Events

Sustainable Waterloo Region hosts an event season focused on connecting Regional Carbon Initiative members with the expertise and collaborative learning opportunities necessary to implement effective GHG reduction strategies. Our events provide the unique networks, direction, and inspiration for building environmental sustainability into an organization’s culture.

We welcome anyone interested in making advancements towards more sustainable operations to attend a Sustainable Waterloo Region event.

Our event season includes:

• Educational Forums (Quarterly): Provide attendees with the opportunity to hear from subject-matter experts and their peers about successful case studies and inspirational stories, in order to learn cost-effective best practices with respect to reducing GHG emissions.
• Technical Workshops (Quarterly): Provide attendees with technical information from GHG Services Professionals (engineers, consultants, and energy specialists) in Waterloo Region, with a focus on helping employees responsible for their organization’s GHG reductions implement successful reduction strategies within their organizations.
• Peer-2-Peer Networking Sessions (Monthly):  Co-hosted with Communitech, each Peer-2-Peer Networking Session will feature a presentation by an organization’s Green Team to share the projects they’ve found to be successful and to discuss possible solutions to setbacks.
• Member Hosted Learning Sessions (Ad-hoc): Hosted by Regional Carbon Initiative (RCI) members, our Member Hosted Learning Sessions allow organizations to tour the facilities of other members and see how GHG reduction practices have been implemented within their operations.
• Evening of Recognition (Annual): At the end of each reporting year within the Regional Carbon Initiative, Sustainable Waterloo Region celebrates the achievements of members by hosting an evening event that is attended by 300+ community members who come together to recognize members’ GHG emission reduction accomplishments. The event also coincides with the release of our year-end report.

All RCI members receive complementary admission passes to events. If members are unable to attend events or wish to review speaker presentations, all event presentations are recorded and made available through MemberLink, the RCI online community.