Humans are the masters of Earth when it comes to energy. We reap it from fossil fuels, the sun, wind and waters, even from the atom. You are using it now to read these words. Yet we waste most of it in the form of heat, whether it’s the blazing temperatures inside the engine of your car or the heat pouring out of the smokestack of a factory. By most, I mean up to 70 percent. That’s ridiculously bad for both our wallets and our environment.

What if there was a technology that could harvest the waste heat from factories, power plants and data centers and turn it into electricity? Well, there is – and it is being born at a startup housed at a university in an underappreciated corner of Ontario Province called Durham.

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla has a conversation with:

• Savanna Myers, Director of Economic Development, Grey County, Ontario, Canada
• Wendy Dupley, Economic Development Advisor, Langley, BC, Canada
• Donna Gillespie, CEO, Kingston Economic Development Corporation, Kingston, Canada
• Simon Gill, Director of Economic Development & Tourism, Durham, Canada

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla has a conversation with:

• Savanna Myers, Director of Economic Development, Grey County, Ontario, Canada
• Wendy Dupley, Economic Development Advisor, Langley, BC, Canada
• Donna Gillespie, CEO, Kingston Economic Development Corporation, Kingston, Canada
• Simon Gill, Director of Economic Development & Tourism, Durham, Canada

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dan Mathieson, Former Mayor of Stratford.

In this episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Lou Zacharilla speaks with Dan Mathieson, Former Mayor of Stratford.

Grimson spoke before a large crowd at the Southeast College's Estevan campus.

Winnipeg is the capital of the Canadian province of Manitoba, located in the center of the North American continent. Winnipeg’s economy is dominated by agriculture, energy, manufacturing and a growing tech scene. 

In this special episode of The Intelligent Community, ICF Co-Founder Robert Bell speaks with Hamilton Mayor Fred Eisenberger about leadership throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In this series with mayors, police chiefs and other leading thinkers on the topic of policing and collaborative leadership, we ask how Intelligent Communities are responding to the issue and what advantages and best practices they might offer others.

In this series with mayors, police chiefs and other leading thinkers on the topic of policing and collaborative leadership, we ask how Intelligent Communities are responding to the issue and what advantages and best practices they might offer others.