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What "Selma" Can Teach the Canadian Climate Movement

The movie Selma was released earlier this month to widespread critical acclaim. While the film is beautifully made and relatively true to the history it is based on, there’s another achievement that...

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Clean Money Revolution: Reinventing Power, Purpose and Capitalism

“Put your money where your heart is. Give yourself permission to invest in what you care about.”That creed is what makes investor Joel Solomon’s The Clean Money Revolution such a transformative read....

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OPINION: A Business Case for Keeping Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner

With a new Climate Change Plan just released by Queen’s Park, Ontarians will naturally look for expert and independent analysis of its merits. Until now, they could reliably turn to Ontario’s...

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OPINION: Alternative Facts in an Age of Climate Change

When one-time Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee quipped in 2015 that “a beheading is a far greater threat to an American than a sunburn,” the comment, a response to a Barack Obama speech...

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Waste Management And the Circular Economy of the North

CANADIANS DIVERT approximately nine million tonnes of organic and recyclable waste from our landfills. From coast to coast to coast, municipalities are struggling to adapt to changing consumer...

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Endangered species are not red tape

WE ARE NOW in the throes of the largest mass extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago.Let that sink in.In Ontario alone, there are 243 species currently listed...

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Being the Change

REVIEWED by Michael PolanyiAS SOMEONE WHO lives comfortably in a developed country, I struggle, as I’m sure others do, with how to live a meaningful and joyful life in a world that requires a drastic...

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System Change not Climate Change

In developing A\J’s upcoming “Invest in Change” issue, I have been thinking a lot about our economic and social systems; how they affect us and how they could be changed as we make the transition...

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Climate Activism and Corporate Sustainability in a Contemporary Climate Reality

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Business, Interrupted: A Rebuttal

This year Earth Overshoot Day was the earliest ever, falling on July 29 as the day humanity collectively used nature’s resource budget for the entire year. Scientists, environmentalists, activists, and...

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Uprooting Taxes by Planting Trees

Over recent decades, forests have been cut down at alarming rates to create space for housing and agricultural lands. While necessary to accommodate our rapidly growing world population, a balance must...

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Moonshot Investments

On the hierarchy of products, we can’t live without, a coffee-delivery drone using a mechanism to dole out caffeine to tired office workers falls pretty near the bottom of anyone’s list, especially...

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Love, Money, and City -Building

Have you ever considered the impact of investing locally? We have. 10C, a shared workspace and community hub for social enterprise, has built a placemaking project and social finance investment...

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The WTF: The Week This Friday Vol. 28

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WTF 2020

As the end of 2020 comes to a close (we made it!), I have noticed many have taken the time to reflect on the environmental wins and losses of the year. While some believe the environment has been cast...

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