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Assunta Krehl

North America's Greenest Hotel - Business News Network: The Close - 0 views

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  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Sep 09
     
    A Toronto green entrepreneur is project managing the retrofit of an old building in Toronto into North America's greenest hotel, called Planet Traveller. BNN interviews Tom Rand, investor and project manager, Planet Traveller and Practice Lead for Cleantech at the MaRS Discovery District. Sept 11, 2009
  • Assunta Krehl on 14 Sep 09
     
    A Toronto green entrepreneur is project managing the retrofit of an old building in Toronto into North America's greenest hotel, called Planet Traveller. BNN interviews Tom Rand, investor and project manager, Planet Traveller. Sept 11, 2009
Assunta Krehl

Room for the Future - 0 views

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Tom Rand cleantech energy solar water Green or Green Wash

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  • 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.”
  • Assunta Krehl on 04 Aug 09
     
    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 on 04 Aug 09
     
    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.
Cathy Bogaart

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

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cleantech advisors tom rand green energy

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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!
Assunta Krehl

Want eco-friendly towers? Start by digging deep - The Globe and Mail - 0 views

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Cleantech Advisors Tom Rand

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  • Assunta Krehl on 09 Nov 09
     
    Four new luxury towers going up in downtown Toronto have missed the opportunity to tap into geothermal energy - and reduce their energy footprints accordingly. Tom Rand, the clean-tech adviser at MaRS (the non-profit innovation institute in Toronto's downtown hospital district) is the owner of the Planet Traveller eco-hotel soon to open just west of the MaRS complex, on College Street.Rand had grown cynical about the "greenwashing" of the hotel industry (properties trumpeting themselves as eco-friendly because they provide daily new towels and sheets only on request). He determined, instead, to create a low-carbon hostel for young travellers. Nov 6, 2009
Cathy Bogaart

Plucking 'low hanging fruit' on energy tree - with MaRS Advisor, Tom Rand - 0 views

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cleantech mars energy geothermal Toronto

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  • The groundswell of geothermal interest among builders, developers and individual homeowners all over the GTA is mainly because it's what "green" venture capitalist Tom Rand calls "low hanging fruit" on the energy tree – easy to pluck and very cheap in the long run.
  • It has special appeal in large-scale operations, something Rand covers in a book he is working on. "I didn't think it was possible to go 100 per cent renewable but the studies support it.''
  • He claims that "if you drill 10 kilometres down to the really high temperatures, you can make enough energy to supply the whole U.S. with between three and 30,000 times more energy than it needs."
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  • It might be said that the Planet Traveler hotel in Kensington Market, in which Rand is a partner, is a bit of a test case. Although it appeared initially that geothermal wouldn't be possible on such a tight city lot, Rand approached the city about using the lane behind the hotel to sink his geothermal pipes.
  • Cathy Bogaart on 08 May 09
     
    The groundswell of geothermal interest among builders, developers and individual homeowners all over the GTA is mainly because it's what "green" venture capitalist and MaRS Advisor Tom Rand calls "low hanging fruit" on the energy tree - easy to pluck and very cheap in the long run. Tom talks about the opportunities available to enterprising, innovative businesses.
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