Author: Peter Toi

A three-part series highlighting the impact of award-winning sustainability leaders.

Earth Day, April 22, 2019 AN OPEN LETTER to OUR FELLOW CANADIANS We, past and present Canada’s Clean50 Award winners, represent a wide cross section of Canadians from business, science, government and academia. We are very concerned that…

It seems almost fantastical that there is a thing we know must be done in order to save the planet and we’re worried about it being a bit pricey, but that’s how things are. In recent year climate…

There is an old joke that goes “What happens when you put 10 economists in a room?” And the punchline, such as it is, is that “You’ll get 11 opinions.” The problem with the joke is that those…

It’s fair to say that Jean Luc Lavergne, the man behind the Lavergne Group, is both a force to be reckoned with, and a partner to recycle with.  By devoting his knowledge, time and energy to proving that…

Like many great superhero origin stories, Montreal startup Carbicrete began with something of a happy lab accident. Mehrdad Mahoutian, then a PhD student (2011-2014) at McGill University, and some colleagues were working to to find a, literally, constructive…

At 25, Luna Yu, Founder and CEO of the Toronto-based biotech startup, Genecis, is something of a compostable plastics prodigy. Luna and her team have both a plan, and a business plan, to turn commercial food waste into compostable,…

“Firstly, I don’t know who nominated me or why they thought I was worthy; but I hope I’ve won a Clean50 award for being a creative procurement professional,” Soledad Reeve says, “Creativity is what I bring to my…

The Canada’s Clean50 Honour is awarded annually to the 50 individual leaders (and small teams) who have contributed the most to enhancing sustainability and clean capitalism in Canada over the prior 2 years. Now in its fifth year,…

In advance of the COP21 Conference in Paris: An open letter to Prime Minister Trudeau, Environment and Climate Change Minister McKenna, and our Premiers.