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Winter 2011

Sustainable Cities Issue

Responsible Funds & Investing/Winter 2011

Hedge your bets

by Al Rosen and Mark Rosen

The onslaught has already begun. Fund companies are laying the guilt on thick, ratcheting up the fear factor in a heated competition

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Built Environment/Clean Tech/Food/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews/Winter 2011

10 ways to invest in community

by Guy Dauncey

1. Slow Down. Chat and Mingle When thinking of investing in your community, most think of money. But there is more to

Winter 2011/Workplace

Lay off the layoffs

by Frank Koller

When CEOs order layoffs, invariably arguing, “We have no alternative,” theyโ€™re seldom able to justify exactly how those layoffs will help their

Built Environment/Clean Tech/Responsible Funds & Investing/Winter 2011

Profits left on the table

by CK Staff

British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is mining gold from green buildings. The fund manager includes B.C.โ€™s seven public sector pension funds and

Built Environment/Food/Winter 2011

The city’s gone bananas

by Jon-Erik Lappano

While bananas and tree-forts sound like primate priorities, we humans take these simple pleasures for granted. There is a good chance that

Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Perspectives/Q&A/Winter 2011

Gridlocked

by Jon-Erik Lappano

Ambassador Gary Doer has been a proponent of developing an east-west integrated Canadian energy strategy since his days as Premier of Manitoba

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

2011 Sustainable Cities/Built Environment/Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Winter 2011

The metabolic metropolis

by Sarah Barmak

If the concept of a sustainable city sounds like a paradox, thatโ€™s because it is, according to physicist Geoffrey West. Ironically, because

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Winter 2011

Maple leaf manifesto

by Karim Bardeesy

In an ideal world, given Canadaโ€™s vast size, natural bounty and historic presence on the international stage, sustainability should be intimately paired

Responsible Funds & Investing/Winter 2011

Putting the R in responsible

by Cynthia McQueen

In the wake of the big bank bailout in the U.S., Canadian financial institutions were quick to establish themselves as safe-houses for

Perspectives/Responsible Funds & Investing/Voices/Winter 2011

Care to share

by CK Staff

While the biggest win in shareholder activism came with oversight on executive compensation packages for banks and corporations, shareholder activism went down

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Energy/Perspectives/Q&A/Winter 2011

Cities will get a lot bigger

by Melissa Shin

CK: How can cities prepare for a peak oil future? RUBIN: The trend from the last four decades has been suburban sprawl.

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2011 Sustainable Cities/Winter 2011

2011 Sustainable Cities methodology

by CK Staff

Like a living organism our Sustainable Cities methodology continues to evolve. To create a measurable and comparable set of indicators from year

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