Given the latest UN SDG report, warning that no Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are on track for achievement within the preestablished time frame, a new study by impak Analytics offers a timely and insightful look at the situation on the ground, and the...
“Who are cities for?” That’s the fundamental question – posed by Leilani Farha, UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing – that drives Push, an eye-opening documentary from award-winning director Fredrik Gertten that had its North American premiere at Toronto’s...
It’s easy to eat a chocolate bar without much thought as to where it came from. While the taste of chocolate is sweet, however, often the conditions in which cacao is harvested are the opposite. Today, there are over 100 million child labourers working in agriculture...
On March 12, the Second Annual Youth Innovation Summit brought 14 young social entrepreneurs from across Canada to Parliament Hill to share their innovative ideas on how to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More specifically, they were here to...
The UK’s first food waste supermarket has recently opened in Leeds. Described by its founders as the world’s first ‘anti supermarket’, the organization sells produce that would otherwise be thrown away. The supermarket is operated by volunteers from The Real Junk Food...