
Change the world — love your labour!
Work. It’s what we do. Recent estimates suggest we spend 100,000 hours of our adult lives working. At its best, it gives us meaning and a sense of achievement. Paradoxically, it gives us freedom. Work helps us feed our fami ....

What the world needs now? Grads with ‘tude
As graduation season winds down, we have the chance to reflect on a number of inspirational speeches by a diverse group of thought leaders.

Why do we buy stuff that can’t be recycled?
There was a bit of a flap this week in Toronto when it was revealed that up to 20% of the debris put in the recycling stream actually ends up in landfill because it can’t actually be recycled. While some of the debris i ....

Does anything you do really matter?
We came across this Opinion piece in the NYT recently, and thought it deserved a combo platter of criticism and praise.
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H2(uh)O!
It’s been an interesting summer for weather. We’ve had more heat than we can remember, but only a fraction of our normal rainfall. This can be said for a lot of North America and Europe as well. Perhaps it’s because of ....

What’s your excuse?
By Guest Blogger: Theresa Diederich Someone far wiser than me once said that in order to change you have to first run out of excuses. This blog is an examination of excuses, of the comforting reasons we tell ourselves that ....