About
Why go green?
• It is an opportunity to become a leader by implementing changes before government legislation or social pressures impose them.
• Businesses need value added options more than ever: greening is a worthwhile investment in the future of communities at home and abroad.
• Research has proven workplace sustainability to pay dividends in health, good will, motivation, efficiency and productivity.
• While simultaneously benefitting society and the environment, investments in energy-efficiency often pay for themselves within a few years, after which they are as good as income.
Ian Ward
Ian Ward founded sustainable.Agency in 2009 with partner Sarah Rennie out of a personal conviction that business can and must play the leading role today in creating the society of tomorrow.
A reporter who has completed the Global Reporting Initiative certified training program, he is a also graduate of the journalism and geography, planning and the environment department at Concordia University where he was involved in the institution's green shift. He is currently completing a professional graduate degree at the Eco-consulting research chair.
He has spent close to six years writing and mobilizing various actors around sustainability, and helped to found Greening Duluth, a non-governmental organization in early 2008.
Sarah Rennie
Sarah Rennie specializes in visual communications and transparency. She is currently completing her doctorate degree in photography, social change and politics of affect at Carleton University with the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. She holds a Master's in Public Policy and Bachelor's in Human Geography from Concordia University.
She has worked for the African Institute for Corporate Citizenship in South Africa as a Communications Coordinator and intern through the Emerging Leaders in Governance and Communications Programme at the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).