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Built Environment/Connected Planet/Health & Lifestyle/Waste

How smartphones can lead the fight against air pollution

by Prashant Kumar

This article was originally published by The Conversation.ย  Itโ€™s no surprise that dirty air kills. In fact, air pollution was recently placed

Clean Tech/Connected Planet/Food/Winter 2015

Tech savvy: Ecova

by Stephen Lacey

Fast food restaurants can only do so much to cut calories from their sandwiches. But with energy conยญsumption 10 times greater than

Clean Tech/Connected Planet/Winter 2015

App watch: Bird Song ID

by CK Staff

Wouldnโ€™t it be great to have a mobile app thatโ€™s like a Shazam for birdcalls? With it, you could hold your mobile

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Connected Planet/Energy/Leadership

12 reasons for climate optimism this holiday season

by Jonah Busch

This article originally appeared on the Centre for Global Development blog.ย  Itโ€™s easy to feel down about climate change.ย  The annual pace

Connected Planet/Food/Health & Lifestyle

Precision agriculture poised for growth

by Kirsten Weir

This articleย originally appeared on FutureFood2050. Last summer, an unmanned drone cruised peacefully in the sky above an Ohio cornfield. Using remote-sensing technology,

Built Environment/Connected Planet/Transportation

Map quest

by Bill Laurance

This article was originally published by The Conversation.ย  โ€œThe best thing you could do for the Amazon is to blow up all

Clean Tech/Connected Planet/Voices

Is the Internet helping or hurting the planet?

by Tyler Hamilton

The Worldwatch Institute, an environmental think tank based in Washington, D.C., put out a press release earlier this month posing an attention-grabbing

Built Environment/Connected Planet/Guest Comment/Perspectives

Are smart cities a bright idea for the Global South?

by Robert Muggah

This article originally appeared on OpenCanada.org.ย  Smart cities are all the rage in the early 21st century. Newly wiredย urban dreamscapesย such as Aarhus,

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Connected Planet/Energy/Multimedia

PODCAST: Who pollutes most?

by CK Staff

This podcastย originally appeared on the Center for Global Development Wonkcast.ย  Pollution has no respect for party lines. In the US, Republican and

Clean Tech/Connected Planet/Supply Chain

Making climate-friendly pallets palatable

by Tyler Hamilton

Solar panels are cool. Smart phones are sexy. Electric cars turn heads. Shipping pallets? Well, not so sexy or cool or eye-catching.

Connected Planet/Education/Perspectives/Voices

Crowdfunding science: rewards and risks

by Tyler Hamilton

April 14 was a low point for science funding in Canada. Thatโ€™s when the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), with hat

Built Environment/Connected Planet/Leadership/Transportation/Voices

Did Toronto just elect a green mayor?

by Tyler Hamilton

Torontoโ€™s eco-conscious civil servants are no doubt feeling a sense of optimism now that Rob Fordโ€™s tumultuous reign as mayor has come

dot eco
Connected Planet/Social Enterprise/Voices

Canadian group wins dot-eco rights

by Tyler Hamilton

Canada may be an environmental laggard on the global stage these days, but on the Internet itโ€™s poised to become an eco-powerhouse.

Connected Planet/Education/Fall 2014/Leadership/Perspectives/Voices

Welcome to our new online home

by Tyler Hamilton

When Corporate Knights first launched 12 years ago as a print magazine, media coverage of sustainability issues as they relate to business

Clean Tech/Connected Planet/Fall 2014/Social Enterprise/Transportation

Tech savvy: Local Motion

by Stephen Lacey

As the sharing economy expands, consumers now have seemingly endless options for borrowing cars, bicycles, housing and furniture without the hassle of

drawing of a tree
Built Environment/Connected Planet/Fall 2013/Natural Capital/Social Enterprise

Equity crowdfunding

by CK Staff

Green bonds. Usage-based car insurance.ย Utility-scale energy storage.ย Ontario has made some significantย progress over the past few months on aย number of sustainability fronts. Its

EMC's Durham Cloud Data Center, North Carolina. Photos courtesy of Symmes Maini & McKee Associates
Connected Planet/Energy/Spring 2014/Supply Chain

Why big data is going green

by Stephen Lacey

The โ€œdigital universeโ€ is very similar to the physical universe in its construction. Thereโ€™s the matter we can easily see: computers, mobile

Forest Illustration by Julie Flett
Connected Planet/Spring 2014

Global forest watch

by CK Staff

The World Resources Institute, in partnership with Google and 40 other organizations, revealed a new online tool in February that empowers more

Illustration by Dave Murray
Connected Planet/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews/Winter 2014/Workplace

Embracing work with purpose

by Lloyd Alter

Are we at the tipping point of a new economy? Aaron Hurst thinks so. He is the founder of the Taproot Foundation

bellwoods
Connected Planet/Fall 2013/Workplace

Corporate pay pals

by Matthew Prescott Oxman

On a sunny Thursday afternoon in September, Bellwoods Brewery is not yet full of customers, but it is buzzing with activity. Every

These railroad ties near Miami are made from 100 per cent recycled plastic
Clean Tech/Connected Planet/Social Enterprise/Spring 2013/Transportation/Waste

Tech Savvy: Axion Intl.

by Adam Aston

Every day, thousands of commuters on Miamiโ€™s rapid transit system are whisked to work cushioned by a bed of empty milk jugs,

car sharing
Connected Planet/Social Enterprise/Spring 2013/Transportation

Own or share?

by Roberta Staley

Everything in life is somewhere else,โ€ wrote American author and essayist E.B. White, โ€œand you get there in a car.โ€ No truer

Crested Tern colony on a remote island in north-western Australia photographed by a UAV.
Climate Crisis/Connected Planet/Perspectives/Q&A

Dances with drones

by Farida Helmy

Senator Rand Paulโ€™s recentย 13-hour filibusterย on the floor of the US Senate over concerns of creeping domestic drone use captured a broader anxiety

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
Clean Tech/Connected Planet/Social Enterprise/Summer 2012

Da Vinci would approve

by Christopher Mims

Concepts from biomimicry and bioinspiration โ€“ the use of nature as a source of inspiration for new technologies โ€“ have shown a

Connected Planet/Energy/Leadership/Perspectives/Q&A/Spring 2012

Energy democratized

by CK Staff

American economist and author Jeremy Rifkin considers the World Wide Web, and more broadly, the Internet, as an essential component of a

Connected Planet/Spring 2012/Waste

Beware the rebound effect

by Pete Nowak

Mike Berners-Lee has a proposal for saving the world: he wants to start charging people a penny for every e-mail they send.

Connected Planet/Leadership/Spring 2012

The web of sustainability

by Tyler Hamilton

Berners-Lee couldnโ€™t have known he would spark a technological revolution that is making us more efficient, more adaptable, and better stewards of

Connected Planet/Perspectives/Voices/Winter 2011

A knight’s tale

by Toby A.A. Heaps

I recently lost a lot of friendsโ€”473 to be exact. I was coming to terms with a real-life episode that Woody Allen

Illustration
Connected Planet/Leadership/Social Enterprise/Summer 2010/Supply Chain

Philanthropy is dead?

by Melissa Shin

If the environment were a bank, we would have saved it already. This amusing yet sobering socialist protest mantra illustrates the misguided

Connected Planet/Health & Lifestyle/Natural Capital/Social Enterprise/Spring 2010

Ten ways to unite Canada

by Guy Dauncey

1. Relive the Olympics If we had wanted to create national unity from Haida Gwaii to St. Johnโ€™s seven years ago, we

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