Millions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas lay undeveloped in Canada’s Mackenzie Valley, a fact that
Judging from the flood of press releases in recent months announcing cap and trade schemes for carbon emissions, we may have reached
Bob Inglis is going to be late. The former Republican representative from South Carolina is driving his car while doing a phone
Hampshire College has a long history of putting its money behind its progressive principles, serving in the vanguard of various divestment movements.
North America couldn’t survive without the Great Lakes. They power the economy, quench inhabitants’ thirst and provide an array of ecosystem services.
It’s been two years since I left my post at Corporate Knights to pursue a career in environmental education. Today, as program
On this we can agree: The relationship between people and the natural world is broken. We fail to value the systems that
Norway’s oil is running out and the country has never been in better shape. Alberta, blessed with reserves second only to Saudi
Munir Sheikh began his career as a public servant 40 years ago when he became an economist with the Economic Council of
As a Republican, a banker and an environmentalist, I can tell you that I have spotted the modern day grail – which
Senator Rand Paul’s recent 13-hour filibuster on the floor of the US Senate over concerns of creeping domestic drone use captured a broader anxiety
Hero: A.P. Moller-Maersk Group Following a public relations campaign led by Danish shipping powerhouse A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung
A recently released Greenpeace report warns that if 14 planned large-scale fossil fuel projects from around the world are allowed to proceed,
You drive up to the gas pump, grab the nozzle and start filling up your car or SUV. Captive for a good
It is not a coincidence that the movement to abolish slavery started in nations that, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, didn’t need
Hopes for bipartisan support over a carbon tax in the United States look set to slide off the fiscal cliff. President Barack
For those who assumed that socially responsible investment (SRI) firms confine themselves to buying stock in solar energy, organic juice and recycled
At the beginning of the Clinton administration in the early 1990s, political advisor James Carville famously remarked: “I used to think if
Last fall, the Pew Research Center found that 67 per cent of Americans believe global warming is a reality. That’s up 10
The 2012 election season proved just how much Americans support cleantech. Case in point: Solyndra. After the solar manufacturer went bankrupt in
Look up in the sky. It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Iron Man. With all due respect to Superman fans, when
Corporate Knights defines clean capitalism as an economic system in which prices incorporate social, economic and ecological benefits and costs, and participants know
The world needs to double down on clean energy investments, not back away. That is the conclusion of a report released in
This past year should have been a breakthrough for the environment. London rolled out the greenest ever Olympic Games. We celebrated the
Hero: Office Depot Office Depot has been named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) list of 2012 Energy Star leaders for
Unfortunate fallout from the global economic crisis – notably double-digit unemployment – is driving citizens of the most-affected countries to a mental
Anyone who has been paying attention to environmental issues in Canada knows that relations are downright toxic between the oil industry, environmentalists,
The debate at Rio+20 in late June was about “natural” capital. Just days earlier, world leaders attending the G20 summit in Mexico
During a speech in Maryland last year, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus looked back on the energy transitions that American naval
From the top of Amagerforbrænding, the largest of three garbage incineration plants located in downtown Copenhagen, is an idyllic panorama of the
