Top 10 Cleantech and Sustainability Blog Posts Needed to be Written

Toronto, Canada – August 26, 2010 – In developing funding and growth strategies with clients and partners in recent months Mindfirst Inc. has noticed that market research and public awareness needs to be greatly enhanced in many areas if new technologies are going to be funded by investors and ultimately used by businesses and consumers. [...]

Carbon Pricing as a Catalyst for Innovation and Sustainability

The following article recently appeared in The Globe and Mail and the Sustainable Prosperity blog linked here.

A tool to meet the productivity challenge: carbon pricing

(July 9, 2010) ROGER MARTIN AND ALEXANDER WOOD

Roger Martin is dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and director of the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate [...]

Mindfirst Sources Funding for Five 10 MW Solar Projects

Solar panels at Vermont test facility.

In the fall of 2009 many Ontario developers rushed to submit applications hoping to gain approval for a limited number of 10 MW solar projects that would be able to fit within the estimated 4,000 MW of available capacity on the Ontario grid. Despite an abundance of applications there still [...]

Looking East-West Rather Than North-South

Tom Sweeney describing "Open Venture Innovation".

The SDTC Investment Committee (IC) meetings are always fascinating because of the many wonderful and interesting projects and technologies that are discussed and reviewed. Also very interesting are the sidebar conversations with fellow IC members during breaks, before and after the closed-door sessions.

Tom Sweeney, an IC member now based in [...]

Before you say “Yes”

Before you say “Yes”:

Questions Prospective Directors Should Ask Before Joining a Board

The following is adapted from a class given at the Institute of Corporate Directors Corporate Governance College 2005:

What are the unique challenges facing [...]

Henry Vehovec Kicks Off Engineering Science Education Conference

Henry Vehovec with University of Toronto Engineering Science students, 2010.

On January 15, 2010, Mindfirst President Henry Vehovec spoke to 250 students and faculty on the topic Energy Systems Design kicking off the 2010 University of Toronto Engineering Science Education Conference. Hilary Inyang, originally scheduled to speak was unable to travel to Toronto. Prof Hilary [...]