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Assunta Krehl

Ontario Creating A Clean Energy Institute - Ontario MInistry of Energy - June 8, 2012 - 0 views

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    Ontario in partnership with MaRS Discovery District has launched the Clean Energy Institute which will bring together industry leaders and utility companies to build on Ontario's strengths in smart grid technologies and other clean energy innovations. In addition, the institute will help support and expand domestic and international business opportunities and position Ontario to capitalize on a $250 billion clean energy industry.
Assunta Krehl

Energy minister hedges on new nuclear plant - The Star - June 8, 2012 - 0 views

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    Honorable Chris Bentley, Ontario Minister of Energy, spoke at the Future of Energy event at the MaRS Centre and announced that the province will provide "$500,000 over two years in seed funding for a new Clean Energy Institute at MaRS."
Assunta Krehl

An evening of constructive dialogue on the economy, energy and the environment E3 - Cor... - 0 views

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    E(3) Canadian Roundtables will take place May 26, 2010. The event will feature a panel of thought leaders sharing their vision for a sustainable energy future for Canada. Tom Rand, Cleantech Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District will be speaking at the event.
Assunta Krehl

Clean energy comes to the coffee table - Clean Break - 0 views

  • Is green, renewable energy a sexy enough topic to be the centrepiece of a coffee table book? Tom Rand, who leads cleantech development at Toronto’s MaRS Centre, believes so
  • a book that will expose a broader section of the population to the issues, technologies and opportunities around renewable energy. Rand has written a soon-to-be-released book called Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies To Save Their World.
  • This is an accessible package, cleverly assembled and pleasant to look at, while at the same time making it enjoyable to learn about the technologies that, while seemingly “alternative” or “new” today, are destined to become a dominant and permanent way of energizing future generations and the economies that support them.
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  • The plan is to distribute it through mainstream outlets such as Starbucks to coincide with the big climate-change conference coming up in December in Copenhagen. It will be released in October.
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    Tom Rand, MaRS Practice Lead in Cleantech, will be releasing his book called Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies To Save Their World in October 2009. This book will expose the broader population to the issues, technologies and opportunities around renewable energy.
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    Tom Rand, MaRS Practice Lead in Cleantech, will be releasing his book called Kick The Fossil Fuel Habit: 10 Clean Technologies To Save Their World in October 2009. This book will expose the broader population to the issues, technologies and opportunities around renewable energy. Aug 30, 2009
Assunta Krehl

"Privacy by Design in the Age of Big Data" Report Addresses How Big Data & Privacy Can ... - 0 views

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    "Dr. Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada and IBM Chief Scientist and Fellow Jonas Release a report on how organizations should act now to address the privacy risks associated with Big Data, and the analytics technologies used to make sense of these vast data sets, before such risks become realities." The report was shared at the Future of Energy Summit that was held at the MaRS Centre.
Assunta Krehl

Ontario on course for a greener future - People and Planet Net - 0 views

  • Tom Rand, who leads an advisory service for companies wishing to develop a stake in clean technology, at the non-profit MaRS headquarters in downtown Toronto, agrees on the importance of this ‘right to connect’
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    Canada is seriously committed to phasing out all coal-fired electricity generation within five years and to becoming North America's leading green jurisdiction. To help to do this Ontario has passed a Green Energy Act with strong incentives . Tom Rand, who leads an advisory service for companies wishing to develop a stake in clean technology, at the non-profit MaRS headquarters in downtown Toronto, agrees on the importance of this 'right to connect'.
Assunta Krehl

Room for the Future - 0 views

  • 2009 Cleantech Issue
  • exclusive look at the continent’s greenest hotel: The Planet Traveler Hotel in Kensignton Market, Toronto.
  • The big talk by the cleantech lead at the MaRS Discovery District, and the man behind VCi Greenfunds and Green Bonds, is backed by bigger action. Rand’s latest project is what he claims to be “the continent’s greenest hotel”, which Corporate Knights first told you about in October 2008.
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  • Speaking to a full house at Toronto's MaRS Centre on July 9, 2009, Tom Rand explains why he has decided to focus on buildings in his approach to climate change. “Buildings are responsible in our large urban centres for between a half and three quarters of our carbon emissions. That’s a huge part of our footprint,” he says. “In terms of climate change, buildings are the lowest hanging fruit, as far as I can tell.”
  • Tom Rand’s talk Green or Green Wash? Lessons from Building North America’s Greenest Hotel in Toronto
  • According to Tom Rand, if you’re not talking low carbon, you’re greenwashing.
  • Tom Rand believes any building can and should achieve in the immediate future using sustainable technologies that already exist.  Moreover, he claims to have found a magic bullet, alleging that these carbon cuts can be made without spending a dime.
  • and has come a long way since then, transforming the Planet Traveler hostel into a kind of cleantech gallery. Utilizing solar-voltaic and solar-thermal heating, geo-exchange, 100% LED lighting, and a wastewater heat re-capturing unit called the Powerpipe, it boasts a rich collection of renewables. It also seeks to educate. The geo-exchanger and Powerpipe are featured behind a glass wall in the basement, and the rooftop mezzanine bar offers a full view of the solar panels in the foreground of Toronto’s skyline.
  • Rand had to look to an adjacent alley to bury the pipe.
  • Rand, a carbon tax, widespread education campaigns, and third party support for green infrastructure via green bonds or a geo-utility are sure-fire ways “to build a cleantech economy in Canada without spending a dime.”
  • If any country wants to participate in the next economic revolution they had better start dealing with clean-tech and they had better start dealing with it quickly.”
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    An exclusive look at the continent's greenest hotel: The Planet Traveler Hotel in Kensignton Market, Toronto. Tom Rand talks about Cleantech and the lessons he has learned from Building North America's Greenest Hotel in Toronto
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    An exclusive look at the continent's greenest hotel: The Planet Traveler Hotel in Kensignton Market, Toronto. Tom Rand talks about Cleantech and the lessons he has learned from Building North America's Greenest Hotel in Toronto.
Assunta Krehl

Green elites meet the people - National Post - May 29, 2010 - 0 views

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    E(3) Canadian Roundtables took place May 26, 2010. The event featured a panel of thought leaders sharing their vision for a sustainable energy future for Canada. Tom Rand, Cleantech Advisor at the MaRS Discovery District spoke at the event.
George Botos

Deal Suggests Bright Solar Future In China : NPR - 0 views

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    The Chinese government has pledged that 15 percent of its energy will come from renewable sources by 2020. To that end, China announced a contract with California's eSolar to build one of the biggest solar plants in history. Bill Gross, CEO of eSolar, discusses the project.
Cathy Bogaart

Planet Traveler: Green & Clean in the Heart of the City - Toronto Is Awesome, July 25, ... - 0 views

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    Planet Traveler is a Toronto-based cleantech innovation - backed by our own cleantech advisor, Tom Rand. Find out about the innovations that make this hotel the carbon-saving destination of the future!
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