Month: October 2014

Sonny Tu, our extremely talented co-op student from the University of Waterloo, has created a new look for the blog that integrates with the new look of our website. I love the animation and graphics on this site. Let us know what you think.

I was at a presentation yesterday by Mostafa Askari from the Canadian Parliamentary Budget Office. The PBO released yesterday its "Economic and Fiscal Outlook Update 2014" with some interesting perspectives on the ability of the Feds to finance infrastructure...

October 14, 2014 New York, New York.- Impact Infrastructure, Inc. (ii) announced today that Stephane Larocque has joined the company as a Senior Vice President and Consulting Practice Leader. Larocque was one of the original pioneers in the development of the...

The Economist strikes again - "Encouraging climate action - Try jam today - Policies to slow down warming may be more attractive if framed as ways of speeding up growth" Sept. 20th 2014 with news of "a report arguing not that global warming will destroy the Earth, but...

ii is very proud that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has included its model for stormwater in its list of resources. BCE for Flood Risk The EPA has included the Business Case Evaluator (BCE) for Stormwater in its resources list to manage flood risk (Link or...

ii had the pleasure of working with Regiane Hyodo, a 4th year Environmental Engineering student from Brazil over the summer through the Ciência sem Fronteiras (CsF). The CsF is a large-scale nationwide scholarship program primarily funded by the Brazilian federal...

I came across this interesting development to turn green stormwater management into cash. AutoCASE calculates the cash and non-cash value of green stormwater management. We do this because the value is there and it accrues in some form to someone. There is always the...

The Economist recently published an article on "Curbing climate change - The deepest cuts", their guide to the actions that have done the most to slow global warming (Sep. 20th 2014). Like the McKinsey studydid for individual climate related actions a few years ago...