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...
View ArticleClean 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....
View ArticleOPINION: 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...
View ArticleOPINION: 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...
View ArticleWaste 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...
View ArticleEndangered 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...
View ArticleBeing 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...
View ArticleSystem 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...
View ArticleClimate Activism and Corporate Sustainability in a Contemporary Climate Reality
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View ArticleBusiness, 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...
View ArticleUprooting 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...
View ArticleMoonshot 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...
View ArticleLove, 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...
View ArticleWTF 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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