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2019 Best 50/Best 50

Best 50 Corporate Citizens show formula for better profits

by Toby A.A. Heaps

The planet is heating up and Mother Nature is howling out in pain as forest fires ravage the land and species head

Leadership/Spring 2019

Bogle the mind

by Toby A.A. Heaps

This past January, John Bogle, the investing legend and โ€œmoney manager for the people,โ€ passed away after 89 fruitful years. Over the

Energy/Leadership/Spring 2019

Oil and water

by Toby A.A. Heaps

On one side, you have billion-dollar oil and power corporations hungry for growth. On the other, First Nations whose concerns have long

Energy/Leadership/Mining/Perspectives/Spring 2019/Voices

Canadian economy can’t succeed if the Indigenous economy fails

by Toby A.A. Heaps

  Enjoying the spectacle of Jody Wilson-Raybould cleaning the floor with the Prime Minister? Guess what corporate Canada: youโ€™re next. Anybody doubting

Clean capitalism
Climate Crisis/Winter 2019

Imagine a cleaner Canada

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Imagine the Canada of 2025. Zero-emission vehicles putter across the country, silently saving the average person $1,500 a year on fuel costs.

Leadership/Voices

Donโ€™t let SNC axe โ€˜Maple Leaf Advantageโ€™

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Corporate accountability mechanisms for Canadian companies operating in developing countries have been a long time coming. A National Roundtable for Corporate Social

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Perspectives

10 lessons from Davos on changing capitalism’s tune

by Toby A.A. Heaps

โ€œThe times they are a-changin’,โ€ belted Bob Dylan in his iconic 1964 song that tapped the revolutionary ethos of the decade. The

Climate Crisis/Perspectives

Optimistic in spite of reality

by Toby A.A. Heaps

My first summer job that didnโ€™t involve cutting grass was in Bosnia with an outfit called Conflict Resolution Catalysts, which had the

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Clean Tech

Imagine a cleaner, more affordable Canada

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Imagine the Canada of 2025. Zero-emission vehicles putter across the country, silently saving the average person $1,500 a year on fuel costs.

Climate Crisis/Fall 2018

Size of the prize

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Canadaโ€™s plan to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change, sets a clear trajectory for transition

Climate Crisis/Responsible Funds & Investing/Voices

Clean Transition Bonds could unlock $1T+ in oil sands opportunities

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Corporate Knights and the Council for Clean Capitalism today released draft Clean Transition Bonds Guidelines โ€“ a crucial first step in establishing

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Divestment would have made NY pension fund $22B richer

by Toby A.A. Heaps

The New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) would be an estimated $22.2 billion richer had it decided to divest its fossil

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Climate Crisis

New York State Common Retirement Fund Pays High Price for Holding on to Fossil Fuel Stocks

by Toby A.A. Heaps

The New York State Common Retirement Fund (NYSCRF) would be an estimated $15.6 billion richer had it decided to unload its fossil

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Spring 2018/Voices

Beyond pipelines

by Toby A.A. Heaps

At a summit back in 2014, then-Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Gary Doer extolled the environmental virtues of pipelines, leaving a lot

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Social Enterprise/Voices/Winter 2018/Workplace

Knights of the (clean capitalism) realm

by Toby A.A. Heaps

A number of years ago at a dinner hosted by Corporate Knights, Lord Nicholas Stern asked what a โ€œcorporate knightโ€ was and

2018 Eco-Funds/Winter 2018

2018 Better World Fund Ranking

by Toby A.A. Heaps

While the sea ice is melting in the Arctic at the fastest pace in 1,500 years and the California forests are burning

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Fall 2017/Leadership/Q&A/Responsible Funds & Investing

Bank statement

by Toby A.A. Heaps

This past March, the Bank of Canada had its coming out party on the topic of climate change in the form of

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2017/Voices/Workplace

The people’s pension power

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Unless you are swinging and missing at home plate, good things often come in threes. So when I had three random interactions

Built Environment/Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2017/Transportation

Sizing up the market

by Sean Kidney and Toby A.A. Heaps

Under the auspices of the Council for Clean Capitalism, Corporate Knights recently released a first-of-its-kind quantification of the annual capacity for green

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Connected Planet/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Spring 2017/Voices

Money matters

by Toby A.A. Heaps

โ€œGiven the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves

2017 Eco-Funds/Winter 2017

Introducing our 2017 Eco-Fund Ratings

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Money canโ€™t buy me love, or the song goes. But could it buy a better world? What would happen if the 500

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Leadership/Voices/Winter 2017

May 8, 2050

by Toby A.A. Heaps

May 8, 2050 Dear Zia, You were born in a year when the western status quo was smashed. The fantastical became the

Clean Tech/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Voices

The Carbon Clean 200

by Andy Behar, Toby A.A. Heaps and Michael Yow

Over the past five years, and growing dramatically leading up to and post-Paris COP 21, a movement of institutional and individual investors

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2016 World Stock Exchanges/Voices

Corporate transparency

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Considerable effort goes into sustainability reporting, but to what end? On the critical issue of climate change, we now have a potentially

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2016/Voices

Mind the gap

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Kermit the Frog famously said itโ€™s not easy being green. Today, it might be easier being green than being a CEO in

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Climate Crisis/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Summer 2016/Voices

Pension tension

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Dear Mr. King: As representatives of Labour in the House of Commons, may we ask whether it is your intention to introduce

Climate Crisis/Responsible Funds & Investing/Spring 2016

Defending divestment

by Bob Litterman and Toby A.A. Heaps

Many investors today are trying to understand what climate change implies for their portfolios. Does market efficiency indicate they should hold market

Climate Crisis/Food/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Spring 2016/Voices

Being okay with enough

by Toby A.A. Heaps

True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by

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Leadership/Spring 2016

The Third Industrial Revolution is upon us

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Jeremy Rifkin has been a well-known economist, social theorist and author for decades, weighing in on the impact of scientific and technological

Built Environment/Energy/Food/Leadership/Voices/Winter 2016

Cows, coal and cars

by Toby A.A. Heaps

Cows, coal and cars. Together they account for roughly half of all human-caused greenhouse gases. To solve global warming, the world need

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