GIDT Blog

Truth and Reconciliation: Remembering, Not Celebrating

Each year on September 30, we wear orange shirts to honour survivors of residential schools, the children who never came home, and their families and communities. But the meaning of this day often gets lost. Last year, I seen many posts from organizations and corporations treating Truth and Reconciliation Day

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Addressing Bill 5: Indigenous Stewardship Is the Way Forward

Indigenous communities are not anti-development. We are building models of development that honour the land, respect Indigenous rights, and support strong, healthy futures for all. Across the country, First Nations are leading collaborative, values-driven approaches to land and resource stewardship. Projects like GIDT’s Critical Relationships, led by the Tahltan Nation,

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True Value Accounting and Decentralized Finance

Valuation for Life Economies Accounting is an essential tool of business for measuring and reporting on progress and providing the information needed by decision-makers. In order to support regenerative, life economies, accounting needs to evolve to include more than just value that can be priced in financial markets. True Value

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What are Life Economies?

Life Economy – An Economy of Service to Life Life is an incredibly beautiful, awe-inspiring and highly complex system, interconnected and interdependent. We are all one with the life system that is this planet Earth. From the waters that flow through our veins and the rivers we walk along, to

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Truth and Reconciliation

A beautiful Indigenous grandmother said, “Truth is the foundation of all life.” Without truth we are not free, the basis for society cannot exist and our relationship with ourselves, one another and our natural world becomes disconnected and dis-eased. Since the beginning of time, truth has been seen as the

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