Spring 2019 Newsletter
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Hi PAOV,
We are excited to share the news and upcoming events of 2019! From BCUC hearings, the Cool-It educational program and our local chapter successes, we have lots happening!
News
Data Viz meets Sustainable Energies On Thursday Feb. 28th, nearly 100 people gathered in Code Core’s web development Bootcamp space for the most recent Vancouver Data Visualization Meetup! Speakers from Clir Renewables, Solarmass, and Neurio presented how each of their companies use data and showed the audience examples of visualizations. The event was warmly received from students, to experienced professionals, to career networkers.
BCSEA Vancouver looks forward to more collaborations with groups in the Vancouver tech and sustainability scenes. If you’re interested in a collaboration, please contact the chapter at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Cool-It News The BCSEA has exciting news – thanks to a grant from Environment and Climate Change Canada and the North Growth Foundation we are developing a climate education program for high school students and digitising our challenge so that it will be available as an app for wider distribution.
We are looking for high school students, teachers, and interested members of the public who would like to contribute their ideas to the project. Please get in touch if you are interested in finding out more – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Victoria Chapter Updates Hello from the Victoria Chapter. Lots is happening.
We are very pleased to welcome four new steering committee members to the team: Lisa Kadonaga, Scott Mellett, September Smith and Yaqiong Wang.
In 2019 we want to do more public outreach and mobilization. We want people to feel supported to make sustainable energy choices in their own lives and inspired to support their elected representatives (at all levels) to make bigger moves toward energy sustainability.
We are supporting the City of Victoria and the District of Saanich to achieve their 100% renewable energy by 2050 target for their communities. And we are encouraging other local governments to adopt the same target.
We are also reaching out to high school students through YIP (Youth Involvement Project), educating grade 9 through 12 students on climate change and energy, and also linking them up with sustainable energy businesses for their work placement requirements.
Look for us at Car Free Day and other community events. Stay tuned for notice of our “pub nights” (or “coffee house nights”). For example, on March 7th, we will give updates on the new EfficiencyBC incentives for home energy retrofits (including more money for heat pumps!).
We hope to see you at one of our events, and we love to hear from you – so please drop us a line.
Vancouver Chapter - Volunteer Onboarding Night The Vancouver Chapter is taking a new approach to bringing on new volunteers. Our first volunteer onboarding session this year held on Jan. 24 with about 30 participants! Chapter Chair, Erin Quon, and Board Member, Arman Mottaghi, detailed the goals of the BCSEA and specifically that of the Vancouver Chapter, what was done in 2017/2018 and communicated the vision and volunteer plan of 2019. Each Project Manager (PM) presented their initiative and the ask for volunteers.
Projects for 2019 include:
- Women in Sustainability Mentoring Night (WISE) / PM Selina Liu / May
- Hackathon / PM Arman Mottaghi / Autumn
- Solar in Africa / PM Kenny Yuen / Ongoing
- Community outreach and local initiatives / Max Melchior / Ongoing
- Communications, newsletter, Green Drinks / Masha Doubrovskaia / Ongoing
- Industry, business partners, career growth / Annabelle Wong / Ongoing
Huge thanks to Clir Renewables for hosting the event in their start-up space in Mount Pleasant, and special thank you to Johanna Fulda (Data Viz), all the BCSEA managers, our treasurer Pranshu Shelat, and project Champion Katarina Priecelova for organizing and taking part in this event!
Join us in our next open steering committee meeting in CRAFT Brewery on March 20.
Policy Corner Updates - BCUC Decision on Arbitrage of Industrial Self-generation
- Commission Accepts FortisBC-Gas Long-term
Plan
- BCUC ends FortisBC's Residential Conservation Rate
- FortisBC Inc.'s 2019-2022 DSM Expenditure Schedule
- BC's new ZEV standard -
modeled on California or Quebec?
- BCUC EV Charging Inquiry - Phase 1 Report
- BC Hydro Net Metering update BCSEA Response to the CleanBC Plan
The British Columbia Sustainable Energy Association would like to encourage ourmembers and supporters to take part in this on-line survey.
By completing this 10 minute survey, you will be helping us grow a stronger organization. Thank you for your participation.
Address Change Effective April 1, 2019 BCSEA will be changing it’s mailing address to:
BCSEA
1631 Oakland Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia
V8T 2L3
Our phone number will remain the same.
For more news and updates visit our website!
Job Postings
Program Specialist - FortisBC City: Surrey
Department: Conservation & Energy Management
Reporting to the Conservation and Energy Management...with goals of assisting ..... customers in reducing their electric/natural gas consumption, energy costs and GHG emissions and enhancing FortisBC’s corporate reputation.
Job Details
Software Developer Internship - Clir March 21, 2019
Tech Team
We are looking to hire across the board and across various seniority levels for our tech team. Our core technologies include – AWS Services like S3, RDS, ECS, Docker, Python, JavaScript/ReactJS, Git. Experience with some of them, or with similar technologies, is desirable.
Energy Efficiency Representative, C & EMFortisBC
City: Kelowna (Springfield) Title: Energy Efficiency Representative, C&EM Branch: Electric Affiliation MoveUP
Job Status: Full Time Regular
Job Details View Job Board Upcoming Events
The Power of Sustainable Investing Kamloops Chapter Event
When: March 20 - doors open at 6:30 pm, 7 pm start
Where: TRU, Campus Activity Centre, Terrace Room
Who: Open to the public
Cost: Admission is by donation, pre-registration requested via Eventbrite.
Vancouver Chapter Semi-Quarterly Meetup Vancouver Chapter is having an open meeting in March. This will be informal and more of a chance for volunteers to connect and discuss the different projects and initiatives that they are working on.
Register Here
PIMS Workshop on Mathematical Sciences and Clean Energy Applications Conference
This exploratory workshop will build a greater dialogue between those in the mathematical sciences and the clean energy sector.
Solar Africa
The Solar Africa project is in the process of recruiting volunteers.
The project champion is long time BCSEA member, Dr. Henry Mwandemere. Henry's goal for this project is to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #5 on achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls and #7 on ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all for poor communities in rural Africa.
Volunteers will learn about the challenges poor communities in developing countries face not having access to clean and reliable energy. We will also learn about (and collaborate with ) leading organizations who currently address these energy issues in poor communities and understand the different methods and approaches on achieving renewable energies. Volunteers will also have opportunities to network with one another and leaders in the green industry.
Interested folks looking to gain a foothold into the green industry, expand their green experience, develop leadership skills or to simply observe and learn about this important issue are welcome to join by contacting This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Cool It This spring! Our Cool It! Program is full steam ahead this Spring, with workshops being run in the greater Vancouver region, the Capital Regional District, and for the first time in the Comox Valley Regional District! All of the students are working hard as they tackle our 4-week climate challenge which involves doing actions to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions at home. We’ll keep you posted with their developments!
Interested in Cool-It in your area?
We still have spaces in our Spring Cool It! Climate Leadership Training program in Richmond, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver. We also have spaces for the Capital Regional District (all around Victoria and Saanich).
We’d love to hear from interested teachers and principals and we will book a spot for your class. Or if you would like Cool It in your child’s school, let us know – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.!
Become a Member Thank you for DonatingYou can now help fundraise for us with your SPUD purchases! See more details below or on our website. Your contributions will support the Cool-It initiatives.
British Columbia Sustainable Energy Association - Registered Charity # 86490 0501 RR0011631 Oakland Avenue, Victoria, British Columbia
V8T 2L3 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 604.332.0025
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