{jcomments on}I’m thrilled to have launched TheChange and to see my vision of advancing the sustainability movement locally coming to life with the help of a great team and community support. One-month post launch, I thought I’d take the time to reflect on my...
{jcomments on}Raj Patel was both charming and self-deprecating as he took the stage at the National Summit for a People-Centred Economy in Ottawa last Sunday night. Briefly addressing the crowd of about 200 in French, he apologized for his “accent...
{jcomments on}Originally published at SmallChangeFund.org This past weekend I attended the International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) conference in Tofino on the west coast of British Columbia. The richness of humanity was there in all its glory. An amazing...
A couple of months ago, I sat down with a young social entrepreneur who is growing a national nonprofit social venture. It was a great conversation that eventually drifted into the social venture definition debate. You know, the one that goes, “what exactly is a...
{jcomments on}Last Monday night I pushed my way through a large and boisterous group, made up primarily of Generation Yers (or is it Z already?) and, despite my aversion to crowds and a case of jet lag having just returned from Costa Rica the night before, I was glad...
{jcomments on} I tripped upon an interesting blog the other day, Reversing the Flow by Brita Belli in eMagazine (April 2010). In it she talks about the Global Water Network. She says “Earth Day Network’s lesser-known side project is called the Global Water Network....
