Canada makes a landmark $800 million commitment to social finance, purpose and innovation
The Canadian government just made an unprecedented $805 million investment to establish a Social Finance Fund.
Can Blockchain Be Used for Public Good?
Putting money directly into people’s hands, bypassing intermediaries is a huge opportunity for hundreds of millions of people around the world.
The unacceptable collateral damage of overconsumption
Whether our structurally dysfunctional economic system can ever deliver sustainability is being questioned more and more.
Report: Pollution Costs Canadians Billions
Pollution and its impacts on human health and assets cost Canadians tens of billions of dollars each year.
Is it ethical to take a luxury holiday in a ‘developing’ country?
Are we simply engaging in a new form of colonialism by which Western ideologies are being forced upon cultures through the guise of helping them to “develop"?
What Will Climate Change Bring? Look at the Irish Potato Famine.
The Great Hunger was a humanitarian disaster. Economic inequality and rampant xenophobia made it dramatically worse.
Warmer, wetter world faces lethal future
The thermometer rises, the air becomes saturated, and the warmer, wetter world turns potentially lethal.
The big hurdle that do-good companies face
It seems people don’t think companies can make a profit and support a social cause at the same time.