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Ecocity 2019 would like to thank the following companies for their generous support:
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ABT Permavoid Systems ABT Inc specializes in Stormwater Management Systems with an emphasis on Low Impact Development, Sustainability, Stormwater Re-use, Infiltration, Treatment and total water management for surface and sub-surface applications. We have multiple divisions specializing in Civil, Landscape Architecture, Tree Pits, Green/Blue Roofs, sportsfields, agricultural, and equine applications. (abtdrains.com) |
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British Columbia Institute of Technology | Booth # 13 Since 1964, the British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) has been training the innovators that shape BC’s green economy. We lead in building science, green roofs and living walls, and smart micro-grid technologies. With our unique, applied research and hands-on educational model, students gain the technical skill, real-world experience, and problem-solving ability needed to embrace a complex and rapidly changing world. Our curriculum is developed in close consultation with industry and delivered by instructors who are experts in their fields. With five campuses and over 50,000 students enrolled each year, BCIT is one of BC’s largest postsecondary institutions. (bcit.ca) |
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British Columbia Environment Industry Association The BCEIA is British Columbia’s most recognized and longest running professional business association focused on building strategic partnerships and offering a ‘strength in numbers’ approach with our like-minded membership. BCEIA members enjoy the ability to access various levels of government involved in our industry as well as international trade agencies doing business with British Columbia and Canada. Our conferences and events allow members to learn from high profile guest presenters and provide a forum that is focused on professional growth and information sharing in the environmental sector. You will be among the first to discover new government programs, with the opportunity to leverage new partners in the process. (bceia.com) |
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Canadian Wood Council - Wood WORKS! BC (wood-works.ca/bc) |
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Capilano University Climate change mitigation, Capilano University’s top environmental priority, is supported by Board Policies for energy and sustainability, and Provincial legislation. CapU participates in the Carbon Neutral Government Program, reporting on GHG emissions from building and fleet energy, fugitive gases and paper use. We off-set reported emissions annually and have been carbon neutral since 2010. Our energy management program, through conservation and efficiency, reduced our absolute GHG emission by 50% in 2015. We seek to replace our dominate source of emissions, natural gas (used for heating and domestic hot water), with renewable energy to achieve an 80% emissions reduction by 2050. (capilanou.ca) |
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Cascadia Windows Ltd. Cascadia Windows manufactures fiberglass windows, doors, and fiberglass cladding support systems, with uncompromising quality and physical performance. What does that mean? It means that when you explore one of our products for any specific reason – be it a sliding door with unsurpassed water penetration resistance, a commercial window with exceptional thermal performance, or a cladding support assembly that provides ASHRAE-compliance in the most cost effective manner available, you can count on every other aspect of the product being as equally top-performing as the characteristic that caught your attention first - no compromises. (cascadiawindows.com) |
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Ecocity Builders | Booth # 16 Ecocity Builders is a California nonprofit providing advocacy, consulting, and education in sustainable city planning and development. We are the keepers of the Ecocity World Summit conference series, where since 1990, the ecocity movement has gathered every other year. We oversee the Ecocity Framework and Standards, the guide to charting a city's journey from existing conditions to ecocity futures. Our flagship program, Urbinsight, has been piloted in seven countries. Lately we have added tools to assess and map a city’s Urban Metabolism and overall health in order to give citizens a bird’s eye view of urban resource flows. (ecocitybuilders.org) |
| Ecosafe Zero Waste Inc. (ecosafezerowaste.com) |
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Environmental Operators Certification Program (EOCP) The Environmental Operators Certification Program (EOCP) evolved from a voluntary initiative of a handful of dedicated wastewater treatment plant Operators in 1966. The EOCP was the first such organization in Canada, and now oversees the classification of thousands of water and wastewater facilities and systems, and the certification of more than 4,500 Operators, to enable the prudent management of water and wastewater across British Columbia and Yukon for more than 4.2 million people. (eocp.ca) |
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Langara College Langara College provides University, Career, and Continuing Studies education to more than 21,000 students annually. Langara is also known as snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓, which means 'house of teachings', a name given to it by the Musqueam people on whose unceded traditional territory the College is located. Our goal is to create more environmentally sound, socially just, and economically vibrant communities by:• Creating and strengthening programming that encompasses the cross-disciplinary nature of sustainability • Advocating for and modelling sustainable practices; • Building sustainable partnerships with employers, community partners, and alumni.We look forward to increasing environmental, financial, and social sustainability at Langara and beyond. (langara.ca) |
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New York Institute of Technology - Vancouver Campus The New York Institute of Technology - Vancouver (NYIT) offers a Master of Science in Energy Management, which is dedicated to providing students with the requisite skills they need to help address energy-related challenges around the world and become leaders in energy management technologies, policies and procedures. Students graduate ready to apply innovative energy management methodologies to help corporations, governments, and organizations meet their climate change commitments. (nyit.edu/vancouver) |
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Northeastern University Vancouver Founded in Boston in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and a world leader in experiential learning, with locations in Boston, Charlotte, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Toronto, and now Vancouver. We know that in a time of rapid technological change, you need to continue learning to keep up. Northeastern University in Vancouver is dedicated to delivering an education that’s industry-responsive, employer-aligned, and student-centered. Our master’s degree programs are offered in online and hybrid learning formats, making them flexible to your needs. (northeastern.edu/vancouver) |
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Passive House Canada Climate change is the challenge of our generation. With growing urgency to limit global warming, it’s essential we transform our buildings. Buildings consume up to 40 percent of global energy use and contribute up to 30 percent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings built to the Passive House (Passivhaus) standard consume up to 90 percent less heating and cooling energy than conventional buildings, are applicable to almost any building type and is the only internationally recognized, proven, science-based energy standard in construction. We make the International Passive House standard of building performance understood, achievable, and adopted across Canada through education, advocacy, events, and building projects. (passivehousecanada.com) |
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Royal Roads University At Royal Roads University, our contemporary environment and sustainability programs will help you develop opportunities in any landscape, and see your world differently. You’ll learn to understand the social, cultural, political, and economic elements of environmental health, and identify effective strategies to overcome the challenges of moving to a sustainable society. Today’s business and community leaders must be educated and inspired to take up the mantle of sustainability to transform tomorrow’s business and government policy. Our graduate and undergraduate programs will give you the depth and insight to lead and motivate others in developing a sustainable, environmentally sound society. (royalroads.ca) |
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SIGA SIGA is a leader in providing high performance building envelope products to the green building community. A family owned and operated Swiss company since 1966, SIGA has a vision of a world of zero energy loss buildings. (siga.swiss) |
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Stantec At Stantec, we believe sustainable design can defy expectations and propel our communities into the future. We’re helping clients realize the full potential of their projects in terms of life cycle cost, energy efficiency, carbon reduction, and human health and wellness. Informed by data and grounded in the market, we design to support human resilience, health, and wellness while delivering value through life-cycle cost analysis and reduction of energy and carbon use. (stantec.ca) |
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Stream Of Dreams Murals Society - Fish on Fences Stream of Dreams delivers award-winning Fish on Fences environmental education and community art programs that teach schoolchildren about local watersheds. Curriculum is tailored to each school’s waterways with grade-appropriate presentations and materials. The program encourages behaviour change to conserve and protect water by empowering youth and families to become environmental stewards. A beautiful Dreamfish fence mural is created with art painted by every child in each school as a legacy to permanently celebrate the watershed and lessons learned to protect it. Programming includes hands-on environmental projects to enhance habitat and support wildlife while guiding students through opportunities for outdoor learning. (streamofdreams.org) |
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Sustainability Solutions Group SSG is Canada's most experienced city climate change planning consultancy. SSG has completed hundreds of climate, energy, and emissions related plans for cities, provincial governments, and the federal government over the past 15 years, including some of the most innovative projects in North America. Recognizing that local governments are faced with multiple societal challenges, we are empowering policy, action development, and decision-making with fresh approaches, comprehensive data modelling, and engagement processes that support multiple community objectives, enhance democracy, and result in low-carbon, healthy, equitable cities for everyone. (ssg.coop) |
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UBC Master of Engineering Leadership The UBC Master of Engineering Leadership (MEL) degree is for practicing professionals who want to gain a competitive advantage. With its unique combination of graduate-level UBC Faculty of Applied Science courses and UBC Sauder School of Business courses, this hybrid professional master’s degree gives students the skills and confidence to take control of their future. Specialisations include; Clean Energy, High Performance Buildings, Urban Systems and Integrated Water Management. (mel.ubc.ca) |
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UBC Sustainability At UBC, our goal is to lead globally and locally in sustainability and wellbeing across our campuses and communities. UBC puts sustainability at the heart of teaching, learning and research, operations and infrastructure, and community. While we innovate in teaching and research, our campuses also serve as models for the cities of the future and we design and build some of the most sustainable infrastructure projects in the world. UBC is in a unique position to use our campuses as test beds for sustainability, and we share what we learn on campus through meaningful engagement activities with partners across our region, and with institutions around the world. (sustain.ubc.ca) |
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UN Habitat UN-Habitat works for a better urban future. Based in over 90 countries, we promote the development of socially and environmentally sustainable human settlements and strive for adequate shelter with better living standards for all. At UN-Habitat, we believe cities can solve many of the challenges our world faces. As a centre of excellence and innovation, we support countries and cities in taking advantage of the opportunities urbanization offers. Our high impact projects combine world-class expertise and local knowledge, and provide achievable, customizable and scalable solutions to the toughest urbanization problems. We want to ensure cities become inclusive and affordable drivers of economic growth, social development and environmental change. (un.org) |
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UVic MBA in Sustainable Innovation/Gustavson School of Business The UVic MBA in Sustainable Innovation, launching in September 2020, promises to transform business. It is designed for leaders like you who embrace responsibility for the future by integrating financial, environmental and human sustainability considerations in their decisions. We believe that business skills, applied responsibly, can change the world. By working together, thinking creatively, and marshalling technology, leaders of the future can deal with wicked problems in business and society. The UVic MBA in Sustainable Innovation will give you the business foundations you expect from an MBA with a uniquely 21st century focus on leadership, collaboration and creativity. (uvic.ca/mba) |
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