It’s 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: “crisis is a killer, but also a muse.”*
We are sad to share that Robert Hoffman, co-founder of whatIf? Technologies and a pioneer who has shaped our energy and emissions modelling work, passed away peacefully on June 5.
Oct. 7, 2021 UPDATE: We have completed the first round of our selection process and will not be considering further applications at this time; however, we welcome additional responses to this open call and can keep your resume on file for future opportunities. Sustainability Solutions Group (SSG) is looking for copyeditors and proofreaders to assist […]
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New Associates Petronella Tyson, Dermot McGuigan, Dr. Gabor Sass, and Melanie Jellett join the SSG Team. Petronella Tyson Petronella specialises in optimizing organisational capacity for burgeoning enterprises in social and environmental change. She is a trusted intermediary whose work has also been to broker collaborations across cultures and disciplines with potentially conflicting organisations to solve […]
Key financial tools in sustainable community development and how to use them How do you convince your Chief Financial Officer or the City Council that your triple bottom line proposal will benefit the environment, society and the economy? Mark Pezarro shares several tools and techniques to make a persuasive argument for sustainability in financial terms. This webinar focuses […]
Following the commitment of world leaders to an aspirational limit in global temperature of 1.5 degree increase at the December 2015 COP 21 negotiations (UNFCCC, 2015), it is clear that we need to dramatically change our current development paths if we are to achieve this objective. What are the next steps for Canadian governments if […]
In conversations with new recruits, with potential clients, partners, press, we are often met with confused faces puzzled by our inability to limit SSG and our potential to one area of work, one sector, one job. In a description for UBC from a couple of years ago, Director Yuill Herbert charts our trajectory, why and how we do […]
SSG is looking for two inspiring additions to our team as we expand and require additional support. Finance Coordinator and Administrator: 3 days a week* to start on Thursday 10th March 2016 Communications Specialist: 5 days a month to start Monday 14th March 2016 *Candidates in Ottawa interested in a full-time position should specify this in […]
Our next Associate webinar is an exciting and fascinating offering, a voice and perception often absent in the climate change discourse. Please tune in to hear Olive share her brilliant work, and if you can’t make it, you can listen to it online from our webinars page. (Please note this session was rescheduled after last […]
SSG’s work is carried out on unceded and unsurrendered Indigenous territories, ranging from the traditional lands of the Michif Piyii in the North to the Huilliche in the South; from Hul'qumi'num Peoples in the West to the Mi'kma’qi in the East.
SSG recognizes that land acknowledgements alone are insufficient. We are committed to educating ourselves about the lands we are on and ensuring that our work contributes to healing and decolonization.
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