An expert panel discusses the need for a post-Covid clean reset – and the need and opportunities for Canada’s governments to simultaneously reboot the economy and build a low-carbon future for Canada,
From the stone age to bronze to iron, we are now in the age of plastics. While there are plenty of good uses for these flexible, light-weight, cheap, and varied materials, there is a massive problem from their overuse.
Each year, the average menstruating person uses and disposes of 300-425 disposable pads and/or tampons and one silicone DivaCup can replace a year’s worth of disposable products per person.
‘Business as usual’ is about to die. It may die violently, or it may evolve peacefully, but one way or another, it’s on its way out. The question for us all is, what are we going to do about it?
Last Thursday, on October 3rd, 120 business, academic, and environmental leaders from across Canada, gathered in Toronto for the 9th annual Clean50 Summit, discussing a wide range of climate solutions. Climate Policy Discussions: About 20% of the Clean50…
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,…
