A Birmingham social enterprise that has supported nearly 1300 people with convictions has secured £100,000 of social investment to launch a new ethical recruitment agency and refurbish its training academy. New Leaf Initiative, which is based in Allcock Street in...
[For this article, SEE Change was delighted to collaborate with the students of the Social Innovation class, taught by Catherine Pearl, at Mount Royal University’s Bissett School of Business.] In this year’s Social Innovation class we had the opportunity...
One of my biggest pet peeves is plastic waste. Every Wednesday I place my blue bin filled with recyclable plastics on the side of the curb, but I have no idea what happens after they are collected. It is a mystery. I suspect much of it goes into a landfill, which is...
For more than two decades, Ted Oakes has been producing natural history wildlife films for the BBC, including David Attenborough’s Life series. The Ottawa born, Oxford-educated zoologist and filmmaker strongly believes that, “protecting nature starts now”....
The circular economy is not a new idea. In 1987, the United Nations published the Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development: Our Common Future, which called attention to the global issue of diminishing natural resources and introduced the concept...
After attending a talk on homelessness in Los Angeles six years ago, Rachel Sunday felt that she needed to help. “I wanted to do something,” she says, “but I didn’t know what.” Sunday, a resident of LA’s Westchester neighborhood, thought about it for a couple of...
