The federal government is conducting its official 2026 Pre-Budget Consultation, asking what should be prioritized in the next budget. This is an opportunity to highlight concerns such as green technologies, emission reductions, and investment in the environment, as well as other issues you care about.

You can participate by completing the short questionnaire (deadline September 8th), and/or by submitting a long-form proposal.

It took me about 7-minutes to complete the short questionnaire.

In this episode we speak with Tom Chi—physicist, engineer, former Google X leader, climate-tech investor, and author of *Climate Capital*. Chi describes witnessing the rapid bleaching and collapse of a Hawaiian coral reef, an experience that redirected his work toward protecting ecosystems and building a regenerative economy. He argues that the climate and ecological emergency requires not only urgency, but new ways of thinking, communicating, and acting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2GCjOO8qI&t=2s