Baxter, Rob

Rob Baxter

Rob is a co-founder and principal at Vancouver Renewable Energy Cooperative which installed the first grid-tie photovoltaic system in the city of Vancouver and has since installed over 260 kW of photovoltaic
throughout BC during the past 12 years.  He is also founder and CEO of SolShare Energy, a community-owned renewable energy project in BC.

Rob has served as president of SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation) and has taught a course on solar energy for Langara College Continuing Studies. He has an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.

Rob has appeared on CityTV, Global TV, CTV and CBC discussing sustainability and energy issues.  He has also spoken at regional green building and energy conferences.

 

Rob Baxter spoke to us in September 2016.

BONUS:

We are very excited to have on display the INNOVATION in Industry™ Mobile Office. Purpose built for the Sustainability Television crew while filming the INNOVATION in Industry™ series, the mobile office also challenges our thinking around space efficiency, energy efficiency, and our creative imagination.

Sustainability Television Founder & CEO Jason Robinson, together with Rob Baxter, will be on-hand to answer your questions as you tour the unit.

Midsummer Festival

Each June we have a booth at the Midsummer Festival on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre. In addition to handing out information about our club, we also sign up new members. Everyone is invited to come out to enjoy this fun annual event. If you have time available, why not consider volunteering to help with our booth?

Christmas Party

 

In December, instead of our usual monthly dinner meeting, we have our annual Christmas party. Our guests are welcomed into the hall by the cheerful sounds of the Runeberg Choir. We have a fabulous Scandinavian Christmas dinner, followed by dancing to live music.

Monthly Dinners

Our dinner schedule for 2024 will be: Feb 14th, Apr 10th, TBD. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm and the dinner speaker starts at about 8:00pm. The dinner is Scandinavian and usually starts with herring and salmon open-faced sandwich appetizers and ends with coffee/tea and delicious Scandinavian desserts. The theme for the after dinner talk is usually business related and hopefully with a Scandinavian connection but we also schedule other speakers of interest. Two meetings of the year we have no speaker. Instead, in February we have our Annual General meeting where we discuss business for the upcoming year and elect our new board of directors. In June, we have our annual joke-telling contest and discover who, among us, is the best teller of jokes.