According to the latest polls, the environment has become one of the biggest issues for Canadians this election. Many voters will be looking at party
Our planet faces an energy dilemma. We’re undergoing a large-scale transformation driven by increased industrialization, urbanization and digitization and we’re on pace to increase global
Initially, Vancouver entrepreneur David MacLaren did it because he didn’t think he had much choice. MacLaren’s cloud-based digital asset management company, MediaValet, had grown and
Hero: Seychelles’ blue bonds First, in 2007, came the “green bond,” the debt instrument that has raised hundreds of billions of dollars for projects to
Every April, about a thousand social entrepreneurs gather in Oxford, England, for the annual Skoll World Forum. Founded by Canadian Jeff Skoll, the first president
The University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law will soon launch Canada’s first joint common law and Indigenous law program, as long as it secures final
Slavery has been widely recognized as a crime against humanity. Yet nearly 70 years after it was addressed by Article 4 of the Universal Declaration
Every morning, retired biology teacher Ingrid Dorner opens her laptop to check in on 14 white storks who roam the villages, fields and forests near
Clean energy’s explosive growth is good news for the global quest to confront climate change, but its geopolitical effects might not be uniformly beneficial. This
“Given the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves to be among
This piece appeared as an editor’s note in the Winter 2017 issue of Corporate Knights Among the diplomats, corporate titans, politicians and celebrities circulating at the
A new study from Rank a Brand has found 29 of the largest corporate cotton purchasers are failing to adopt sustainable cotton policies, despite an
Hero: Campbell Soup Company In a significant break from its peers, American food processing giant Campbell Soup Company in January became the first major U.S.
An obscure group of tax experts from such countries as Azerbaijan, New Zealand, Norway and Zambia, among others, seems an unlikely focal point for a
Stuart Lombard had no obvious reason to leave his job as a venture capitalist in 2007. Times were good. As managing partner with J.L. Albright
Originally published on Ensia. Much of the stuff around us at any given moment – be it product, commodity or raw material – was once on a
Employee engagement, a term coined in the early 1990s to help measure satisfaction in the workplace, has taken on new meaning in the digital age.
Shipping container, recycled concrete pipe, or treetop – take your pick. Yes, this is an article about sustainable hospitality, and yes, the three strange options
This article was originally published on The Conversation. In October 2013, US authorities shut down Silk Road, the world’s largest cryptomarket. At the time, prosecutors
Hopes were high in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Haitian earthquake that the billions of dollars in aid money that arrived would be able
The “city of tomorrow” has been an object of fascination throughout history for artists, futurists and architects. As the centre of rapid change, cities are
In the late 1960s, Coca Cola pioneered the idea of a ‘lifecycle analysis’ by becoming one of the first major consumer-facing corporations to review the
Corporate Knights has ranked cities based on their sustainability performance for several years, but each time it has been a challenge finding data that is
If you’ve ever read reviews on Yelp.ca about a dentist, restaurant or hair salon in your neighbourhood, you’ll know that such a service is tremendously
When journalist and environmentalist Bill McKibben founded the grassroots organization 350.org, nobody had heard of the Keystone XL pipeline and few were talking seriously about
This article was originally published on the Nonprofit Chronicles. In the summer of 2013, in a remarkable development that was little noted outside of the
One day, while sitting outside my home in Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania, 12 high school students stopped by wanting to talk about wildlife. We
Last year, a University of Toronto student emailed the editors of The Varsity with a story idea about a local food service company. The student
Last month, it was reported that a fancy resort in Italy was going to start using drones – officially known as unmanned aerial vehicles –
This article originally appeared on the Future Food 2050 website. As Electrolux design director Thomas Johansson heads off to his Stockholm office in the morning,
