In collaboration with leaders and experts from industry, government and civil society our teams are working on ‘Five Big Bets’ that have enormous potential to contribute to a clean and prosperous economy, as we collectively develop effective and scalable solutions to climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution.

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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On the Edges of Our Seats, and of Our Learning

This past week, we closed the first Call for Expressions of Interest for the newly formed Sustainability Transition Lab program at The Natural Step Canada. It has been an amazing learning opportunity.

We are receiving feedback that our approach to the Expression of Interest process itself is creative and is unlike other RFP or proposal submissions. Since releasing our Call for Expressions of Interest, we have been speaking with candidates, hosting their questions, and immersing ourselves in the depths of their ideas. We’ve attempted to understand the change agents behind the ideas, their cultures, their passions, and why they are willing to put such skin in the game here.

A Sustainable Society is Possible – Chad Park’s post-Accelerate Reflections

“Growing complexity means that trends and data are amplifying and meshing at the speed of light, and those who are able to see the patterns that are emerging from this clustering of ideas and events will be those who can pull transformational futures into the present.”

Frank Spencer – Turning Wicked Problems Into Wicked Opportunities

Will complexity kill us or save us?

I was supposed to be in Calgary and Banff this past weekend. Instead, I’m staying in Ontario as the event I was supposed to attend was cancelled. As I watched the shocking images emerge of flooded cities in my native province, the scale and complexity of our society’s collective sustainability challenge was top of mind once again. So too was the fact, known but often forgotten, that we are part of nature – and tiny in relation to its powerful forces.

We know more of this is coming. The challenges we face are daunting indeed.

Justmeans: Canadian Conference Explores Transformational Collaboration for Systems Change

The blog Canadian Conference Explores Transformational Collaboration for Systems Change was originally posted by Robyn Hall of Justmeans.

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The Natural Step Canada will be gathering sustainability leaders next week to learn about and experience the collaboration needed for transformational change. Over two hundred participants are expected in Guelph, Ontario from June 10 to 11 for the Accelerate: Collaborating for Sustainability Conference

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