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Be kind, reward generously, support good and healthy living. Seek and encourage the best in one another. For whatever unites us is greater than whatever divides us!

This is just some of the philosophy behind a manufacturer of soap and body care products.  Dr. Bonner's has been producing soap since 1858.  It came of age during the 60's and has grown to become the third largest B Corporation with over $100 million is sales last year.

https://www.drbronner.com/

Due to the fact that we were busy with the Global #ClilmateStrike in our hometown, we present this repeat program.

The Joyce Centre for Partnership & Innovation is the cornerstone of a record-setting $54.25 million renewal of technology labs and classrooms. The five-level centre is also a showcase in environmental sustainability as the region's first net-zero energy institutional building.

With solar panels on the roof and high-efficiency lighting and heating, purchasing offsets, and by educating students to use less energy, the building's energy use is close to equal that being generated.

The Government of Canada's $20 million investment in the centre is the single largest federal infrastructure funding in Mohawk College's 50-year history. Now that construction and renovations are complete, enrollment in technology programs will grow from 3,500 to 4,500 students and applied research activity will increase by 50 per cent.

New and resurgent solutions are democratizing how we produce, consume, govern, and solve social problems. The maker movement, collaborative consumption, the solidarity economy, open source software, transition towns, open government, and social enterprise are just a few of the movements showing a way forward based on sharing.

The sharing transformation shows that it's possible to govern ourselves, build a green economy that serves everyone, and create meaningful lives together. It also shows that we can solve the world's biggest challenges — like poverty and global warming — by unleashing the power of collaboration.

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation.

https://www.shareable.net/

https://www.shareable.net/the-response-how-puerto-ricans-are-restoring-power-to-the-people/

World Resources Institute (WRI) is a global research organization that spans more than 50 countries, with offices in the United States, China, India, Brazil and more. Its work focuses on seven critical issues at the intersection of environment and development: climate, energy, food, forests, water, cities and the ocean.

We spoke with Ryan Sclar, co-author of two reports on the adoption of electric buses to existing public transit systems. Ryan is the Urban Efficiency and Climate Research Analyst at the WRI Ross Center For Sustainable Cities.

https://www.wri.org/

Based in Calgary, Canada, the ARC Energy Research Institute conducts economic and investment analysis for ARC Financial Corp. and its stakeholders. ARC Financial is an employee-owned, private equity investment management firm specializing in the Canadian energy industry.

Jackie Forrest actively monitors emerging strategic trends related to energy. She is an author and sought after public speaker with 20 years of experience in the energy industry. Jackie is the host of the ARC Energy Ideas podcast, a weekly show that explains the latest trends and news in Canadian energy and beyond.

https://www.arcenergyinstitute.com/

Author and filmmaker Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of Local Futures. A pioneer of the 'new economy' movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. She is the producer and co-director of the award-winning documentary 'The Economics of Happiness'.

Helena has just released a new book, 'Local is Our Future', connecting the dots between our social, economic, ecological and spiritual crises, revealing how a systemic shift from global to local can address these seemingly disparate problems simultaneously.

https://www.localfutures.org

2015 to 2019, Dr. Dianne Saxe was the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), an office that has since been abolished. She was appointed unanimously by all MPPs to report to the Legislature on Ontario's environmental, energy and climate performance, and to be the guardian of the Environmental Bill of Rights (EBR).

During her term, she improved the effectiveness of the Environmental Bill of Rights, increased public understanding of the urgency of climate change, and issued highly praised reports on a wide range of environmental, energy and climate topics.

https://saxefacts.com/

Climate Action Network Canada – Réseau action climat Canada (CAN-Rac Canada) is a coalition of more than 100 organizations across the country.

CAN-Rac Canada is the only network in the country that brings labour, development, faith-based, and Indigenous groups together with the key national, provincial, and territorial environmental organizations working on climate change. The network plays a critical role in helping Canadian organizations understand and respond to climate change impacts and policies, across Canada and around the world, to coordinate efforts for greatest impact.

Catherine Abreu, Executive Director of CAN-Rac, is one of the world's 100 most influential people in climate policy as named by Apolitical in 2019.  Catherine has over 15 years of experience campaigning on environmental issues including 7 years in the heart of the global climate movement.

Throughout various communities across America, there are plenty of opportunities in need of funding in order to come to fruition. Examples include properties requiring capital to become productive again or entrepreneurs working on promising businesses that have no access to capital to grow.

There are plenty of citizens that wish they could make meaningful private equity investments locally, but have no outlet to do so.

Kwaku Osei is the CEO of Cooperative Capital. He was previously an Executive Associate at Rock Ventures where he worked on special projects with Dan Gilbert and served as CEO to Project X LLC, a $1MM+ tech spinout of Rock Ventures.

Scientists and foodies have been searching for alternatives to traditional, animal protein-based food.  Land use, greenhouse gas emissions and obesity are touched on during this discussion about eating insects instead of beef, pork and poultry.

While many get squeamish at the idea, entomophagy — people eating insects — is a possible way to ensure a sustainable and secure food supply for the eight billion of us on the planet.

David Waltner-Toews, a veterinary epidemiologist from Kitchener, Ont., releases his latest book, Eat the Beetles! In it, Waltner-Toews criss-crosses the world, foraging in Japan, visiting insect farms across Canada and sampling insect-focused dishes in Australia and France – to make the case for greater insect consumption.