Category: Community Updates

$10,000 awarded to advance environmental innovation in Peterborough; Community Futures Peterborough preapproves finalists for $20,000 microloans Recently, we announced that the Rotary Club of Peterborough and Cleantech Commons have joined forces to promote environmental innovation. Cleantech Commons teamed up with Rotary as founding Title Partner to launch…

Cleantech Commons Research Park: positively impacting the future – a community where innovation flourishes. Where creative collaborations begin. Where life-long partnerships are created. As the world transitions to a clean growth economy, Peterborough, Ontario is set to contribute to that shift. Peterborough is home…

With the Durham Region recently being named one of the top seven Intelligent Communities in the world, this year’s Collision Conference in Toronto presented a fantastic opportunity for Cleantech Commons to partner with our colleagues at Trent University Durham GTA and Invest Durham to…

A recent edition of “Perspective” magazine says that as the world transitions to a clean growth economy, Peterborough is well-positioned to contribute to that shift. The community of Peterborough, it writes, is home to rich natural resources, leading educational institutions, and a well-equipped business…

Writing about Ontario’s “world-class clean technology ecosystem” in its new publication, “Where cleantech innovation abounds,” Invest Ontario calls Cleantech Commons “a growing hub for driving innovation and commercialization in clean, green and low/zero-carbon technology.” Cleantech Commons executive director, Martin Yuill, describes the focus of…

In an article titled “Canada needs to boost its clean technology sector,” The Globe & Mail writes that “resources like Cleantech Commons are essential in moving Canada up the commercialization ranks, and to bolster its reputation for innovation.” “Cleantech Commons,” The Globe writes, “is a research…

In an article titled “Canada needs to boost its clean technology sector,” The Globe & Mail identifies Trent University as “[an] academic institution leading the charge for cleantech commercialization.” “Recognizing the need to nurture commercialization in the clean technology sector, [Trent’s] Cleantech Commons is…

“Cleantech Commons hasn’t let a global pandemic slow its development down,” writes Keaton Robbins of Peterborough & the Kawarthas Economic Development. In an article entitled “Cleantech Commons Construction On Track, Multi-tenant Announcement Looming“, Martin Yuill, the research park’s executive director, tells Robbins: “despite everything that…

A partnership between Trent University and the City of Peterborough, Cleantech Commons is a collaboration that aims to create local jobs in the growing cleantech sector. With the global cleantech market projected to exceed $3.3 trillion by 2022, Cleantech Commons at Trent University is set…

At the start of this new – and hopefully “improved” – year, we would like to take a moment to thank our entire community for your continued interest in, and support for, all things Cleantech Commons™. We greatly appreciate all your engagement, enthusiasm, and…

With a focus on researching, creating, and commercializing clean technology products, services, and technologies that aim to both increase performance and reduce negative environmental impacts, Cleantech Commons™ research park is creating a unique cluster of growth companies, spin-out, spinoff, and startup ventures, and corporate…

We reported in our May 2020 “Community Update” on the progress being made in providing municipal services to Cleantech Commons, the new clean technology research park currently under development on Trent University’s East Bank. You can read how Cleantech Commons is anchoring Peterborough’s cleantech…

“Cleantech Commons,” says our executive director, Martin Yuill in a recent “Update to the Community“, “is designed to host a clustered community of growth companies, spin-out & startup ventures, and corporate accelerators & ‘innovation outposts’.” Pointing out that Cleantech Commons is co-located with the…

Despite the interruptions that resulted from COVID-19 – and with comprehensive new health & safety measures in place to protect our contractors, construction crews and visitors – the provision of municipal services to Cleantech Commons on Trent University’s East Bank has continued to make…

Peterborough Mayor, Diane Therrien, says that Cleantech Commons will help position Peterborough as a “leader and cutting edge community” when it comes to building “a more sustainable and green future“. Quoted by Business View Magazine in an article titled “Peterborough, Ontario: Innovation and invention“,…

Anyone who regularly uses Pioneer Road on Trent University’s East Bank will know that the site of Cleantech Commons is currently a hive of activity! Municipal services – previously provided to the entrance of the research park – are now being extended into Cleantech…

Peterborough City Council declared a climate emergency this fall. It underscores ongoing work at Cleantech Commons, which promises to bring together a community of big-thinking energy, environment and climate problem solvers. In the face of today’s global environmental challenges, Cleantech Commons represents a timely…