Six-year-old sage offers hope for humanity (OK, he’s my son, but still…)
I have the best conversations with my kids when they’re supposed to be asleep already. As they’re lying in bed in the darkness, they relax and their minds seem to open up. It’s then that I get a glimpse of their surprising wisdom. And it gives me immense hope for the...
On Blueberries and Becoming Indigenous
Last week, under a gentle August sun, a group of five people gathered at my cottage for two days of rich conversation. We ate every meal around a picnic table on the sandy beach, looking out over the lake and mountains. In between us and the lake, circling the base...
What if Good Business Sense Doesn’t Make Sense?
I was the last of five speakers at a local business school’s Sustainable Business conference a few days ago. The experience should have left me feeling encouraged at all the good things happening across industries. But instead, it left me heartbroken. Soon, I...
Blue-Green: The True Color of Money?
Here in Quebec, we are fortunate to have thousands of lakes, and the tradition is to spend summer vacation splashing in the water at a lakeside cottage. Tragically, this tradition has been threatened in the past several years. Household use of phosphate-based lawn...
Is Sustainability Serving the Wrong Master?
I just finished reading an article about sustainable communities, in which the priorities were equity, the environment and economics. This seemed to be a rephrasing of the triple-bottom line factors of people, planet and profits. Seeing it this time raised a question:...Page 3 of 4
