The sustainability challenges facing Canadian business leaders and water experts are unsurprisingly similar:
“How can companies design resilient sustainability programs that can survive leadership changes, economic downturns, political shifts and other setbacks?”
How can Canadian municipalities become ideal water sustainable cities--soon?
Two new reports, Blue City: The Water...
If you had to pick just four areas of social/environmental challenge in your country for which to build prototype innovation solutions, what would you choose? It sounds exciting, but when forced to narrow your choices to a small number of priority topics of workable scope and definition, the process could take some time.
The oil sands/pipeline debate carries on in Canada at the start of 2014. Two environmental protesters slipped past security to deliver a climate change message to Prime Minister Stephen Harper on stage as he discussed resource development and environment at an event in Vancouver this week.1
When I first reported on Farm Credit Canada’s (FCC) Drive Away Hunger Campaign in the spring, the agricultural lender was aiming to collect five million pounds of food to be distributed through Food Banks Canada. In the end, the 10th anniversary campaign, which wrapped up recently, outdid the target and increased donations by 108 percent over last year.
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - “We are running this planet in a very illogical way – we are on a collision course with a set of global shifts that very few companies understand and very few are managing effectively” - Gil Friend. 
(3BL Media/Justmeans) - It’s not often in the middle of the workday, or at a business conference, you see a circle of colleagues in suits participating in a session of meditation practice. But that is exactly the type of activity some organizations, such as Google, are beginning to use to empower and de-stress employees. How much can this practice contribute to shifting organizations to the next low carbon economy?
Bloom Centre Conference to be held Oct 1 & 2, Mississauga, ON
How can mindfulness practice be applied to systemic change for sustainability? What is the role of the CFO in assessing sustainability risks and opportunities in the firm? Answering questions such as these with practical tools, paths and information is at the core of the upcoming Sustainability Applied: Unlocking Hidden Value conference to be held October 1-2 in Mississauga, Ontario. 
A low carbon apartment complex prototype. A social mobile app that allows homeowners with smart meters to compare their energy use with other consumers. Small scale, energy efficient, independent homes that sustainably add density to neighbourhoods. These Canadian innovations were awarded top honours at a gala event honouring innovations in home energy efficiency. The Scotiabank EcoLiving Awards are a cornerstone of Scotiabank’s consumer-facing EcoLiving Program, and are designed to inspire consumers to reduce...
The British Columbia government has just made its final written submission to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel, and it is asking for more information and assurances before it can support the project. The main concern cited by the BC government in its rejection of the proposal is lack of detail around marine and land oil spill response. "Northern Gateway has said that they would provide effective spill response in all cases. However, they have presented little evidence as to how they will respond," said Environment Minister Terry Lake in a news...