The Sustainable Procurement Fellowship (SPF), hosted by CBSR in partnership with HP Canada, is a Clean 50 Award-Winning Top Project for 2024. This unique program offers 9 bi-weekly virtual workshops led by industry experts and includes...
Successive innovation can be encouraged, write MaRS Discovery District CEO Yung Wu, through capital gains tax breaks to founders who reinvest proceeds of high-tech wins back into future startups. This contributed content originally appeared in Toronto Star24 August...
The Circular Innovation Council and MaRS Discovery District have signed a new partnership agreement to accelerate market adoption of low carbon and low waste solutions by connecting cleantech and procurement agendas. 19 September 2022 The climate crisis has been...
This contributed content originally appeared in GreenBiz7 June 2022By Coro Strandberg Society has started the long march toward living in harmony with nature’s realities. There is no other way forward. And where goes society, so goes the economy. As concluded in the...
Procurement Assistance Canada (PAC) Ontario Region On June 15-16, 2022, Procurement Assistance Canada (PAC) Ontario Region will host the 7th Annual Doing Business with Government Information Clinic. The two-day free event will highlight federal procurement...
This contributed content originally appeared in a Manitoba Heavy Construction Association supplment in the Winnipeg Free Press 9 April 2022By Jo-Anne St. Godard and Paul Shorthouse 12 APRIL 2022 The construction, renovation and demolition (CRD) sector...
Sustainability has become the burning issue that businesses need to address in the wake of the 2020 Covid disruption, and technology and services providers are responding rapidly to fill gaps in current operating models. The shift in attention is not just hot air....
Here’s something to ponder if you’re venturing out on a summer road trip: Is it possible to build greener streets and highways, not in terms of what’s driven on them, but rather the materials used to construct these most ubiquitous forms of transportation...
The sustainability race is on. Corporations, investors, and governments worldwide have made ambitious commitments to reduce their operations’ negative environmental and social impacts. But there’s a problem: New solutions will inevitably trigger bottlenecks for the...
Covid-19 pandemic has brought global economies to a standstill and has created challenges to a variety of sectors including housing, building and infrastructure. Many business and government organisations have experienced some form of supply chain disruption – either...
Owning things used to be simple. You went to the store. You paid money for something, whether it be a TV, clothes, books, toys, or electronics. You took your item home, and once you paid it off, that thing belonged to you. It was yours. You could do whatever you...
When it comes to Enterprise Resource Planning, the optimal supply chain was built on the ‘just-in-time’ model, comprising uber-efficient, connected blocks that deliver what businesses need, right when they need it, in order to complete the next step of the...