Guest: Dr. David Kahane, Alberta's Climate Dialogue
Citizens are at the forefront of energy policy change in Alberta.
Dr. David Kahane is the Director of Alberta’s Climate Dialogue, a citizen group that addressed Edmonton’s call for recommendations on energy neutrality.
He leads 60 people from diverse backgrounds that accurately reflects the makeup of the city, “a group of citizens that were genuinely diverse, that had the chance to do some learning and hear from each other and this is their considered set of recommendations.” City Council unanimously accepted the plan and used it to form its energy policy.
We invited Omri Haiven of the Clean Energy Research Group to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the potential agrivoltaics offers to farmers.
We invited Dr. Sally Aitken of the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at UBC to join us for a Conversation That Matters about working with our trees to ensure they have long and healthy lives.
We invited Lasse Gustavsson, the CEO of Ocean Wise, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about the vital role the ocean plays in our survival, the risks the world’s oceans face, and how we can mitigate those harms.
We invited Mark Jaccard, the author of “The Citizen’s Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths that Hinder Progress” and the Chair and CEO of the BC Utilities Commission, to join us for a Conversation That Matters about finding a path to open dialogue and realistic strategies to address our climate challenges.