This piece appeared as an editor's note in the Winter 2017 issue of Corporate Knights Among the diplomats, corporate titans, politicians and celebrities
May 8, 2050 Dear Zia, You were born in a year when the western status quo was smashed. The fantastical became the
Canadians who want to invest in environmental solutions and clean technologies (cleantech) – the sector of companies that minimizes the impacts of
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A bill passed by the National Assembly of Quebec last October establishes minimum sales targets for electric, rechargeable and hybrid vehicles, also
Originally published on Ensia For about 3 billion of the world’s poorest people, the simple act of cooking dinner is fraught with
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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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Sources: China National Coal Association, National Energy Administration, CoalSwarm, National Bureau of Statistics, Frankfurt School and United Nations Environment Program, Greenpeace.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has a storied history of denouncing people and things he disagrees with as “disgusting,” including Rosie
Kermit the Frog famously said it’s not easy being green. Today, it might be easier being green than being a CEO in
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Colville Lake, a First Nation community about 50 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, was quiet for a few hours in late
Originally published on Ensia A roomful of materials scientists, gathered at UCLA for a recent conference on “grand challenges in construction materials,”
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Stuart Lombard had no obvious reason to leave his job as a venture capitalist in 2007. Times were good. As managing partner
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As refrigerators go, so goes the kitchen. At least we hope so, as fridges are the great success story of appliance efficiency
Originally published on Ensia. On a Wednesday in late February 2010, Hewlett-Packard hosted an unusual training session at its offices in Fort
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