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A throne speech worthy of the next generation
If we asked a child of the next generation to look back at vintage footage of Canada’s 2020 throne speech, from the era of pandemic and wildfires, what would they…
Three things no one is telling you about the business case for retrofits
Open up your spreadsheets, it’s time for some fun with business case analysis. Consider the building owner of a high-rise apartment looking for ways to save money to pay for…
The uncomfortable path to climate action scale-up
With less than a decade left to stem the worst global climate impacts, we need to think critically about getting proven climate actions to scale, rather than languishing in the…
Toronto has an embarrassing gas problem
…and organizations mobilized to support the motion with deputations and written submissions (see TAF’s here), yet debate and decision was postponed to “a later date” based on requests for more…
Removing the upfront cost of retrofits
By Tim Stoate, VP of Impact Investing at TAF and Matt Zipchen, President of Efficiency Capital New York City’s new law limiting carbon emissions in large buildings and an innovative…
Budget 2021 is a healthy dose for the clean economy, but climate measures lack potency
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland just announced $101.4 billion in new spending. It’s a stimulus budget with measures to quell the impacts of the pandemic as well as investment in Canada’s…
New strategies for navigating the net zero river delta
…outcome, but rather cultivate new relationships, build individual and organizational capacity, and strengthen grassroots leadership. If we only use our traditional approaches to evaluate this work, it won’t get funded….
Ontarioโs repeated failure to produce a natural gas conservation plan
If you pay attention to natural gas conservation in Ontario, you may feel stuck in Groundhog Day. Progress on this file just stalled again after three years of bureaucratic inertia….
Deep Retrofit Diary: A New Kind of Project Delivery
One new concept is completely changing the way we do retrofits at TAF. When I first joined our retrofit team three years ago, we had already designed and implemented energy…
Financing Building Retrofits
…energy savings until the investment (plus a modest return) is repaid, usually over an eight- to 10-year-period. Retrofit Accelerator TAF also demonstrates the technical and financial viability of deep energy…
YWCA Hamilton raises the bar to build amazing affordable housing
…so much more. Designed to Passive House standards, the Putnam Family YWCA shows what’s possible when resident health, comfort, and the climate are put first. It provides 50 affordable housing…