Junxion News

To mark and celebrate the season, we're pleased to be launching the Junxion Global Foundation. We believe strongly in giving to causes that matter to local communities where our business operates, and to global causes that are of significance to people around the world. Our Foundation complements and extends ...

Following the merger of Junxion Strategy and Octopus Strategies in September, we are pleased to reveal our new website. You'll find more about our firm, our approach and our ideas about fueling the sustainability movement.  We also invite you to explore some recent 

Junxion Strategy is pleased to be co-presenter of the Social Enterprise Dragons 2012 event, along with Enterprising Non-Profits, JDQ Systems and KPMG. Now in its fourth successful year, the Social Enterprise Dragons event is designed to help social enterprises address a defined and critical business challenge or opportunity by awarding financial support or providing in-kind ...

Junxion Lands a Series of New Engagements Around the Globe The new Junxion Strategy, reflecting the merger of Octopus Strategies with Junxion, is just over a month old and the firm is on a growth tear.  Since early September, Junxion has landed a number of significant new project engagements around the globe.

We’re excited today to announce two of Vancouver’s most prominent mission-based consultancies are joining forces! Octopus Strategies is Swimming into a Merger with Junxion Strategy! Octopus Strategies has earned a reputation for values-driven leadership, award-winning marketing, and the development of leading brands for a long list of remarkable social enterprises and NGOs.

We're pleased to announce that Octopus Strategies, a prominent Vancouver based brand, communication and fundraising strategy firm, is merging with Junxion Strategy. Our combined company will deliver a suite of services including social purpose and sustainability strategy, brand & communication development & ...

In mid-June, Junxion Strategy Principal, Peter ter Weeme, began hosting a 13-part radio series called Green With Envy.  Joined each week by a global network of experts, Green with Envy explores the world of sustainability -- focusing on the successes, trials and tribulations of building green brands, and encouraging consumers to adopt ...

I think motorcycle riding is the perfect liberation from capitalism.  As surprising as that sounds, I’ll give you three reasons.  First because you can only take a small amount of “stuff” with you, even if you are privileged to be on a touring bike with two saddle ...

My mother never let me wear make-up.  First it was because I was too young. Then it was because she was a feminist.  Never having learned how to wear it in my formative years I have been a committed non-makeup wearer.  So, although I do indeed desire ablution products to cleanse and moisturize, I have never understood products intended to ...

McDonalds is trying to atone.  In their new full-page ad-statement, McDonalds is committing to reducing caloric content, salt content, getting rid of trans fats in the fries - and making Happy Meals healthier.  Why – because, they claim, “our customers are always changing”.  Do they mean that over the past 57 ...

Challenges for the global sustainability agenda It doesn’t seem that long ago that everything you bought was “Made in Taiwan” or “Made in Japan”. It was the era of All in the Family, Big Yellow Taxi and The Female Eunuch. Social taboos went mainstream, environmental consciousness came out of the shadows and traditional institutions began to lose influence. Our mothers drove ...

It has long been a tenant of capitalism that one’s private behavior is irrelevant to one’s professional performance.  There has been a clear demarcation between private and public behaviours, with extremely limited intrusion of the public into the private. This was not historically true to the birth of capitalism.  And it appears that we are increasingly unwilling to continue living with ...