What Does a Smart Energy Community Look Like?

What Does a Smart Energy Community Look Like?

QUEST hears the question all the time: what does a smart energy community actually look like? Thanks to communities across Canada which are increasingly implementing smart energy projects, in many ways it’s getting to be an easier question to answer. I can say, “just...
Creative Financing for Revitalizing Cities

Creative Financing for Revitalizing Cities

With Meeting of the Minds beginning tomorrow—and, in general, as the buzz around cities, energy and economic growth becomes louder—one sometimes wonders if we are speaking about the right things that we want to accomplish in our cities, and subsequently how to make...
Microfinancing: Alleviating Poverty Sustainably

Microfinancing: Alleviating Poverty Sustainably

Paul Hawken, in the book Ecology of Commerce, wrote: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor and you aren’t...