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We live in a time of great uncertainty, complexity, and unprecedented systemic challenges. Addressing complex sustainability challenges requires unprecedented collaboration and new ways of working across sectors and across scales.

The Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) is creating a circular economy in Canada in which plastic waste is kept in the economy and out of the environment. Canada Plastics Pact Partners are united, working together on achieving clear, actionable targets by the year 2025. 

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The Natural Step Canada/UWO co-op student profile: Saniya Kartayeva

Read Jones Christoffersen Ltd.

Read Jones Christoffersen (RJC) is a Canadian leading engineering company providing services in structural engineering, restoration, building design and sciences for about 60 years with currently six offices across Canada. RJC has recognized the importance of sustainability in their design and practices.

Being a candidate for Master’s in Environment and Sustainability degree from the University of Western Ontario and holding Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from Almaty State University in Kazakhstan, I had the privilege to be part of RJC’s sustainability journey and the first intern introducing them to The Natural Step (TNS) Framework. 

My responsibilities included:

Kathy Bardswick, President and CEO, The Co-operators

The Co-operators is the leading Canadian-owned multi-product insurance company. As a co-operative, the organization has shown a commitment to serving not only its members but also the communities in which it operates since its founding in 1945.

In recent years, The Co-operators has recommitted itself to operating in a more sustainable manner. The organization has undertaken what it calls its “sustainability journey,” which will result in the balanced integration of economic, environmental and social considerations into its decision making processes. According to Co-operators President and CEO, Kathy Bardswick, embarking on the journey was more of an adjustment than a complete departure from the way it’s always done business.

Ken Melamed: Mayor of the Resort Municipality of Whistler

Ken Melamed was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1954, and moved to Montreal in 1966 when he was 13. He majored in science at Dawson College (CEGEP), Quebec, graduating in 1973 before heading west, to Jasper, Alberta.

Ken arrived in Whistler in February, 1976 and fell in love with the mountains and the small community of Whistler. He started as a lift operator for Whistler Mountain and became a professional ski patroller two seasons later in 1977, a position he’s held ever since.

In 1978, Ken worked in construction in the off-season and 10 years later started his own artisian-oriented contracting business, Ken Melamed Stoneworks, creating much of the beautiful rock walls throughout the valley.

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