SocialFinance.ca produces a weekly round up featuring social finance related news, insights, job openings, and events. We source the content for these round ups from Twitter, an RSS reader, and directly from our community of social finance practitioners. Below is our round up for the week of January 30.

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The 2011 Social Finance Forum, which took place over the past two days at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto, brought together investors and ventures in order to create meaningful interactions and learning opportunities to mobilize capital and inspire new ideas. This video covers some of the key events of the day.

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"CSR won't lead us to sustainability."

Kelly Baxter, Executive Director of The Natural Step Canada, spoke these words at an excellent event I recently attended through the Toronto Sustainability Speaker Series.

I was pretty taken aback. I shuffled in my seat nervously, felt blood rushing to my cheeks. I had come so far to believe in the power of CSR and its potential for solving societal problems. Jotting down her words anxiously, I wondered, "Am I completely off the mark? Is the work I'm doing taking us in the wrong direction?"

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The latest update of the Green Transition Scoreboard (GTS) was recently released, indicating that the private sector has invested over $2.4 trillion in green companies and technologies since 2007.

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If all this political talk of energy issues and the merits (de-merits) of the Green Energy Act has you wondering ‘what’s in it for me’, or perhaps you’re just keen, like so many of us, to put your investment money where your mouth is, then have I got the thing for you. After several years of development effort, TREC/SolarShare is thrilled to announce the launch of our Community Solar Bonds!

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