This article was originally published by The Conversation. It’s no surprise that dirty air kills. In fact, air pollution was recently placed in the top
Fast food restaurants can only do so much to cut calories from their sandwiches. But with energy consumption 10 times greater than average commercial buildings,
Wouldn’t it be great to have a mobile app that’s like a Shazam for birdcalls? With it, you could hold your mobile phone in the
This article originally appeared on the Centre for Global Development blog. It’s easy to feel down about climate change. The annual pace of emissions of
This article originally appeared on FutureFood2050. Last summer, an unmanned drone cruised peacefully in the sky above an Ohio cornfield. Using remote-sensing technology, the aircraft was
This article was originally published by The Conversation. “The best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all the roads.” These
The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C., put out a press release earlier this month posing an attention-grabbing question in its
This article originally appeared on OpenCanada.org. Smart cities are all the rage in the early 21st century. Newly wired urban dreamscapes such as Aarhus, Barcelona, Masdar, and
This podcast originally appeared on the Center for Global Development Wonkcast. Pollution has no respect for party lines. In the US, Republican and Democratic districts may
Solar panels are cool. Smart phones are sexy. Electric cars turn heads. Shipping pallets? Well, not so sexy or cool or eye-catching. But the lowly
Federal anti-corruption rules: too harsh? A bloc of business groups is pushing back against new anti-corruption rules that have been introduced recently by Public Works
April 14 was a low point for science funding in Canada. That’s when the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), with hat in hand, launched
Toronto’s eco-conscious civil servants are no doubt feeling a sense of optimism now that Rob Ford’s tumultuous reign as mayor has come to an end.
Canada may be an environmental laggard on the global stage these days, but on the Internet it’s poised to become an eco-powerhouse. The Internet Corporation
When Corporate Knights first launched 12 years ago as a print magazine, media coverage of sustainability issues as they relate to business and the economy
As the sharing economy expands, consumers now have seemingly endless options for borrowing cars, bicycles, housing and furniture without the hassle of ownership. Sharing is
Green bonds. Usage-based car insurance. Utility-scale energy storage. Ontario has made some significant progress over the past few months on a number of sustainability fronts. Its latest step forward?
The “digital universe” is very similar to the physical universe in its construction. There’s the matter we can easily see: computers, mobile phones, television screens
The World Resources Institute, in partnership with Google and 40 other organizations, revealed a new online tool in February that empowers more people than ever
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
On a sunny Thursday afternoon in September, Bellwoods Brewery is not yet full of customers, but it is buzzing with activity. Every employee in sight
Every day, thousands of commuters on Miami’s rapid transit system are whisked to work cushioned by a bed of empty milk jugs, discarded laundry detergent
Everything in life is somewhere else,” wrote American author and essayist E.B. White, “and you get there in a car.” No truer words were spoken
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 about the nascent
Concepts from biomimicry and bioinspiration – the use of nature as a source of inspiration for new technologies – have shown a 10-fold increase in
American economist and author Jeremy Rifkin considers the World Wide Web, and more broadly, the Internet, as an essential component of a future economic order
Mike Berners-Lee has a proposal for saving the world: he wants to start charging people a penny for every e-mail they send. Doing so, he
Berners-Lee couldn’t have known he would spark a technological revolution that is making us more efficient, more adaptable, and better stewards of the planet. In
I recently lost a lot of friends—473 to be exact. I was coming to terms with a real-life episode that Woody Allen and Stanley Kubrick
If the environment were a bank, we would have saved it already. This amusing yet sobering socialist protest mantra illustrates the misguided view our markets
