Building an economy that provides for life

It is impossible to write a blog at the end of 2020 without acknowledging the obvious — it has been a long and difficult year. The COVID-19 pandemic, along with so many other social and environmental upheavals, have laid bare just how vulnerable and precarious our lives can be. Let’s face it, we are all ready for this to be over. But does that mean we want things to return to normal? Do we really want to slip comfortably back into a world where unprecedented social and political inequalities, paired with an unrelenting climate and biodiversity crisis, continue to escalate under the banner of “business as usual”? At Ecotrust Canada we are working with our partners in rural, remote, and ...