The story behind Rockstar Café is one that coincides with releasing my inner Rockstar.

Your undergraduate experience is about discovering what kind of person you are. It’s about identifying your unique gifts, amalgamating your passions, and meeting as many amazing people as you can. These things will lead to you having a more concrete idea of the kind of person you are leaving school, and what you want your life to be about.

Every student enters university or college as just a number. You can post good grades, get a solid internship if you’re opportunistic, and graduate with honours and a significant other. My path wasn’t that straightforward.

The article Changing the Way Non-Financial Performance Is Measured, and Thus Managed, in Pursuit of Future-Fit Businesses written by Geoff Kendall, Co-Founder and CEO of 3D Investment Foundation, was originally published on sustainablebrands.com. The Future-Fit Business Benchmark is a project that is co-led by The Natural Step Canada and 3D Investment Foundation.

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The article 3 myth-busting sustainability strategies written by Chad Park, Executive Director of The Natural Step Canada, and Brendan Seale, Sustainability Manager for IKEA Canada, was originally published on INMA.

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The term “sustainability” has been vaguely defined and is inappropriately overused. But actually practicing sustainability as an ongoing journey in a way that doesn’t erode social and ecological systems — while doing more good for society as a whole — is something all organisations should strive for.

From retailers to telecoms, insurance companies to oil and gas firms, most major businesses now have a sustainability strategy and function in their organisations.

The same is true in other sectors as well. Most universities are adopting sustainability policies and implementing sustainability programmes on their campuses. Most municipalities (in Canada at least) have community sustainability plans.

The approaches to sustainability range from window dressing to deeply embedded drivers of innovation. Whatever the approach, it’s clear that something important is happening.

Yet, despite having its fair share of heroes, villains, and brand-name players, this dynamic movement gets very little media attention. Why?

Tricia Enns took place in the IMPACT! Sustainability Champions Training program in Ottawa in 2013 and is the creator of Branch Out Bakery.

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How do we make goals when we don’t know what goals we want most?
How does one choose to pursue an idea without knowing the results?

These are two questions that constantly encircled (and still do) my head when I first started Branch Out Bakery.