, innovation based low-carbon economy.
How a better electric vehicle transmission, invented in Canada, makes electric cars lighter, faster, cheaper, and longer range.
Designing, manufacturing and selling zero carbon, zero waste office chairs of pure, reusable materials.
Engineering and finance to slash the carbon footprint of existing buildings, such as schools.
Being able to SEE where heat is escaping from your house motivates action when talk doesn’t. When will our utility pay for the pictures?
Tiny, portable, energy efficient, beehive-shaped hydroponic units for growing vegetables anywhere.
Methane destruction: reducing climate damage and air pollution for $2 / tonne. Why do Canada's regulations lag behind Mexico's?
How a clothing firm slashes its carbon footprint and works to preserve our home planet.
Coming soon: the world's cheapest liquid transportation fuel, made from construction waste.
Indigenous-led green energy and efficiency social enterprise as a path to social healing and lower costs.
Funding clean water in Africa by saving clients energy, water, resources and money here.
How a former municipal utility is becoming a giant in cleaner heating and cooling for many buildings.
How Victoria Harbour used a 15-year contract to get a net-zero bus system for cruise passengers.
Workers' cooperative consulting firm that helps create decarbonized, equitable, healthy cities for everyone.
Plug'n'Drive stokes public passion for driving electric vehicles, often by letting people try one.
Early stage funding so that breakthrough technology companies can grow through Canada's notorious valley of death.
Brandon explains his passion for turning food waste into low-carbon fertilizer, electricity and natural gas.
How Tim became a busy financial planner, helping people put their money where their heart is.
Alex's cleantech startup uses solar catalysts invented in Toronto to turn methane and CO2 into a fundamental building block of modern chemistry.
Richard tells Dianne about his new London subdivision. It is medium-density, solar-powered, fossil-free and sells shoes in the pub.
How can local business hubs grow tomorrow’s environmental champions? Priyanka chats about Green Economy Canada and the little businesses that could.
Akhil tells Dianne how Green Story helps green brands grow through the right consumer information, at the right time.
Stephanie tells Dianne how REfficient finds second lives for used and surplus equipment, allowing smaller telecom companies to compete.
Award-winning farmer, Bryan Gilvesy, tells us how planting native tall grass prairie has restored endangered birds and transformed his cattle ranch.
A billion business decisions are made in Canada every day, rarely with the climate crisis in mind. Can HP change that?
Dianne Saxe speaks with architect Paul Dowsett, founder of Sustainable, on his passion for better living in plant-based, energy-efficient homes.