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Articles by Lisa Brodeur
The DIY energy crisis: Why businesses are being forced to manage energy alone, and what to do about it
The phone rings, but no one answers. A chatbot offers scripted replies. A portal delivers a string of charts that don’t explain why your energy bills jumped 40 per cent last quarter. You’re left to connect the dots, and carry the cost. The energy industry is pulling back support just as the need for it is reaching an all-time high. Over the past decade, energy has become one of the most volatile, fast-evolving industries in North America.
ESG in a downturn: Cutting costs without cutting strategy
As economic pressures increase and recession alerts return to the news, businesses are reevaluating their spending, tracking methods and the priorities that remain significant. ESG has now become a focal point. For numerous organizations, this presents a challenging realization: how can one defend long-term environmental commitments when immediate profit margins are under pressure?
Why energy budgeting is essential for energy control
In business, establishing annual budgets for sales and input costs is a fundamental practice. Organizations invest significant time and effort into this process, ensuring thorough review and validation so operations align with financial objectives. Monthly tracking identifies variances that trigger necessary corrective actions to achieve agreed-upon financial targets. Yet, one of the most critical operational input costs, energy, rarely undergoes this same rigorous budgeting and tracking process.
dcbel launches Capacity to aid transition to small-scale energy generation
Montreal-based dcbel Inc. has formed a new division, Capacity, to help grids manage an expected surge in distributed energy systems that generate and store renewable power in close proximity to the end user.
Driving sustainable change through group intelligence
A recent Project Management Institute webinar, Group Intelligence as a Systematic Approach to Change, centred around a fundamental question: why does organizational change often fail, and what actually works when it comes to implementing it sustainably? The session drew from The Hive Mind at Work, a book that reframes change management through the lens of collective action.
Bunzl's carbon calculator to help tackle delivery emissions
Products distributor Bunzl Canada Inc. wants to help its customers reduce the environmental impact of their deliveries by offering them a carbon calculator and advice on how they can take more efficient routes. Based in Burlington, Ont. with its headquarters in London, U.K., Bunzl provides supplies such disposable food packaging, cleaning and hygiene products and safety equipment to over 55,000 Canadian businesses.
B.C.'s Oakridge Park to feature 500 Hypercharge EV charging stations
The massive Vancouver redevelopment Oakridge Park is incorporating 500 Level 2 electric vehicle (EV) chargers which have been delivered by local firm Hypercharge Networks Corp. (HC-X). Vancouver-based Hypercharge has provided 300 wall-mounted, single-port chargers that will be placed in locations around the project where wall-mounted units can be accommodated. It has also shipped in 200 overhead single-port chargers designed to serve multiple parking stalls in its high-density valet parking area.
Low-carbon construction materials don't have to mean high costs: report
A home-building boom can be achieved with made-in-Canada, low-carbon materials that do not significantly raise construction costs, a report by Clean Energy Canada suggests. With millions of new homes needed to address the country’s housing shortage, the Vancouver-based think tank says the enormous amount of concrete, steel and drywall to supply the construction will come at a significant climate cost. But that can be offset with sustainably made materials for virtually the same cost.
For Lisa Brodeur, cutting carbon just makes good business sense
This is an emergency. We can do this but sometimes people cannot bring themselves to change even when the evidence is clear that it will benefit them or others. Humans are pretty good at pointing fingers and hoping other people will act. What gives you hope? We can do this. Entrepreneurs are up for the challenge and see that it is better to manage change than to have it manage us. The imperative of managing carbon is a huge opportunity. What worries you? I am the mother of three young children.
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