This session is about learning with and from each other about how to advance existing collaborations and to identify opportunities for developing new community based partnerships. The session will focus on the barriers and benefits of multi-partner collaborations and how working together can help us move from awareness to achieving sustained behavioural change.
This session is highly dialogue based and will include a combination of expert presenters and ample opportunity for people to engage in conversation with each other about how to address challenges and advance community based collaborations to support conservation.
Our hope is that attendees leave this session with insights and commitments to specific actions to further conservation efforts. Moving beyond awareness to action – stages in the behavioural change process
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 3.5 non-core LU, PIBC 2.0 LU Details
1:30pm – 2:30pmBreakout Session
Communicating to Build Commitment for Climate Action
This session will explore the most common reasons for public resistance to local government climate action plans and it will identify a variety of approaches to help move beyond the resistance. Learn how to take citizen engagement to the next level and how we can achieve the change required to meet British Columbia’s long-term climate commitments
Professional Credit(s) Available: No Credits Available
3:00pm – 4:00pmBreakout Session
Doing Business Differently – Living Water Smart
The forum session will showcase how partnerships, collaboration, innovation and integration are helping local governments apply a water-centric lens to make the best choices for sustainable, healthy and vibrant communities throughout British Columbia.
How do we align our efforts at three scales – provincial, regional and local – to do business differently, prepare communities for change and choose to be water smart? The forum session will showcase best choices for living water smart: this is what we want to achieve, and this is how we will get there. The importance of establishing a vision combined with practical steps to reach the goal will be emphasized.
Contributing to the Living Water Smart vision is the Water Sustainability Action Plan for British Columbia, a partnership umbrella for action on the ground. The Water Sustainability Action Plan comprises of inter-connected program elements that give local governments and practitioners the tools and experience to better manage land and water resources.
District Energy – Business Models, Governance & Financing for a Sustainable Future
Here, we will examine the basic business and governance models possible for District Energy systems. With unique revenue streams, risk profiles and financing options, a diverse panel with local, national and global experience will provide insight into operating these structures. Considerations for the current economic climate have been made and met with relevant solutions.
Moderator: Parminder Sandhu, Vistera Consulting Group
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 1.0 non-core LU, PIBC 1.0 LU Details
1:00pm – 2:00pmBreakout Session
Successful Community Energy Plan Implementation: Stories from Around the World
Undertaking a Community Energy and Emissions Plan? Learn about the common factors behind successful CEEP implementation from a leading energy consultant and hear of experiences from around the world.
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 1.0 non-core LU, PIBC 1.0 LU Details
2:30pm – 3:30pmBreakout Session
Process Smart Choices: A Practical Approach to Making Better Decisions
Your project team has recommended Option A. While it has some great aspects, Option B is significantly more cost effective and Option C is a simpler technological solution – what do you do? Through a series of fun and interactive exercises, you will be introduced to structured decision-making: a logical, simple way of integrating multiple objectives into your business and policy decisions, addressing risk and uncertainty and clarifying trade-offs to arrive at sound defensible decisions.
8:00am – 12:00pm Workshop
Partnering for Community Based Change
This session is about learning with and from each other about how to advance existing collaborations and to identify opportunities for developing new community based partnerships. The session will focus on the barriers and benefits of multi-partner collaborations and how working together can help us move from awareness to achieving sustained behavioural change.
This session is highly dialogue based and will include a combination of expert presenters and ample opportunity for people to engage in conversation with each other about how to address challenges and advance community based collaborations to support conservation.
Our hope is that attendees leave this session with insights and commitments to specific actions to further conservation efforts. Moving beyond awareness to action – stages in the behavioural change process
Moderator: Michael Travers, BC Hydro
Speakers: Sally Emory, Northern Environmental Action Team Amy Fournier, City of Vancouver Sustainability Group Susan Haid, District of North Vancouver Charles Holmes, Legacy North Shore Society Susan Ibbott, Climate Action Secretariat
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 3.5 non-core LU, PIBC 2.0 LU Details
1:30pm – 2:30pm Breakout Session
Communicating to Build Commitment for Climate Action
This session will explore the most common reasons for public resistance to local government climate action plans and it will identify a variety of approaches to help move beyond the resistance. Learn how to take citizen engagement to the next level and how we can achieve the change required to meet British Columbia’s long-term climate commitments
Moderator: Robyn Wark, BC Hydro
Speakers: Norm Connolly, Community Energy Association Kerri Klein, BC Healthy Communities Dale Littlejohn, Community Energy Association
Professional Credit(s) Available: No Credits Available
3:00pm – 4:00pm Breakout Session
Doing Business Differently – Living Water Smart
The forum session will showcase how partnerships, collaboration, innovation and integration are helping local governments apply a water-centric lens to make the best choices for sustainable, healthy and vibrant communities throughout British Columbia.
How do we align our efforts at three scales – provincial, regional and local – to do business differently, prepare communities for change and choose to be water smart? The forum session will showcase best choices for living water smart: this is what we want to achieve, and this is how we will get there. The importance of establishing a vision combined with practical steps to reach the goal will be emphasized.
Contributing to the Living Water Smart vision is the Water Sustainability Action Plan for British Columbia, a partnership umbrella for action on the ground. The Water Sustainability Action Plan comprises of inter-connected program elements that give local governments and practitioners the tools and experience to better manage land and water resources.
Moderator: Jeff Chiu, BC Hydro
Speakers: Kim Stephens, Water Sustainability Committee Mike Tanner, Water Sustainability Committee Ted van der Gulik, Water Sustainability Committee
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 1.0 non-core LU, PIBC 1.0 LU Details
10:30am – 11:30am Breakout Session
District Energy – Business Models, Governance & Financing for a Sustainable Future
Here, we will examine the basic business and governance models possible for District Energy systems. With unique revenue streams, risk profiles and financing options, a diverse panel with local, national and global experience will provide insight into operating these structures. Considerations for the current economic climate have been made and met with relevant solutions.
Moderator: Parminder Sandhu, Vistera Consulting Group
Speakers: Chris Baber, City of Vancouver Kim Pfeifer, ENMAX Corporation Roger Prosser, Dalkia Canada Ben Themens, City of North Vancouver
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 1.0 non-core LU, PIBC 1.0 LU Details
1:00pm – 2:00pm Breakout Session
Successful Community Energy Plan Implementation: Stories from Around the World
Undertaking a Community Energy and Emissions Plan? Learn about the common factors behind successful CEEP implementation from a leading energy consultant and hear of experiences from around the world.
Moderator: Robyn Wark, BC Hydro
Speaker: Peter Garforth, Garforth Internatinal LLC
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 1.0 non-core LU, PIBC 1.0 LU Details
2:30pm – 3:30pm Breakout Session
Process Smart Choices: A Practical Approach to Making Better Decisions
Your project team has recommended Option A. While it has some great aspects, Option B is significantly more cost effective and Option C is a simpler technological solution – what do you do? Through a series of fun and interactive exercises, you will be introduced to structured decision-making: a logical, simple way of integrating multiple objectives into your business and policy decisions, addressing risk and uncertainty and clarifying trade-offs to arrive at sound defensible decisions.
Moderator: Sherry Ernst, BC Hydro
Speaker: Basil Stumborg, BC Hydro
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 1.0 non-core LU, PIBC 1.0 LU Details
2:30pm – 3:30pm Breakout Session
Managing Your Carbon Footprint
Learn the basics of carbon accounting as well as key reduction strategies to consider when moving your organization toward carbon neutrality.
Moderator: Tim Mosley, BC Hydro
Speakers: Dan Adamson, City of Prince George Adrian Partridge, ENVIRON (Canada) Inc. Carleigh Whitman, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Professional Credit(s) Available: AIBC 1.0 non-core LU, PIBC 1.0 LU Details
Please note: as we continue to develop the 2009 Power Smart Forum program, some session dates and times may vary.