Quantum Leap Needed Written by Stephan Vachon This AJ issue on local action is highly relevant in these dire times. As the pandemic is raging we collectively appreciate the importance of local communities including the value to have domestic sourced products, particularly food, and the call on each other’s civic […]

Virtual Inspiration How do you sustain a music and arts festival during a global pandemic? Written by Siobhan Mullally Marie Zimmerman is the Executive Director of the Hillside Festival, a not-for-profit music and arts festival based in Guelph, Ontario. With equality, creativity, and sustainability at the core of their mission, […]

Are You Paying Attention? We, as social media users, are one of the most profitable commodities within publicly traded enterprises. Written by Katie Kish As you scroll through your Facebook feed, you see an advertisement for a toaster oven. How strange! You were just saying yesterday that you wanted to […]

The Green Carpet Kelly Drennan from Fashion Takes Action walks the talk when it comes to sustainability. Written by Greta Vaivadaite   Kelly Drennan is a systems thinker, thought leader and disruptor devoted to making change within the fashion industry. In 2007, she founded Fashion Takes Action, out of her […]

The Musings of a Cautious Optimist  Affecting Change on a Journey to Save the World Written by Andrew Bowerbank Over the course of my career, I have come to understand a hard truth – any professional or philanthropic aspirations focused on improving our social condition are far more difficult to […]

Hungry for Change FoodShare’s Paul Taylor’s Activist Manifesto  Written by Paul Taylor I was intrigued when I saw the prompt for this essay: to write an “activist manifesto for a 17-year-old version of us; a time when we were energized and determined to make a real difference in the world.” […]

Sharing the Spotlight Connecting environmental enlightenment and economic opportunity. Written by Siobhan Mullally     Laurie Simmonds is the president and CEO of Green Living Enterprises – an impact agency that markets solutions to social and environmental issues. In her 20+ year career as an environmental entrepreneur and marketing expert, […]

A Game of Snakes and Ladders Navigating the Traps and Tricks of Politics  Written by Natasha Arsenijevich & Siobhan Mullally Glen Murray is an entrepreneur, activist, and former politician. Glen paved the way for inclusion in politics as one of the first openly gay chief magistrate 1 of any large […]

Toxic Men, Toxic Earth, Toxic Futures To start, defund the patriarchy Written by Sophia Sanniti  After a riveting presentation this February on the rise and decline of patriarchal systems by prominent American feminist economist Nancy Folbre [1], I was more than displeased to see the webinar chat had been ‘zoom […]