It's almost here.  Season 4 of This Must Be the Place drops Thursday, January 12, 2023.

In this episode of This Must Be The Place Shawna is joined by Shay Bulmer, the founder and General Manager of Northern Homecraft Ltd., an award-winning, net-zero certified custom home company based in Vanderhoof British Columbia. Shay also serves as the current President of the Canadian Home Builders Association (CHBA) in Northern BC and is the presidential appointee at the CHBA BC level.

Highlights from this episode:

• Why Shay says that “energy performance is investment performance”.

• The importance of developing some sort of stimulus for smaller and rural markets to achieve higher performing homes.

• Why it’s worth the time to learn about the different types of comfort that high performance homes can provide.

northernhomecraft.com

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

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Innovator and disruptor Jodi Huettner joins Shawna for this episode of This Must be The Place. Jodi is the driving force behind creating and supplying Inclusive Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE, for women not only in the energy efficiency space but also for active and outdoor STEM positions. She is the President and CEO of Helga Wear Inc..

Highlights from this episode:

• PPE impacts many things for women, including mental health.

• The A-ha moment that Jodi experienced and why it was simultaneously “amazing and devastating”.

• Find out about the exciting new PPE products that Helga Wear is currently developing.

helgawear.com

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

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Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip"

In this episode of This Must Be the Place, Shawna chats with Chris MagWood, a crusader for reversing climate change and for the past 25 years he has dedicated his career to inspiring and assisting others to do the same. He currently holds two positions—Manager in the Carbon Free Buildings program at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) and as Director at Builders for Climate Action, an organization which he helped to establish.

Highlights from this episode:

• Find out why Chris “got really obsessed with metrics”.

• Learn about the tool that Chris created that measures embodied carbon that you can download.

• Hear what Chris has to say about moving the needle to meet our embodied carbon benchmarks by 2030 and beyond.

buildersforclimateaction.org

rmi.org

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

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Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip"

Shawna is joined by Lorrie Rand in this episode of This Must Be The Place.

Lorrie is the Sustainability Director at Habit Studio, a company she co-founded that specializes in sustainable renovations. Habit Studio is the leading authority on sustainable home design in Nova Scotia. Her company is also currently 8 women strong!

Tune in to find out:

• Why Lorrie decided to only work in Passive House.

• The huge retrofit project that she is documenting for a Youtube series!

habitstudio.ca

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

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Blue House Energy’s Website by R & G - The Sustainability Agency https://www.rgstrategic.com/

Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip"

Shawna is joined by Lorrie Rand in this episode of This Must Be The Place.

Lorrie is the Sustainability Director at Habit Studio, a company she co-founded that specializes in sustainable renovations. Habit Studio is the leading authority on sustainable home design in Nova Scotia. Her company is also currently 8 women strong!

Tune in to find out:

• Why Lorrie decided to only work in Passive House.

• The important project Habit Studio has partnered with Natural Resource Canada (NRCan) on that spans six municipalities in Canada.

• The huge retrofit project that she is documenting for a Youtube series!

habitstudio.ca

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

A Production of: Blue House Energy bluehouseenergy.com/

Tanya Media tanyamedia.com

Podcast Atlantic podcastatlantic.com/

Blue House Energy’s Website by R & G - The Sustainability Agency https://www.rgstrategic.com/

Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip"

In this episode of This Must Be the Place, Shawna chats with Kendall Ansell-sometimes referred to as a “Fairy Design Mother” and a “gender-smashing business owner”. Kendall is the owner of Belle Construction and Kendall Ansell Interiors located in Vancouver, BC.

In this episode:

• Find out the popular Google search term related to the construction industry that has changed in recent years.

• Learn what tired, gender-biased question Kendall received from a student in a recent lecture she taught and her response to it.

• How Belle Construction is pioneering the way for more women to work in the trades.

belleconstruction.com

kendallansell.com

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

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Blue House Energy’s Website by R & G - The Sustainability Agency https://www.rgstrategic.com/

Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip"

In this episode Shawna introduces the final theme of season 3—how do we inspire and disrupt the industry moving forward to meet our energy efficiency targets? Her guest Jesse Hitchcock, is a senior research analyst working in energy efficiency and climate change mitigation. She is dedicated to building a decarbonized future—one where communities are sustainable and supportive for all. She is recognized for her community leadership and has served on Canada’s preeminent leadership forums and has been featured in such publications as the Huffington Post, CBC Power and Politics and others.

In this episode:

• Why we need to break down silos to develop better climate change solutions.

• How lived experience and diversity is an essential lens to apply at the policy table.

• Why we have a broken ecosystem in energy retrofits and what we can do about it.

• Why Jesse has a different definition of “scale”.

esource.com

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

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Blue House Energy’s Website by R & G - The Sustainability Agency https://www.rgstrategic.com/

Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip"

In this episode of This Must Be the Place, Shawna is joined by fellow educator—Yasmin Abraham. A multi-award winner and recognized nationally and internationally for her work, she is the vision behind Empower Me -Canada’s only energy efficiency, education and behaviour change program designed specifically for underrepresented communities.

In this episode:

• Why language is important and helps to build trust.

• Why a social enterprise business model can have a big impact.

• Learn why Yasmin says, “Too often perspectives are not included in decisions and not included in policies."

empowerme.ca

kambogroup.ca

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

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Blue House Energy’s Website by R & G - The Sustainability Agency https://www.rgstrategic.com/

Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip"

In this episode of This Must Be the Place, Shawna covers a lot of important ground with guest Kirk Johnson. He has worked passionately over the past two decades in reimagining a Canada powered by low-carbon, net-zero, sustainable energy. He has spent his career designing transformative sustainable energy programs and has taught as a professor at Humber College.

Highlights from this episode:

• Find out about what he refers to as “perverse incentives”.

• For a long time he was the only person of colour in the room-why he says we need to “stand up for people that are not in the room”.

• He explains why “reinvention of the wheel” is one of the biggest industry myths.

Current Position:

President, Eco-Efficiency Consulting

For more background info:

ohe.efficiencycanada.org/kirk

Host/Producer - Shawna Henderson [email protected]

Producer - Tanya Chedrawy [email protected]

Technical Producer - Michael Boyd [email protected]

Social Media – Anita Kirkbride www.twirp.ca

A Production of: Blue House Energy bluehouseenergy.com/

Tanya Media tanyamedia.com

Podcast Atlantic podcastatlantic.com/

Blue House Energy’s Website by R & G - The Sustainability Agency https://www.rgstrategic.com/

Music from Arches Audio - https://archesaudio.com/ Title of Song - "Road Trip"