TAF E-News Archive

TAF Newsletter: June 2025

6/2025 - This edition includes a new call-to-action to support green standards, an interview with Toronto Hydro on electrification, a powerful new report surveying tenants about extreme heat, a new job opening, and more.

TAF Newsletter: May 2025

5/2025 - This edition includes our reaction to Bill 17, an opportunity to incentivize home solar, and lessons from Quebec on EV readiness in multi-family buildings. Are you headed to Canada’s biggest retrofit event? Get your invite!

TAF Newsletter: April 2025

4/2025 - This edition includes our divestment from a major bank, a financial planning tool for condo retrofits, the red tape blocking climate action, and more.

TAF Newsletter: March 2025

3/2025 - This edition includes our federal climate policy recommendations to leverage local supplies and skills, regulatory priorities for a reliable power system in Ontario, financing for retrofit projects, and internship opportunities at TAF.

TAF Newsletter: February 2025

2/2025 - This edition includes housing and labour perspectives on BEPS, an update on green standards, exploring Toronto’s new carbon budget, and a partnership that drives social and financial returns.

TAF Newsletter: January 2025

1/2025 - This edition includes our green standards myth-buster, a transformational win for energy efficiency that will deliver billions in benefits and savings, insights on what’s next for EV charging, a new toolkit on embodied carbon, and more.

TAF Newsletter: December 2024

12/2024 - This edition includes our insights on Ontario’s energy planning, a new challenge of municipal authority, how Richmond Hill is rewarding green development, and a free app for measuring embodied carbon in construction.

TAF Newsletter: November 2024

11/2024 - This edition includes the 2023 GTHA Carbon Emissions Inventory launch, building greener faster with prefabricated overcladding, shaping a low-carbon energy future for Ontario, and a new job opportunity with TAF.

TAF Newsletter: October 2024

10/2024 - This edition includes extreme heat bylaw considerations, climate action progress in Hamilton, Toronto's economic development plan, a new app to measure embodied carbon in GTHA construction, and engagement on low-carbon district energy in Ontario.

TAF Newsletter: September 2024

9/2024 - This edition includes our team’s first geothermal heat pump project (with overcladding to boot!), our perspective on investing in demand-side management, energy policy reversal on gas plants, advancing building performance standards, and a new job opening at TAF.

TAF Newsletter: August 2024

8/2024 - This edition includes policy options for cities exploring maximum temperature bylaws, developer incentives for low-carbon construction, our 2025 federal budget recommendations, future-proofing Ontario’s grid with clean energy, and new opportunities at TAF.

TAF Newsletter: July 2024

7/2024 - This edition includes three launches - a deep retrofit project in North York, the latest Ontario emissions factors, and a building sector request for proposals - plus our final grants intake for 2024 and new team members.