Program update: What's stopping us from making the residential sector totally green

Feb 5, 2009

Program update: What's stopping us from making the residential sector totally green

Here's a program update to our February 23 workshop at U of Ottawa Telfer School, as of Friday, February 6 2009.

We have reached 75% of our registration objective. So hurry, space is limited.

Some of our presenters and resource persons as of today:

Hugh MacLeod, Associate Deputy Minister to the Premier of Ontario: Climate Change
Peter Love, Chief Energy Conservation Officer,Conservation Bureau, Ontario Power Authority
Ralph Torrie, Navigant Consulting
David Foster, Director of Environmental Affairs,Canadian Home Builders’ Association
Gordon Shields, Executive Director,Net-Zero Energy Home Coalition
Dana Silk, General Manager, Envirocentre, Ottawa
Chris Higgins, Coordinator, LEEDR Canada for Homes, Canada Green Building Council
Bob Linney, Canadian Real Estate Association
Tom Green, project manager, EQuilibrium™ Housing, CMHC
Representatives from City of Ottawa, Ville de Gatineau

Preliminary results from the Telfer School research project
on barriers to innovation and change

For program background, click here

For registration, click here

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Our project: Making it happen - the transition to a sustainable society

This blog is a continuation of a project at the University of Ottawa Telfer School of Management dealing with innovation, public policy, and climate change. We are not developing another vision for a sustainable society. We want to focus on the implementation and the barriers to change and innovation, hence the title "Making it happen". (See Post “The start of a new project”)

We have divided the project into two broad steps. The first step is to review various sustainable visions for regions. See our following Posts:
Setting sustainability and environmental targets (1): Recent announcements on GHG emissions
Setting sustainability and environmental targets (2): the dimensions of sustainability
and
Setting sustainability and environmental targets (3): Ottawa’s “Choosing our future”

The next broad set of activities is to parse out what needs to happen if we are to achieve these visions and identify the barriers - institutional, social, behavioural - to make the change happen, i.e. “What’s stopping us from becoming a sustainable society?”

The intent is to design improved policy interventions.

So, in addition to continue looking at sustainable visions, our posts have examined through past examples and case studies how various technologies and changes are implemented. And we will look at barriers and obstacles.

We invite you to share your experiences with the difficulties of implementing new technologies and changes to address the challenge of climate change, and how these can be overcome. Post a comment!

Our Team

ANDRE POTWOROWSKI is an adjunct professor at the Telfer School of Managemnent at the University of Ottawa, and a management consultant in environmental research management, innovation, and environmental policies. He has been working in the environment field since the mid-70s, when he was part of the original Conserver Society study at the Science Council of Canada. He is president of TMA Technology Management Associates, and Managing Partner, Science and Technology of the Professional Development Institute

TOM BRZUSTOWSKI, Chair of our Advisory Board during the project, was the RBC Chair in Innovation and Technology Commercialization at the Telfer School, and is the past President of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. He authored a book on productivity and innovation, "The Way Ahead: Meeting Canada's Productivity Challenge", and more recently "Why we need more INNOVATION IN CANADA: and what we must do to get it."

Making it happen - the transition to a sustainable society

Feb 5, 2009