The Latest in Cleantech
Cleantech in 2020 and into 2021: The New Reality of Sustainability
2020 will be a year to remember for generations to come, most obviously because of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This caused widespread human suffering that is not limited to the lives lost to the virus, but also encompasses the quantum change in how we live our...
Joining Alacrity Canada as the Cleantech Program’s First Intern
My name is Mary Elebijo. I am the first intern on the Cleantech team at Alacrity Canada and I like to say it proudly as it is an honour to be one. As a major component of my Master’s education at the University of Victoria, Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, I...
Monitoring the Oceans and Coastlines with Ocean Diagnostics and MarineLabs
In season two, episode five of Cleantech Talks, host and Alacrity Canada senior advisor Peter Van Der Gracht talks to Dean Wenham, CEO of Ocean Diagnostics, and Scott Beatty, CEO of MarineLabs, about their companies and how their technologies are used to monitor our...
How Plugzio and Audette Use Energy Consumption and Efficiency to Power Their Platforms
In season two, episode four of Cleantech Talks, host and Alacrity Canada senior advisor Peter Van Der Gracht talks to Mohammad Akhlaghi, CEO of Plugzio, and Christopher Naismith, CEO of Audette, about their companies and how they use energy consumption data to build...
Origen Air Tackles Indoor Air Quality
In season two, episode three of Cleantech Talks, host and Alacrity Canada senior advisor Peter Van Der Gracht talks to Susan Blanchet (CEO) and Andrew Crawford (CTO) at Origen Air about their clean technology company, how their technology works to improve indoor air...
Investing in the Cleantech Sector
In season two, episode two of Cleantech Talks, host and Alacrity Canada senior advisor Peter Van Der Gracht talks to Sarah Applebaum, Partner at Pangaea Ventures, and Kathryn Wortsman, Managing Partner at Amplify Capital, about investing in the cleantech sector and...
Women in Cleantech: A Day in the Life of Three CEOs
Welcome to season two of Cleantech Talk with Alacrity Canada! In this first episode of the new season, Julie Angus talks to Melanie McClare, CEO of Swirltex, and Susan Blanchet, CEO of Origen Air and Origen Clean, about what it's like to be a woman and leader in the...
Owen Matthews on the Alacrity Approach to Clean Tech
What does clean tech mean to me? I think the most important thing to recognize about the clean tech industry is that it isn't an industry at all. It's an approach that covers many industries. The energy sector, dominated by oil and gas, can employ clean tech to...
Vertical Farming, Agriculture for the Future
What Challenges Face Global Food Systems? The global food system faces challenges to feed the rapidly growing world population. According to the United Nations' 2015 world population report, the current population of the world (7.3 billion) is expected to reach 9.7...
The Governments of Canada and British Columbia Invest Nearly $3M in the Alacrity Cleantech Program
On September 16th, 2020, Alacrity Canada was pleased to host a virtual event with The Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Economic Development and Official Languages, and Minister responsible for Western Economic Diversification Canada, and representatives from the...
Interview with Dr. Joel Rogers of Progressive Fusion Solutions
Our latest podcast series is called “Cleantech Talk”, focusing on the growing cleantech sector. We’ll be talking to CEOs of cleantech startups, as well as advisors and investors, to find out how this exciting space is developing. In this episode, we're talking to Dr....
Interview with Sean Bourquin of First Light Technologies
Our latest podcast series is called “Cleantech Talk”, focusing on the growing cleantech sector. We’ll be talking to CEOs of cleantech startups, as well as advisors and investors, to find out how this exciting space is developing. In this episode, Sean Bourquin, CEO of...
