SSG Wins Environmental Initiative of the Year Award
SSG was awarded the Environmental Initiative of the Year Award by Coâoperatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) for our work introducing carbon budgeting to municipalities in Canada.
SSG was awarded the Environmental Initiative of the Year Award by Coâoperatives and Mutuals Canada (CMC) for our work introducing carbon budgeting to municipalities in Canada.
Itâs hard to stay hopeful in a world where the doomsday clock continues to tick ever closer to the annihilation point (!). Yet, as revolutionary cooperators from the DisCo (distributed cooperative) movement have aptly observed: âcrisis is a killer, but also a muse.â*Â
Looking backward and forward With the start of the New Year we reflect on how we navigated the year past and what we have to look forward to in 2023. 2022 saw us creating new models, bringing on a host of new faces, and starting projects in new places (Chile! Argentina! Uruguay!). Two decades on, […]
You may have noticed that we sign off every SSG Newswire with ââcooperatively yoursââ but what does that mean and why? Itâs a nod to how weâve structured ourselves as a worker cooperativeâowned and operated by our worker membersâand how critical co-ops are to climate action. As organizations owned by the people they benefit, the […]
In mid-July, SSG Co-founder and Principal Yuill Herbert was featured in the Green Economy Heroes Podcast with Dianne Saxe, an environmental lawyer and the former Environmental Commissioner of Ontario.
The Conference of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation is happening in Vancouver from November 2nd-5th.  SSG is a proud worker cooperative. We are pleased to attend the conference and help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the CWCF & CoopZone. This conference will be a great opportunity for participants to meet, share ideas, and build networks in […]
Sustainability Reporting for Co-operatives: A Guidebook, prepared by SSG for the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA), explores the different types of reporting frameworks used by co-ops globally, the process of developing a chosen framework and how a co-op can then communicate results to members and interested stakeholders. The Guidebook also provides guidance on how co-operatives can track […]