FoodDive.com has featured future Cleantech Commons tenant, Noblegen Inc., a cleantech nutritional ingredient company, in an extensive online profile. You can read that article in full here! Titled “Ancient nutrition: Why Noblegen thinks one-celled euglena is the ingredient of the future“, FoodDive.com writes: “With its…
Future Cleantech Commons tenant, Noblegen Inc., a cleantech nutritional ingredient company, has emerged as the big winner at the annual World Food Innovation Awards which took place in London earlier this year. Noblegen won in two key categories: Best food concept and Best plant-based…
Future Cleantech Commons tenant, Carbonix, has been profiled in Northern Ontario Business magazine, which says that the cleantech company is “ready to tackle mining legacy sites” by using wood waste residue to trap industrial contaminants. Northern Ontario Business writes that Carbonix “has a green…
Recently, Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) outlined a series of new programming and funding opportunities clean technology ventures at an event hosted by Cleantech Commons in Peterborough. Read that story here! Éric-Aimé Patry, the Manager of Outreach and Engagement at Innovative Solutions Canada & Build in Canada Innovation…
Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC), a funding program focused on R&D and prototype testing, outlined a series of new programming and funding opportunities for startups and early-stage ventures at an event hosted by Cleantech Commons in Peterborough on Friday, February 14, 2020. Éric-Aimé Patry, the…
Future Cleantech Commons tenant, Noblegen Inc., an advanced nutritional ingredient company, was selected to join the Canadian government’s recent delegation to the 2020 Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, California. Noblegen is a cleantech nutritional ingredient company that produces plant-based ingredients using the sustainable microorganism Euglena…
Kicking off 2020 in style, Cleantech Commons partnered with our friends at the Innovation Cluster to present a talk by Jason Wight of OPG. Read more about that event here! Jason is Director of Engineering at Ontario Power Generation‘s Pickering Nuclear Generating Station and…
Future Cleantech Commons tenant, Noblegen Inc., an advanced nutritional ingredient company, has announced the launch of its first direct-to-consumer product, a plant-based “whole egg” powder. The product is named, “the egg”, and it’s exclusively available on their Eunite™ website. (Learn more – way more –…
Future Cleantech Commons tenant, Noblegen Inc., an advanced nutritional ingredient company, has achieved “self-GRAS” regulatory status for their protein-rich flour sourced from dried whole cell Euglena gracilis. This is a major breakthrough for the company and means that Noblegen’s protein-rich euglena flour will be available…
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…
Cleantech Commons received several positive media reviews at the end of 2019. In an Editorial published on December 09, Peterborough Examiner writes that “Cleantech Commons is based on ‘green’ expertise that already exists at Trent and is well on the way to having real,…
The reputation of Cleantech Commons partner and host institution, Trent University, as a world-leading environmental university was highlighted when it was named among the top 100 most sustainable university campuses around the world in the 2019 UI GreenMetric World University Rankings. The latest annual…
Clean technology sector leaders have come together to launch the Ontario Clean Technology Industry Association (OCTIA), a not-for-profit organization that will champion Ontario’s cleantech sector. (According to MaRS Data Catalyst, 131 Ontario-based cleantech ventures collectively reached revenue figures of nearly CAD $500 million in…
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…
The Cleantech Commons Management Committee has released a list of “Tenant Criteria” for our 85-acre clean & green technology research park. Learn more about the sectors that are a core focus of Cleantech Commons, our tenant criteria, and the tenant evaluation and assessment process…
Trails, roads, sewers and water services are being installed to support the creation of Cleantech Commons – an innovation park focusing on green and clean technology through a partnership between Trent University and the City of Peterborough. Work will resume on providing services for…
Peterborough This Week reports that “After a summer of preparing Cleantech Commons’ main access road, work is being done to prepare for construction of the city’s upcoming green-tech business park.” Read the full article here! Martin Yuill, Cleantech Commons executive director is quoted as saying that…
The Peterborough Examiner reports that “Work on the site of what will become Cleantech Commons will resume this month“. Read the article here! Plans for the 85-acre innovation and research park site near Trent University include trails, roads, sewers and water services. Quoting the…
Peterborough-Kawartha Conservative Party federal candidate, Michael Skinner, toured Cleantech Commons at Trent University on July 30, 2019. Skinner was full of praise for Cleantech Commons, Canada’s only cleantech, climate and environmental technology-focused Research and Technology Park. “Supporting technological innovation through initiatives such as Cleantech…
Cleantech Commons launched our “New Frontiers” speaker series on August 22 in Peterborough. The inaugural event was presented in partnership with Eco Innovations Inc., and featured a talk by Keith Dewey, the owner of British Columbia-based Zigloo Studio Inc. Keith’s talk was titled: “Container…
Peterborough-Kawartha NDP federal candidate, Candace Shaw, paid a visit to Cleantech Commons on August 14, 2019. Shaw was hosted by Cleantech Commons executive director, Martin Yuill, who provided a briefing and tour of the clean technology Research & Innovation Park. Yuill outlined the vision…
Canada’s Shadow Minister for Science, Michael Chong, paid a visit to Cleantech Commons at Trent University on July 30 while visiting Peterborough to lend his support to local Peterborough-Kawartha Conservative Party federal candidate, Michael Skinner. Chong has been endorsed by GreenPAC as “one of…
Ontario Green Party leader, Mike Schreiner, visited Peterborough on July 4 as part of his “Clean and Caring Economy Tour“, which saw Schreiner make 15 stops across Ontario. In Peterborough, Schreiner visited the site of Cleantech Commons at Trent University, where he was accompanied…