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Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC) Selected by Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN) to Lead Major National & Provincial Sustainability Programs

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TORONTO, Oct. 1, 2024 /CNW/ – In celebration of Energy Efficiency Day, Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC) is thrilled to announce its selection by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to lead two pivotal multi-year projects aimed at significantly enhancing sustainability within Canada’s built environment. These projects focus on both new construction and existing affordable housing. For new construction, the Codes Acceleration Project will support Building Officials in accelerating the adoption of higher Tier Building Codes in several regions across the country. For existing affordable housing, SBC’s EnergySPRING program focuses on supporting Ontario’s Social Housing and Indigenous Communities undertake scalable, deep-energy retrofits within their low-rise multi-unit residential buildings.

These projects will drive meaningful progress in creating a more sustainable and energy-efficient future for all Canadians. SBC’s Executive Director Michael Singleton notes, “Codes Acceleration advances eco-system development, awareness, and capacity building on high-performance sustainable national building codes. EnergySPRING scales Social & Indigenous Housing Provider’s ability and supply-chain capacity to deliver low-carbon deep retrofits. Both programs, Codes Acceleration and EnergySPRING, are enabling true market transformation towards sustainable resilient homes in Canada.”

Advancing Codes Acceleration

SBC will spearhead the Codes Acceleration initiative, a comprehensive program designed to support regional Building Officials across Canada as these officials work to implement and support builders to adopt higher Tiers of the latest National Energy Codes for both single family homes and commercial buildings. Through a series of workshops, SBC will demonstrate practical, high-performance solutions that meet the higher Code Tier energy requirements. The workshops combine leading Integrated Design Processes (IDP), real-world technology applications, and regional considerations, thus ensuring that the highest energy-related Tiers can be understood and embraced by Canadian Code Officials.

This initiative, made possible by funding from NRCan’s Codes Acceleration Fund, aims to facilitate the widespread adoption of the National Building Code (NBC) and National Energy Code for Buildings (NECB) across Canada, ensuring that even the highest energy performance tiers are seen as achievable with current designs and technologies. The virtual workshops are already underway for 2024, and SBC encourages all interested Codes officials, and market actors to reach out for participation details.

EnergySPRING: Transforming Ontario’s Social Housing & Indigenous Communities

The EnergySPRING Market Transformation Program adapts the globally proven Energiesprong model for a made-in-Ontario solution to drive deep-energy retrofits within Ontario’s Social Housing and Indigenous communities. While focused on improving resiliency, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and enhancing the overall quality of housing, EnergySPRING projects will address pressing electrification, housing, affordability, extreme weather, and workforce challenges associated with existing low-rise housing in underserved communities.

Guided by the EnergySPRING Market Transformation Advisory Group (EMTAG), the program will engage market actors across Ontario to develop a sustainable market and supply-chain ecosystem for scaling deep-energy retrofits. Through IDP sessions with Municipal Social and Indigenous housing providers, engagement with key market actors, and the provision of practical resources, EnergySPRING will support the transformation of affordable low-rise housing communities, making them energy-efficient, electrified, and adapted for the future. “We are pleased to join EMTAG (EnergySPRING Market Transformation Advisory Group) to share national decarbonization insights, engage the housing eco-system, and/or support EnergySPRING with complementary research such as our Canadian Climate Retrofit Mission and Energy Efficiency in Rental Housing reports.” says Corey Diamond, Executive Director of Efficiency Canada.

Sustainable Buildings Canada’s Commitment

Established in 2002, Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC) has been at the forefront promoting sustainable practices within Canada’s building sectors. As a national non-profit organization, SBC is dedicated to driving innovation and fostering collaboration to achieve a more sustainable built environment.

“We are honoured to have been selected by NRCan to lead these transformative projects,” said Mr. Singleton, who further notes, “both the Codes Acceleration initiative and the EnergySPRING program are critical to advancing sustainability in Canada. These projects not only align with our mission but also present an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of Canadians”

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For further details on the upcoming workshops, please visit https://sbcanada.org/codes-acceleration-workshops/, or to connect with the EnergySPRING program, please visit https://SBCanada.org/energyspring/

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Maropost breaks records in G2 Fall 2024 Reports

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Maropost earns 17 badges across 70 G2 reports, including nine new accolades and eight for mid-market excellence

TORONTO, Oct. 1, 2024 /CNW/ – Building on its G2 Summer Reports success, Maropost Marketing Cloud shattered records in G2’s Fall 2024 Reports, securing an unprecedented 17 badges across 70 categories. G2, the world’s largest software marketplace, awards badges on genuine customer reviews and user feedback.

Maropost’s Fall accolades include nine new badges plus eight more specifically for mid-market excellence, solidifying Marketing Cloud’s position as a leader in marketing automation and ecommerce solutions for fast-growing businesses. Notably, Maropost earned recognition for “Ease of Doing Business With” in both Mid-Market and SMB categories, underlining its commitment to user-friendly solutions across business sizes.

Recognized by G2 as a “High Performer in Email Marketing,” Marketing Cloud helps rapidly scaling brands take control of their email, SMS, and social media programs. Powered by AI, it allows marketers to effortlessly build and segment audiences, customize customer journeys, personalize communications, and automate delivery across multiple channels.

Glowing G2 reviews reinforce why Maropost earned a Fall Reports “Users Love Us” distinction. Customers praise Marketing Cloud’s ability to “precisely target our clients’ audiences, ensuring messages reach the right people at the right time.” Others claim “deliverability is epic” and “support goes above and beyond to help you.”

Ross Andrew Paquette, Founder and CEO of Maropost, commented on Marketing Cloud’s achievements. “Our latest G2 badges represent the voice of our customers. We built Marketing Cloud to help businesses like theirs connect with customers, scale effortlessly, and accelerate growth. Seeing our actual users rank us so highly across multiple categories proves we’re more than delivering on that promise and validates our mission to deliver a truly unified platform that seamlessly connects all aspects of commerce and marketing.”

To learn more about how Maropost can help you deliver personalized, automated marketing experiences at scale, book a demo today.

About Maropost 

Only Maropost unites the commerce and marketing tools and insights growing brands need to engage customers and scale their business. Built on unified customer data and an enterprise-grade infrastructure, Maropost offers a complete, connected suite of marketing, merchandising and search, customer service, ecommerce, and retail solutions.   

Since its founding in 2011, Maropost has made multiple appearances on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 list and G2’s leaderboard. A global company, Maropost proudly serves 5,000+ leading commerce brands across North America, Australia, and Europe, including Victoria Beckham, Sandro Paris, Untuckit, Scott Sports, James Perse, and Fujifilm. Learn more at maropost.com.  

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Xojo 2024 Release 3 Adds the Power of Preemptive Threads, Android Tablet Support

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AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Xojo, Inc., the developers behind Xojo—a powerful cross-platform development tool and programming language—proudly announce the immediate availability of Xojo 2024 Release 3. This release adds preemptive threading, a highly anticipated feature that offers significant performance improvements, Web improvements and support for Android tablets.

With over 200 new features and improvements, this new release not only offers the power of preemptive threads to Xojo users, it also includes Code Editor improvements, multiple Web updates and new Android features, including tablet support. Kem Tekinay, RegEx enthusiast and Xojo MVP, commented, “Xojo has introduced preemptive threads, and it’s a game-changer. With trademark simplicity that belies its power, this new feature will let users go in new directions for faster and more responsive apps by building on an already familiar foundation.”

New Features and Updates:
Preemptive Threading
Code Editor improvements: Row highlighting, command bar button for Standardize Format, and Syntax Help area size control
Web now uses Bootstrap v5.3.3 and Bootstrap Icons v1.11.3
Web supports adding CSS classes to controls
macOS Popovers can be resized
Windows HTMLViewer can now access camera and microphone
iOS Picture can access EXIF metadata
Android tablet support
Android improved Declare support
Android RegEx classes

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Xojo is a cross-platform development tool for building native applications for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, the web, and Raspberry Pi. Xojo is free to use for learning and development. A license is required to build most applications; building Linux Desktop and Console apps and Raspberry Pi apps is included in the Xojo IDE. Pricing begins at $99 for a single desktop platform. Building cross-platform desktop, mobile, or web applications is $399. Xojo Pro and Pro Plus packages are available from $799 and up, offering increased support and resources for professional developers. Xojo offers special packages for educators and students. For information on pricing and licensing options, please visit https://www.xojo.com/store.

About Xojo
With a passion for innovation and a commitment to empowering developers worldwide, Xojo revolutionizes the software development landscape by offering a native, cross-platform development environment. Since its inception more than 25 years ago, Xojo has fostered a vibrant community of developers united by their shared love for technology and the limitless possibilities it brings. For more information, visit Xojo at https://www.xojo.com.

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MIT Technology Review Recognizes Gogoro as a Top 15 Climate Tech Company to Watch for 2nd Consecutive Year

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MIT Technology Review’s ’15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch’ annual list recognizes companies that are developing innovative new technologies or scaling existing ones to address climate change.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Gogoro Inc. (Nasdaq: GGR), a global technology leader in battery swapping ecosystems that enable sustainable mobility solutions for cities, today was recognized by MIT Technology Review as a ’15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch’ for the second consecutive year. The announcement was made at the EmTech MIT Conference held at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MIT Technology Review’s annual list recognizes companies that are developing innovative new technologies or scaling existing ones to address climate change. To access the 2024 ’15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch’ list, visit technologyreview.com.

“Gogoro stood out for successfully deploying electric scooters and battery swapping across Taiwan and is expanding elsewhere,” said Amy Nordrum, Executive Editor, Operations, MIT Technology Review. “But also—its battery swap stations are good for the grid, because they serve as a backup power source for the Taiwan power grid.That’s why we’re featuring them for the second year running.”

“Gogoro battery swapping is transforming urban two-wheel transportation, making it smarter, more sustainable, and accessible for everyone. With over 630 million battery swaps completed, we have successfully saved more than one million tons of CO2,” said Henry Chiang, CEO of Gogoro. “We are grateful to MIT Technology Review for including us in their prestigious list for the second consecutive year. We believe that innovation is key to tackling the most pressing climate challenges of our time.”

About MIT Technology Review
Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events explain the newest technologies and their commercial, social and political impacts. MIT Technology Review derives authority from its relationship to the world’s foremost technology institution and from its editors’ deep technical knowledge, capacity to see technologies in their broadest context, and unequaled access to leading innovators and researchers.

About Gogoro
Founded in 2011 to rethink urban energy and inspire the world to move through cities in smarter and more sustainable ways, Gogoro leverages the power of innovation to change the way urban energy is distributed and consumed. Gogoro has recently been recognized with a variety of global awards including Frost & Sullivan’s ‘2024 Global Company of the Year for battery swapping for electric two-wheel vehicles’ award; and, MIT Technology Review’s 2023 and 2024 ’15 Climate Tech Companies to Watch’. Gogoro’s battery swapping and vehicle platforms offer a smart, proven, and sustainable long-term ecosystem for delivering a new approach to urban mobility. Gogoro has quickly become an innovation leader in vehicle design and electric propulsion, smart battery design, battery swapping, and advanced cloud services that utilize artificial intelligence to manage battery charging and availability. The challenge is massive, but the opportunity to disrupt the status quo, establish new standards, and achieve new levels of sustainable transportation growth in densely populated cities is even greater. Gogoro is operational in Taiwan, Philippines, Mainland China, India, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Israel, Singapore, Colombia and Nepal. For more information, visit www.gogoro.com/news and follow Gogoro on Twitter: @wearegogoro.

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