Journey to Sustainability: The Role of Government in Funding Transit

Journey to Sustainability: The Role of Government in Funding Transit

Without new funding, public transit systems won’t be able to improve the quality of their service. So what are the next steps?

Over the past two years, public transit agencies have grappled with plummeting ridership and revenue. Although transit systems are slowly inching back to normal, more support is needed from federal and provincial governments to improve their finances. Without new funding, public transit systems won’t be able to improve the quality of their service, the affordability of their fares, or the viability of greener transportation modes.

In this Brown Bag Lunch, we’ll discuss what steps have been taken to improve how transit is funded in Canada, and further explore what governments can do to make transit more sustainable in the long run.

Matthew Pelletier is a Data and Research Officer with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities – the national voice for Canada’s cities, towns, and rural municipalities. At FCM, Matt supports research on municipal finance, public transit, and infrastructure funding. He is originally from Ottawa but has been living on PEI for the past two years. He is passionate about climate change, public transit, and housing affordability.

Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

  • A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
  • This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

SHIFT Lausanne: Écosystèmes alimentaires circulaires

SHIFT Lausanne: Écosystèmes alimentaires circulaires

Journée de l’écosystème alimentaire vaudois qui repense radicalement son rapport à ce qui nous fait vivre: notre sol et ce qu’il produit.

De la patate au papet et retour : bouclons la boucle

Quand on parle de boucle, on ne pense pas qu’à celle de la saucisse au chou, mais tout l’écosystème alimentaire vaudois, de la ferme la table. Des vaudois et des vaudoises en pleine santé implique une économie, une société et surtout de la nourriture saine. C’est pour cela que nous voulons être hôte d’un espace de discussion, d’innovation et d’implication pour tout l’écosystème alimentaire vaudois afin de repenser radicalement notre rapport à ce qui nous fait vivre : notre sol et ce qu’il produit.

Ceci n’est pas une conférence où la parole ne sera donnée qu’à des experts, mais un espace d’échange et d’expérimentation ouverte où les participant.e.s seront responsable du contenu et de ce qu’il en ressort. Pour ce faire, nous avons mis notre plat cantonal l’honneur autour duquel tout tournera : le papet vaudois.

Les discussions se dérouleront autour de 5 thèmes clés :

1. LA NOURRITURE, comment elle est produite, acheminée, transformée et consommée.

2. LE SAVOIR, des low techs aux new techs, des Incas à l’EPFL

3. LES RESSOURCES, ou l’impact du sol, de l’eau, de l’énergie, de l’argent et de la politique sur ce que nous mangeons.

4. LA COLLECTIVITÉ, qui avons-nous envie d’inviter table ? Qui met les mains dans la terre ?

5. LE RYTHME, à table ou sur le pouce, croissance exponentielle ou rythmes naturels, quelle rythme pour notre vie ?

Au-delà de l’espace d’échange et de discussion central, il y aura de la place pour :

Se reposer – Regagner de l’énergie – Apprendre plus – Échanger et tisser des liens – Déguster une de nos reinterprétations du papet vaudois

Pourquoi et pour qui ?

Nous le sentons tou.te.s : notre système alimentaire est en train de changer drastiquement. Il devient la fois plus local et plus sain, mais aussi plus numérisé et rapide, tout en mettant de plus en plus de pression sur la biodiversité. Le savoir-faire oublié reprend les devants de la scène et se combine aux innovations de pointe pour faire face aux problèmes environnementaux et climatiques. De nouveaux modèles commerciaux circulaires sont en train d’émerger et de modifier profondément notre rapport à la nourriture. Pourtant une chose reste inchangée : la magie rassembleuse de la cuisine quotidienne, de boire et manger !

Lors de cette journée, tu :

Exploreras les défis actuels, les questions clées, les solutions potentielles et ce qui est déjà mis en pratique

Participeras des discussions et des échanges entre entrepreneur.se.s animés par des experts qui donneront lieu des recommandations concrètes échangeras et tisseras des liens avec des parties prenantes du secteur tout en faisant l’expérience de la circularité au sein d’un microcosme

Contribueras  à définir des engagements précis pour rendre l’écosystème agroalimentaire vaudois plus humain, juste et durable.

C’est pourquoi nous créons un événement qui ne parle pas simplement de ces problèmatiques mais qui est un exemple concret, du design à l’organisation, de l’écosystème agroalimentaire que nous souhaitons pour le futur. Nous voulons réunir des personnes, des entreprises et des compétences issues d’univers différents. Nous voulons combler des fossés et mobiliser l’intelligence collective en incluant tous les secteurs qui ont une influence sur notre manière de manger.

Paysan.ne, chercheur.se, politicien.ne, entrepreneur.se, musicien.ne… si tu te sens appelé.e, tu es de la partie.

Prix et inscription

Nous voulons un événement aussi divers que possible avec les bonnes personnes, pas seulement celles qui peuvent se le payer. C’est pour cela que l’événement n’a pas de prix fixe, mais un prix conseillé : 180.– par personne. Si tu peux mettre moins, ta participation est plus importante, si tu peux mettre plus, tu nous aide inclure plus de monde !

Inscriptions ici sur eventbrite

Programme détaillée

08:00 Ouverture des portes et café

09:00 Début de l’événement

09:30 – 12:00 Groupes de discussions entre professionnels

12:00 – 13:00 Dégustation des reinterprétations du papet

dès 13h00 Ouverture de l’événement au public

13:00 – 16:30 Continuation des groupes de discussion

16:30 – 17:30 Recommandations, engagements et prochains pas

17:30 Apéro zéro déchet

Accelerating Local Entrepreneurship

Accelerating Local Entrepreneurship

Join us for a chat on how to support local and underrepresented entrepreneurs, and connect with new businesses

Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic entrepreneurs have been historically excluded from society and creating their own income streams, and local entrepreneurs and getting less and less support from authorities and governments. Join us to discuss the systematic barriers that these entrepreneurs face, and discuss and learn ways in which business support organisations, authorities, financial institutions, and allies can support these entrepreneurs, and the steps we can take as a community to support healthy and diverse entrepreneurship.

The event will include a panel of experts that will share their experiences and actions that can be taken, followed by a market with local businesses founded by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic entrepreneurs from Impact Hub King’s Cross’ New Roots programme.

New Roots is a programme run by Impact Hub King’s Cross and Impact Hub in partnership with GoDaddy to support Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic entrepreneurs to start their businesses through mentoring and workshops. We’ve supported 90+ entrepreneurs to learn business skills and launch their businesses.

Panelists:

  • TBA

Market sellers:

  • TBA
Process Matters: Strategic Planning That Works For You

Process Matters: Strategic Planning That Works For You

Strategic planning is critical to an organization’s success and traditional approaches just aren’t good enough.

Strategic planning is critical to an organization’s success, but in a constantly changing environment, traditional approaches just aren’t good enough. Before investing time, money, and energy on a formal strategic plan, it’s important to ask key questions about the kind of planning process that makes the most sense for your organization today. There are many options to consider. Let’s talk about them!

Monica Chohan works with people and organizations across Canada. As Founder and Principal Consultant at Wilbrod House Consulting, she pursues her love of facilitation, strategic planning, and good governance through varied projects with awesome people. Monica also provides legal services and conducts workplace investigations through Chohan Law. Originally from Calgary and now based in Ottawa,

Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

  • A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
  • This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

Centring Equity & Justice in Program Design

Centring Equity & Justice in Program Design

Explore how to cultivate more equitable spaces for reflection, relationship building, and action

Every year, CKX’s Cohort X holds space for 4-6 leaders working at the intersections of gender and climate justice. Drawing from their experience in designing and running this unique program, the team behind Cohort X will share strategies for cultivating equitable spaces that help leaders to tackle complex, intersecting challenges.

Learn how cohort-based programming can challenge traditional models of organizing for action, and leave with experience-backed strategies to help you centre co-creation, reciprocal relationships, and reflection in service of those at the forefront of transformative action.

Juhi Sohani is a community organizer and digital communications specialist with a special focus on the impacts of capitalism and colonialism on climate justice. Her passion for movement-building was seeded by inherent collectivist principles in her Pakistani upbringing and the class struggle that affects us all.

Yas Hassen is a community organizer rooted in decolonial approaches to community engagement. They are interested in bridging the gaps and finding the intersections between Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, anti-racism, belonging and community, anti-poverty, and climate justice in pursuit of just futures.

Community Knowledge Exchange (CKX) is a social change agency that aspires to make shift happen in the pursuit of just futures, fundamental and healing change that challenges longstanding and entrenched paradigms.

This is one of four in a series of workshops on Stories, Skills, and Mindsets for Collaboration, made possible with the support of Employment and Social Development Canada’s SDG Programme.

Join us this February to hear from three inspiring leaders about the innovative strategies they’re using to support inclusive collaboration as they strive for social and climate justice in their communities.

More events in this series:

Brown Bag Lunches are Impact Hub Ottawa’s weekly lunch & learns led by Hubbers, for members and non-members alike. Topics vary each week, but you’re always sure to learn something new!

Please note:

  • A link to register via Zoom will be provided once you sign up on Eventbrite
  • This event will be recorded and shared with Impact Hub Ottawa members and all who register

Tickets: In an effort to make this event as accessible as possible and to remove cost as a barrier to participating, we’re offering a tiered pricing system including a fully subsidized option. Upon checkout, please select the option that best suits your needs – no questions asked.

Consider becoming an Impact Hub Ottawa Virtual Member. This gives you access to our team of Coaches, community Slack, and all kinds of perks and resources to help you grow your business or career!

Looking for a home away from home? Perhaps a coworking membership is for you. Find out more here. Note that our opening hours may be affected by current COVID-19 restrictions. Please check with us if you have any questions about visiting our space.

Open Project Night: Reducing Social, Economic and Political Inequalities

How can we empower and promote the social, economic & political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, or ethnicity?

Impact Hub Houston is proud to bring you a monthly opportunity to come together to work on solutions for some of Houston’s most pressing issues. Our city is full of changemakers across all ages, cultures, skillsets, and industries. This is your chance to conned and collaborate for the greater good.

Open Project Night has been hosted across the Impact Hub global network for a few years, and we are carrying the torch locally to support #Changemakers, #SocialEntrepreneurs, and #ImpactSupporters in their efforts to create the change they wish to see in the world.

Here’s how it works:

  • New theme each month in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • Anyone can sign up to participate (whether you have an idea/project or just want to provide feedback, advice, or support)
  • 1-2 guest speakers will kick-off project presentations
  • Open Mic for anyone else to pitch will follow (2 min max per pitch)
  • Everyone moves to the virtual working room for open networking & collaboration

September’s theme is SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities

SDG 10 from a global context: https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal10

Event Schedule // 5:00 PM-6:30 PM CST

5:00-5:30pm Open Networking

5:30-5:55pm Project Presentations + Q&A

Your Open Pitch should be max of 2 mins each and answer the following questions before the community can provide feedback:

  1. Brief personal introduction + What is your project/idea?
  2. What stage are you currently at? (idea/testing/implementation etc)
  3. What are your next series of steps?
  4. What are you currently looking for in the way of talent/skills from the community?

5:55-6:25pm Move over to the Working Floor to connect and collaborate with other changemakers.

6:25pm-6:30pm Closing and Next Steps

About our Guest Speaker: (TBA)

Starting With Benefit At the Core

Join our workshop to learn more about how to build a business starting with benefit at the core.

Why start a brand new enterprise as a benefit LLC?

How can virtual tools tell sustainability stories?

What lessons from managing large events at convention centers help all businesses boost their triple bottom line?

How can partnerships be leveraged to accelerate attainment of UN 2030 goals for society and the planet?

Chance Thompson will answer these questions, share his personal journey as a leading sustainability professional, and help attendees build their very own “sustainability alter-ego” character in this fifth installment of the 2021 P3 Utah Impact Hub Salt Lake Benefit Company Webinar Series.

Chance Thompson, CEO

Viridescent, BLLC

Chance Thompson was recently recognized as a global leader in sustainable events management, leading his team at the Salt Place Convention Center to the 2019 Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility Pacesetter Award by the Events Industry Council and the international IMEX-EIC Innovation in Sustainability Award recognizing the Salt Palace Convention Center and the Mountain America Expo Center presented in Frankfurt, Germany. In his work at the Salt Palace, Chance guided a 35-member and five-organization Green Team committee dedicated to sustainable event management.

As Senior Manager of Sustainability and Public Relations, he and his colleagues achieved concurrent APEX/ASTM Level 1 certifications for sustainable practices from the Events Industry Council. This collaborative effort is the first of its kind in the events industry, with Salt Lake holding more certifications than any other place in the world. Globally, Chance just concluded a two-year term as a member of the Events Industry Council Sustainability Committee, which strives to be the authoritative resource on green-friendly event planning. In addition, he is a Committee Chair for the APEX/ASTM Sustainable Event Standards Relaunch effort, which is striving to bring the standards to more planners and suppliers in the industry.

Locally, Chance has served as a member of the Utah Recycling Alliance board of directors. In Utah, he has developed dozens of relationships with school districts, non-profits, religious organizations and businesses to provide them useful materials that can either be repurposed or sold. This effort has kept over 300,000 pounds of materials out of the landfill.

MEET THE SPEAKER!

Chance Thompson, Co-Founder/The Designer

VIRIDESCENT, BLLC

A | speaker | writer | artist | consultant | building a creative resource platform called the #VIRIVERSE ♾: Immersive Sustainability by VIRIDESCENT. Through an equation of circularity ♻️ + art 🎨 + science 🧪 , they strive to inspire storytelling and impact for both sustainability champions and the masses, alike. Chance has a background in sustainable business, hospitality, and events, believing in the power of human connection and partnership as a pathway to a better world.

His accomplishments include building one of the world’s most sustainable trade show destinations (Salt Lake, UT), generating over $1 million in zero waste impacts for nonprofits, and leading the global relaunch of the EIC Sustainable Event Standards. His skills include systems thinking, partnership development, brand building, and mapping business strategy to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. His inspiration comes from family, friends, and our natural world, with hopes to see as many glaciers as life will allow. If you’re interested in any of these things or have interesting things to share (about yourself or cause), join our weekly email experience here or email [email protected] directly (seriously, reach out!) ❤️.

Climathon 2020: Announcing Houston’s Winners!

Climathon 2020: Announcing Houston’s Winners!

Drum roll, please… Meet the Winners of Climathon Houston 2020!

Realizing Houston’s Climate Action Plan

On Earth Day this year, the City of Houston published its first Climate Action Plan. The plan is the culmination of thousands of volunteer time from industry professionals, policy stakeholders, and community advocates. Together the working groups have laid out a concise plan to address the climate challenges that Houston faces along with maintaining a leadership role in the energy transition.

This year’s Climathon will look to realize some of the goals of the plan through design sprints led by local subject matter experts in the areas of Transportation, Energy Innovation, Building Optimization, and Materials Management.

Join us as we share some of the most interesting ideas to emerge from Climathon Houston 2020, and announce the winning solutions that will go on to the Climathon Global Awards!

Featured Challenges

Transportation

#1 – This Challenge will be led by the team at EVolve Houston. EVolve Houston has set short- and long-term targets to increase the awareness, affordability, and availability of electrified transportation in the Greater Houston area. The Electric Vehicle Roadmap, developed in collaboration with over 40 stakeholders, sets forth the goal for 30% of new car sales to be EV by the year 2030.

Energy Transition

#1 – Make Houston the leader in carbon capture technology and energy innovation.

#2 – Restore, protect, and enhance Houston’s natural ability to capture and store carbon.

Building Optimization

#1 – Reduce building energy use and maximize savings.

#2 – Expand investment in energy efficiency.

Materials Management

#1 – Reduce waste and transform the circular economy.

#2 – Optimize waste operations and create power from waste.

Thank you to our sponsors:

Sponsor this year’s Climathon: https://www.betterunite.com/impacthubhouston-climathonhouston2020sponsorship

… Or be a part of next year’s Climathon! Contact Impact Hub Houston to explore how we can collaborate on #ClimateAction!

Entrepreneurs, Investors, Innovators & Changemakers: Join us for more #THIS2020 Events! See the full calendar of 35+ *virtual* talks, panels, hackathons and more at https://thehoustonimpactsummit.com/

Help promote and expand inclusivity and equity across Houston’s entrepreneurial ecosystem: Sponsor THIS today! > https://www.betterunite.com/impacthubhouston-this2020sponsorship