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Lloyd Alter

Climate Crisis

Living the 1.5 Degree Lifestyle

by Lloyd Alter

New book says individual climate action matters more than ever – when combined with political action, regulation and education

Book Review/Climate Crisis/Spring 2021

Bill Gates’s climate fixes don’t add up

by Lloyd Alter

While Microsoft’s co-founder should have a head for numbers, his latest book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, fails on climate math

Book Review/Climate Crisis/Energy/Fall 2015/Food/Leadership/Perspectives

When the carbon bubble bursts

by Lloyd Alter

Poor Jeff Rubin. As chief economist at CIBC World Markets, he predicted in 2008 that oil would be $200 a barrel and

Book Review/Food/Health & Lifestyle/Summer 2015

For the love of cows

by Lloyd Alter

It’s that time of year when many of us like to fire up the barbecue and toss some steaks or burgers on

Book Review/Climate Crisis/Education/Perspectives/Spring 2015

Book review: Carbon Black

by Lloyd Alter

It’s two weeks to deadline. Corporate Knights’ editor-in-chief Tyler Hamilton pings me, asking what book I’m planning to review. I ponder as I pace the

Book Review/Energy/Natural Capital/Perspectives/Winter 2015

It’s a jungle out there

by Lloyd Alter

This is exciting. Why read dry business books when you can pick up the equiva­lent of an unputdownable John Grisham-style thrill read?

Book Review/Climate Crisis/Fall 2014/Leadership/Natural Capital/Perspectives

A pivotal moment for business

by Lloyd Alter

Andrew Winston’s The Big Pivot is most definitely a business book, “intended to be relatively short, but still provide a solid roadmap

Book Review/Fall 2013/Food/Perspectives

Waking the frog

by Lloyd Alter

In his new book, Waking the Frog, Tom Rand tackles the question of why we, like the metaphorical frog in the boiling pot, are just

Garbage pickers in Payatas, Philippines. Photo by Kounosu
Spring 2014/Waste

Scrap culture

by Lloyd Alter

Every Jewish family that’s been in North America since before WWII has the scrap business in its genes. A hundred years ago,

Illustration by Dave Murray
Book Review/Connected Planet/Perspectives/Winter 2014/Workplace

Embracing work with purpose

by Lloyd Alter

Are we at the tipping point of a new economy? Aaron Hurst thinks so. He is the founder of the Taproot Foundation

Book Illustration by Robert Hunter
Clean Tech/Summer 2013/Waste

A world without waste

by Lloyd Alter

A decade ago, William McDonough and Michael Braungart wrote Cradle to Cradle, a book that environmentalist David Suzuki called “groundbreaking” and a “Bible

density Illustration by Julianna Brion
Book Review/Built Environment/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Spring 2013

Does dense equal sustainable?

by Lloyd Alter

It has become accepted wisdom that density is a good thing, as part of the notion that cities should grow, adapt and

Book Review/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Spring 2013/Supply Chain/Waste

The want of more

by Lloyd Alter

In John Huston’s classic film Key Largo, Humphrey Bogart asks Edward G. Robinson, playing gangster Johnny Rocco, what it is he wants. It’s

Illustration by James Hindle
Book Review/Climate Crisis/Energy/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Winter 2013

The energy of slaves

by Lloyd Alter

It is not a coincidence that the movement to abolish slavery started in nations that, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, didn’t need

Book Review/Clean Tech/Fall 2012/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Supply Chain/Waste

An energy crisis of our own

by Lloyd Alter

According to some mainstream media reports, America will soon be “awash in oil.” Natural gas, meanwhile, seems to be pouring out of

Illustration by Pete Ryan
Book Review/Natural Capital/Perspectives/Responsible Investing/Social Enterprise/Summer 2012

The hard sell

by Lloyd Alter

The most fascinating thing about Bob Willard’s The New Sustainability Advantage is that it is not really a book. It’s more like

Book Review/Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Perspectives/Spring 2012

The Conundrum

by Lloyd Alter

David Owen has a formula: first, write provocative articles in The New Yorker magazine with a clever but superficial core argument. Second,

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Book Review/Climate Crisis/Leadership/Perspectives/Winter 2013

Fools rule

by Lloyd Alter

There are two narrative arcs in William Marsden’s recent book, Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change. In one, we

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