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David LePage

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From Greenwash to Socialwash?

We have every reason to be excited as the emerging social enterprise sector attains higher and higher levels of recognition and accomplishment.  The collaborative energy increases. The business opportunities keep growing. We’re witnessing new levels of local and collective business success and social impacts.

Peter Pula

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Exploring Future Possibilities for Business and Society: Ken Gauthier

As part of Social Enterprise Day in British Columbia, Urban Systems went public with a Social Enterprise pilot project of its own, Urban Matters.

Otto Scharmer

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How the Common Will Inspires Unlikely Victories over Special Interest Groups

Something interesting is happening in Central Europe. I just returned from Berlin where I attended a global gathering on Banking for a Better World. The meeting was sponsored by the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, which comprises 22 banks operating with social and ecological responsible banking principles in everything they do.

Logan Yonavjak

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How a Nutrient Economy Can Save Our Farmers, Our Health and Our Environment

It is unlikely that the average American knows anyone who farms full-time, unless they visit a farmer’s market or buy directly from a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program.

Farming with a Mission
Clear Sky Center, a meditation and retreat centre near Cranbrook, B.C., is developing a farming social enterprise which includes a cold-climate food forest. Food forests are resilient, diverse systems that have the potential to produce harvests from snowmelt to snow fall each year. Read more.
 

Economy

New Research to Convene Conversation on Corporate Social Innovation
KPMG, Volans, Social Innovation Generation research social innovation opportunities for business

KPMG, UK-based consultancy Volans and Toronto’s Social Innovation Generation (SIG) are collaborating to research the opportunities for the emerging field of corporate social innovation.

Credit Union Trains on Vision, not Job
First Cold-Climate Food Forest to Offer Farming Solutions
Aki Energy Answers Opportunity to Create Prosperity
‘Namgis First Nation Launches First Land-based Atlantic Salmon Farm
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Journalism

BCCA Launches News Program to Share Co-op Movement’s Successes
‘Sharing successes is a positive way to engage more people in the effort to bring about social change’

The British Columbia Co-operative Association (BCCA) has a lot of member success stories and important information to share with its members, partners, stakeholders and the public, and the organization, which has more than 80 B.C. member co-ops and credit unions, is launching a news program to aggregate these stories.

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Epilepsy Ontario Applauds News Service for Its Work During Crisis

Feature: Biomimicry

Biomimicry's Newest Frontier: What can Nature Teach our Systems?
Nature has system resiliency, transformation expertise

Bioinspiration, biomimicry, biomimetics, biophilia. While there are various terms to describe it, the basic notion of nature as genius/genii with a seemingly infinite basket of solutions for our world's problem is a sexy topic these days. But can it be an economic game-changer?

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B.C. Election Primer on Social Innovation

In the in the lead-up to the British Columbia election May 14, the B.C. Partners for Social Impact have created a two-page primer highlighting the potential for social innovation to support a vibrant B.C. Read the introduction to social innovation here.

Briefs

Co-op Association Tackles Youth Financial Illiteracy

The Ontario Co‐operative Association has created a new resource and program to teach youth financial literacy. The program promotes budgeting and saving as well as credit unions. The association is partnering with credit unions to bring the program into elementary and high schools across the province. More

Toronto Urban Farm Gets Financial Boost

A Toronto-based fund for youth-led social innovation projects announced this month it is lending $10,000 to an urban farm and farming network, Fresh City. A two-year-old operation, Fresh City has proven the financial sustainability of its business model, according to the Youth Social Innovation Capital Fund. Fresh City produces and delivers fresh, local, and organic groceries to subscribers. YSI is now launching a new call for applications for debt financing and support for youth social enterpreneurs. More

Editorial

New Narrative for Business Accelerating

The so-far slow moving story of business evolving into a way to organize human effort explicitly for the good of society and planet has been narrated in these pages for a little over a decade. We are a long way from those first whispers of social capital and corporate social responsibility.

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