Rob Shirkey is the director of Our Horizon, an organization advocating for climate change warnings on gas pumps worldwide. He gave a passionate presentation earlier this month at the Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series, demonstrating with convincing enthusiasm the...
On Canada’s west coast, in an orchard on British Columbia’s Gabriola Island, a small publishing house is working to give individuals the tools to change their societies. New Society Publishers was around long before the idea of social entrepreneurship became ingrained...
We arrived in the pouring rain on a cool and breezy July afternoon. But it didn’t take long for Wanuskewin Heritage Park to envelop us in its warm embrace. A 20 minute-drive from the downtown core of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Wanuskewin —situated above Opimihaw Creek...
The year is 2002 and 22-year-old Alfa Demmellash, a Harvard junior, stands atop a hill in Kibuye, Rwanda, eight years after the 1994 genocide of almost a million people, to witness a memorial — and to observe how the Tutsi and Hutu are trying to live together again....
In this series, readers of SEE Change profile social entrepreneurs in their community More than 30 years ago, Thomas Raffa established the first of what would become many businesses. Since that time, his accounting and consulting firm, Raffa, P.C., not only...
A culinary school that trains individuals with difficulty procuring work; a social enterprise that helps low income workers and entrepreneurs find employment and build their business; a business supply company promoting sustainable operations and local purchasing....
