Tom speaks with Beyond Crisis in Toronto on the huge potential and urgent need to accelerate clean technologies to market, tackling climate change while creating massive social and economic opportunity. This rich and information-packed piece explores the amazing innovation being led by cleantech entrepreneurs today in the race to replace fossil fuel energy, catalyzing a global "cleantech revolution". "It happens to be true that we can run our industrial economy better on renewable energy than we can on fossil fuels: but it will take a transition." "We're trying to rebuild in a generation something that took five generations to build in the first place - and we're trying to do that in the face of very established, very powerful economic forces that benefit from the existence of that system." "The world is going to decarbon whether one's denialist uncle cares about it or not - it's happening, and Canada has a choice." Tom is a well-known cleantech investor, advisor, speaker, author and entrepreneur, as well as Managing Partner of ArcTern Ventures, which provides capital and other resources to help accelerate promising cleantech companies to market. Cleantech companies mentioned in the video include: ArcTern Ventures: www.arcternventures.com/ Hydrostor: www.hydrostor.ca/ Morgan Solar: morgansolar.com/ Woodland Biofuels: www.woodlandbiofuels.com/ Tom's site can be found at: www.tomrand.net/ For more content from Climate Matters, follow Beyond Crisis through our YouTube channel or on our blog at www.BeyondCrisisBlog.com Full Climate Matters video attributions at: www.beyondcrisisblog.com/climate-matters-video-attributions.html @BeyondCrisisPCM #SmartOnClimate

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