ForestEthics and eight other environmental organizations have just signed a historic agreement with the Canadian forest industry to conserve our precious Boreal Forest and critical woodland caribou habitat. It starts with a three-year moratorium on logging across more than 29 million hectares--an area the size of New Zealand. Now, it's time to get to work developing lasting protection proposals for the Boreal Forest, woodland caribou, and our climate.

Interactive Screen 1.0 Beautiful Lives
Program dates: August 16, 2010 - August 20, 2010

Now in its 15th instalment at The Banff Centre, Interactive Screen is the Banff New Media Institute’s flagship new media event. Its category-busting gambit is to mix a world's worth of media makers, thinkers, and movers around an open theme, and see what happens.

Letter from the Team at B Lab
April 27, 2010   

Last week, at the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, the Obama Administration announced the U.S. Government's support for B Lab's Global Impact Investing Rating System ("GIIRS"). 

GIIRS will facilitate the flow of impact investment capital to entrepreneurs who use business to address the world's most challenging problems.  

Better Business: Can a 500-Year Vision Help Save the World? (Part 2)
Huffington Post
By Julia Moulden

An interview with Joel Solomon, President and CEO of Renewal Partners.

The yearly catalogue created by Hollyhock Educational Retreat Centre and printed by Hemlock Printers was honoured this year, winning the bronze award for Most Environmentally Progressive Printing Project at the 2010 Environmental Printing Awards.

Better Business: Can a 500-Year Vision Help Save the World?
Huffington Post
By Julia Moulden

An interview with Joel Solomon, President and CEO of Renewal Partners.

Renewal2 and one of its portfolio companies Alter Eco Americas were featured in the April 21st article "Investing for Change: A new capitalism, coloured green." Written by renowned business journalist, David Ebner, the article features Renewal Partners high impact investment work and the extension of this work with the launch of the Renewal2 investment fund, a fund that focuses on the green

In April 8th Paul Richardson, Martha Burton and I joined Renewal founder Carol Newell at the Loden Hotel to accept Renewal's award for being named one of the most innovative companies in B.C.

How to Build a Values-Driven Business
Inc. Magazine
By Tamara Schweitzer
Mar 31, 2010

More start-up founders are identifying themselves as social entrepreneurs--that is, people who build organizations with an eye towards having a positive effect on the world.

ClearlySo is dedicated to connecting social businesses with one another and investors around the globe and to providing practical tools, resources and contacts to help entrepreneurs succeed and grow their companies.  On March 3rd ClearlySo in the U.K. headed by Rod Schwartz, launched its first international partner (ClearlySo Canada) at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto and is quickly adding new members from across the country.