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Ashley Renders

    Climate Crisis/Education/Leadership/Natural Capital

    Teaching the teachers

    by Ashley Renders

    Thereโ€™s so much happening at TakingITGlobalโ€™s Toronto office, itโ€™s easy to get overwhelmed. The organizationโ€™s website says it โ€œempowers youth to understand

    2015 Future 40/Future 40/Perspectives/Q&A/Spring 2015

    Running it right

    by Ashley Renders

    Sophie Brochu used to listen to tapes of customers calling into the service line at Gaz Mรฉtro while she ran on the

    A Kenyan farmer at work in the Mount Kenya region. Photo by CIAT.
    Built Environment/Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Education/Energy/Leadership

    A plan for the planet

    by Ashley Renders

    The leader of the World Bank Group has the worthy challenge of protecting the worldโ€™s most vulnerable populations from the chaos created

    Leadership/Perspectives/Responsible Funds & Investing/Sustainable Book Reviews

    A Force for Good

    by Ashley Renders

    At first glance, I was put off by the title of John Taftโ€™s new book, A Force for Good: How Enlightened Finance

    Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Social Enterprise

    Why financial reform isnโ€™t enough to restore the publicโ€™s faith in capitalism

    by Ashley Renders

    Believe it or not, there are peopleย in the financial sectorย who are ready to shake things up. John Taft is the head of

    Energy/Leadership/Mining/Perspectives/Q&A

    First Nations-owned mining company finds silver lining to industry problems

    by Ashley Renders

    The mining industry is struggling. Junior exploration companies are desperately trying to raise money, and majors are facing volatile commodity prices paired

    Leadership/Mining/Workplace

    Homophobic culture permeates mining industry

    by Ashley Renders

    Lynne Descary has had to endure more than two decades of insults, inappropriate comments about her sexuality and assertions she has taken

    Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing

    Why investors should start asking Canadian companies to disclose their political spending

    by Ashley Renders

    When you consider the political spending habits of corporations in the United States, itโ€™s tempting to become smug about the apparent cleanliness

    Climate Crisis/Leadership/Supply Chain/Workplace

    Taking climate risks and opportunities that exist for supply chains seriously

    by Ashley Renders

    Last month, I explored how little we know about carbon emissions. When companies say they are measuring their emissions, they are usually

    Leadership

    Why happiness is an HR issue

    by Ashley Renders

    Worker happiness isnโ€™t the only driver of workplace turnover, but research shows it can affect company productivity.

    Climate Crisis/Leadership/Winter 2015

    The blame game

    by Ashley Renders

    Forty per cent of Americans donโ€™t believe that humans are causing our climate to change. That is a frustrating, absurd, and perhaps

    Mining/Responsible Funds & Investing/Supply Chain

    Can exploration companies de-risk the mining industry?

    by Ashley Renders

    A new generation of junior exploration companies is trying to fix the mining industryโ€™s social license problem. By experimenting with profit-sharing schemes

    Responsible Funds & Investing/Supply Chain/Waste

    A chemical problem

    by Ashley Renders

    The global supply chain is a massive game of hot potato. Large companies pass the buck to smaller companies, who pass it

    Climate Crisis/Leadership/Natural Capital/Responsible Funds & Investing/Supply Chain/Transportation/Waste/Workplace

    Emission impossible

    by Ashley Renders and Michael Yow

    A significant portion of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced by major companies still haven’t been measured. We have a pretty good

    Built Environment/Supply Chain

    A sawmill in the city

    by Ashley Renders

    The City of Toronto is aiming to capitalize on an untappedย natural resource.ย By installing a sawmill in one of its wood lots, the

    Climate Crisis/Natural Capital/Responsible Funds & Investing

    The need for speed

    by Ashley Renders and Michael Yow

    Companies may beย spending too much time producing glossy reports about their good deeds and not enough time giving investors the information they

    Food/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Q&A/Social Enterprise

    Vandana Shiva on the business of food

    by Ashley Renders

    Dr. Vandana Shiva is a force. In a single breath, she takes down patriarchy, industrial farming, nuclear power and corporate culture. She

    Food/Leadership/Perspectives/Voices

    Canada finds a GMO-friendly trading partner

    by Ashley Renders

    While Europe was moving closer to sealing its borders to genetically modified (GM) crops this week, Canada was inking a trade deal

    Built Environment/Energy/Report on Workplace Safety/Workplace

    Worker deaths hit all-time high in Alberta

    by Ashley Renders

    National-level data obtained by Corporate Knights shows that 2013 was the most fatal year on record for workers in Alberta, where 21

    Energy/Leadership/Mining/Perspectives/Voices

    Asking oil companies the right questions

    by Ashley Renders

    Tax transparency has received a lot of attention recently.ย  In an effort to end tax evasion via secret bankย accounts, 51 countries signed

    Supply Chain/Water

    Water pressure: no business without H2O

    by Ashley Renders

    Businesses are becoming increasingly aware that water scarcity can affect their bottom lines. A new report, โ€œFrom water risk to value creation,โ€

    Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Water

    Why Canada doesn’t have a national flood plan

    by Ashley Renders

    Most people feel reassured by the home insurance policies in their filing cabinets, assuming that any massive damage to their home will

    Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing

    Political spending in Canada still unknown

    by Ashley Renders

    The finances of Canadian corporations have come under the microscope recently, particularly when it comes to how much money they give to

    A stop sign in Hendrysburg, Southeastern Ohio.
    Energy/Leadership/Mining/Perspectives/Voices

    Don’t celebrate transparency standards yet

    by Ashley Renders

    Canadaโ€™s federal government tabled a bill last week that would require mining, oil and gas companies to disclose how much they pay

    Indiana Harbor
    Climate Crisis/Energy/Perspectives/Q&A/Waste

    Olga Bautista ready for Chicago’s city hall

    by Ashley Renders

    Imagine living in a neighbourhood that houses waste from an oil refinery, an animal processing plant, a steel mill and a plant

    The Shweeb prototype in Rotorua, NZ.
    Built Environment/Health & Lifestyle/Transportation

    Transit can’t move forward without investors

    by Ashley Renders

    You may have noticed that while everything else has adapted to advances in technology, your daily commute has stayed relatively the same.

    Transportation/Workplace

    Unemployed find immigrant status hard to drop

    by Ashley Renders

    Older workers who have lived in Canada for decades are finding that their status as โ€œimmigrantsโ€ may never fully disappear. Research released

    Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Perspectives/Voices

    Small economies, big emissions

    by Ashley Renders

    Corporate Knightsโ€™ 2014 Sustainable Asia Scorecard, released yesterday, shows that the relationship between money and carbon emissions is not as simple as

    2014 Sustainable Asia Scorecard/Built Environment/Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Fall 2014/Leadership/Waste

    Singapore: The garden city-state

    by Ashley Renders

    Singaporeโ€™s parliament unanimously passed a bill in August that will make it a criminal offence for companies to pollute its air, even

    Report on Workplace Safety/Supply Chain/Workplace

    Tracking weak links in the supply chain

    by Ashley Renders

    Most multinational companies have corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards built into their business models to help ensure that workers in their global

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