Wednesday, September 23, 2026
12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
To Be Announced
Free Event
Presented by Slate Strategies
Two afternoon panels on where climate technology meets the built environment. The first starts from a hard premise: circular materials do not fail on chemistry, they stall on everything around the product. The codes were not written for them, procurement defaults to the incumbent, and specification pathways treat unproven as disqualifying. The second panel is on community-owned energy, including First Nations ownership of generation and distribution, and what stands between a project on paper and one that is built. A Community Action Bus runs from downtown Victoria and back, so transport is provided.
Anu's Take
As a tenth generation farm boy from Ontario, the circular economy is very dear to my heart. Dear enough that I took the circular economy micro-credentials course at BCIT a few years back. The first panel's premise is the one that matters: circular materials do not fail on chemistry, they stall on everything around the product.
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Published Monday, August 17, 2026 by Anu Jolliffe on LinkedIn