New book says individual climate action matters more than ever – when combined with political action, regulation and education
While Microsoft’s co-founder should have a head for numbers, his latest book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, fails on climate math
Poor Jeff Rubin. As chief economist at CIBC World Markets, he predicted in 2008 that oil would be $200 a barrel and gas would be
It’s that time of year when many of us like to fire up the barbecue and toss some steaks or burgers on the grill. So
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 modernist concrete block and
This is exciting. Why read dry business books when you can pick up the equivalent of an unputdownable John Grisham-style thrill read? Even better when
Andrew Winston’s The Big Pivot is most definitely a business book, “intended to be relatively short, but still provide a solid roadmap to a new
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 sitting and doing
Every Jewish family that’s been in North America since before WWII has the scrap business in its genes. A hundred years ago, 25 per cent
Are we at the tipping point of a new economy? Aaron Hurst thinks so. He is the founder of the Taproot Foundation and is launching
A decade ago, William McDonough and Michael Braungart wrote Cradle to Cradle, a book that environmentalist David Suzuki called “groundbreaking” and a “Bible for the Second
It has become accepted wisdom that density is a good thing, as part of the notion that cities should grow, adapt and change if they
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 more. “Yeah. That’s
It is not a coincidence that the movement to abolish slavery started in nations that, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, didn’t need them anymore. Author
According to some mainstream media reports, America will soon be “awash in oil.” Natural gas, meanwhile, seems to be pouring out of cracks in the
The most fascinating thing about Bob Willard’s The New Sustainability Advantage is that it is not really a book. It’s more like a PowerPoint deck,
David Owen has a formula: first, write provocative articles in The New Yorker magazine with a clever but superficial core argument. Second, wait for everyone
There are two narrative arcs in William Marsden’s recent book, Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change. In one, we follow the investigative
