Best Practices
Make Way for the CSO
In 2010, TD became the first North American based carbon-neutral bank.
A Leap in the Right Direction
Initiated at a two-day meeting last spring, the manifesto calls on Canada’s government to address issues facing our country today ranging from indigenous rights to increasing poverty to rampant inequality. However, the over-arching theme of the fifteen demands is of environmental stewardship as a means to combat our greatest threat, […]
Resilience of the Indigenous
Despite growing evidence, there are still climate change deniers refusing to believe that extreme weather conditions, retreating glaciers and rising sea levels are a reality.
Going for the Green at the Pan Am Games
Constructing unique world-class competition facilities for multisport events often leaves behind overbuilt, expensive and underused relics. With this harsh reality in mind, organizers for this summer’s Pan Am and Parapan Am Games in Toronto are taking lessons from other host cities to develop best practices for infrastructure design and construction […]
Big Brands Try Sustainability on for Size
H&M H&M was the first major retailer to establish a garment collection program to reclaim used clothes. Some donated items are currently recycled into yarn for new garments. H&M hopes to soon make clothing with 100-per-cent-recycled yarn.
The Afterlife of Clothes
I cram a new dress into my already overstuffed closet, dislodging a sweater that coils to the floor in a heap. I realize there is just no more space and recall the day my husband and I first viewed this home. “It’s a huge house,” the sales agent had beamed, […]
How the Fashion Industry is Picking Up the Threads After Rana Plaza
We can’t get enough fast fashion. Globally, we consume more than 80 billion pieces of clothing each year, many of them hyper-trendy, low-cost items that move from runway to sale rack at breakneck speed. Fashion is a trillion-dollar-a-year industry that increasingly relies on rock-bottom retail prices. The amount of made-in-Canada […]
Why You Should Ignore Canada’s Food Guide and Follow Brazil’s Instead
The Globe and Mail recently published an article about the broken state of Canada’s Food Guide. The article points to a number of things wrong with our national food guide.
Paleo Disasters and Public Policy
Researchers have recently found evidence that North America’s ancient volcanic eruptions not only dwarf those from modern times, but happened more often than you’d think. Should paleohistory repeat itself, will Canada be ready?
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