Posts Tagged ‘Junxion TrustBrand’

After spending 15 years working to advance sustainability in a North American context, my partner and I are on sabbatical exploring Asia for six months. Why Asia? Because it is home to 60 percent of the world’s population and two of the fastest growing ...

As my family has travelled through India for the past seven weeks, we’ve seen a widespread public campaign called Save our Tigers that invites Indians to help protect the 1,400 or so cats that are left in the country. For a nation that views the tiger as a national symbol, it only ...

Putu, a local village guide in Keliki, Bali, stops to mop his brow and sighs, “It’s hotter than I can remember.” He takes another few steps and turns, “We’re just not used to it. The seasons seem to be all mixed up.” It’s another steamy day ...

On the heels of delivering the successful Community Connections project, Junxion continues its relationship with BC Housing with the livegreen Employee Council. The Junxion interactive and online marketing team is working with BC Housing to conceive, design and develop an employee website, intended to encourage and support BC Housing employees to become more ...

At a packed event at a downtown Vancouver restaurant with more than 100 people in attendance, Bullfrog Power officially launched its operations in BC. Bullfrog Power is an electricity provider offering low-impact, EcoLogo certified green electricity to residents and businesses across the province. By its official launch date, Bullfrog had signed ...

After speaking at Sustainable Brands Conference 2008 (SB ‘08), Peter ter Weeme has been appointed to the board of Sustainable Brands 2009, an event that brings together mega-brands, innovative businesses and thought leaders from around the globe to share sustainability ...

Hope and uncertainty. This might just be our society's current, uneasy zeitgeist. As the economy reels and one headline after another preaches gloom, we are simultaneously buoyed by a sense of hope after witnessing the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States last month. In the sustainability realm, 2008 was a ...

In response to the current economic situation, Squamish-based Howe Sound Brewery has introduced ‘Bailout Bitter’. The microbrewery describes this new, lower-cost beverage as a "bitter ale for bitter times", and is presumably paying homage to the various financial bailouts that have either already occurred or are under consideration. Although a clever strategy that is riffing off of our current ...

Peter ter Weeme is speaking at the the Sustainable Brands International in Miami Beach, Florida, December 9-11, on how retailers and manufacturers can benefit from good values and good practices. Retail sustainability initiatives have to acknowledge the tension all brands face between the business of “selling stuff” and principles of sustainability (typically, ...