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Spring 2012

Best 50 Issue

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Clean Tech/Energy/Spring 2012

Tech Savvy: Rogers

by Jennifer Kho

Karim Asani, an energy manager at Canadian internet and cable giant Rogers Communications, isnโ€™t an easy man to convince. So when REGEN

Sudbury's big nickel. Photo by Marcoplo78
Clean Tech/Mining/Perspectives/Spring 2012/Voices

Heroes & zeros: vol. 4

by CK Staff

Hero: Vale Canada Vale Canada, a subsidiary of the giant Brazilian mining firm, broke ground in April on a $2-billion retrofit of

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Spring 2012/Summer 2012/Voices

Military greens

by CK Staff

During a speech in Maryland last year, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus looked back on the energy transitions that American naval

Energy/Leadership/Perspectives/Q&A/Spring 2012/Voices

Is bashing China bad for U.S.?

by CK Staff

Duke Energy is among the biggest electric power companies in the United States and one of the largest emitters of greenhouse-gas emissions

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Perspectives/Spring 2012/Waste

Burn after reading

by Jeremy Runnalls

From the top of Amagerforbrรฆnding, the largest of three garbage incineration plants located in downtown Copenhagen, is an idyllic panorama of the

Clean Tech/Energy/Leadership/Spring 2012

Provincial power

by Marlo Raynolds

Talking about a โ€œnational energy strategyโ€ is very much in vogue these days, almost the way we talked about โ€œclimate change strategiesโ€

Clean Tech/Energy/Leadership/Spring 2012

Different shades of green

by Paul Brent

Across Canada, roughly 700 companies make up the $9-billion cleantech sector. Most are in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, which also fetch

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Spring 2012

The nature effect

by Faisal Moola

In the early 1990s the Clinton administration put a stop to logging in huge swaths of old growth forest in the U.S.

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Spring 2012

Adapting to the new normal

by Sanjay Khanna

James Hansen is director of NASAโ€™s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the worldโ€™s most respected climate scientists. Earlier this

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Spring 2012

Environmental management

by Chris Turner

In March, an Ottawa Citizen reporter named Tom Spears sent a routine request to the National Research Council (NRC). Spears had noticed

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Energy/Health & Lifestyle/Spring 2012

Rise of the anthropocene

by Chris Wodskou

Itโ€™s a potent image of the early 21st century: the wind farm.Colossal white towers striding across farmland or wading mightily offshore. Some

2012 Best 50/Spring 2012

The state of Canadian corporate citizenship

by Tyler Hamilton

Itโ€™s May 1, rush hour, and Iโ€™m sitting on a crowded Toronto streetcar brought to a halt at the intersection of Queen

2012 Best 50/Spring 2012

Top company profile: Desjardins Group

by Tara Perkins

For decades now, employees of Desjardins have been able to hop on one of the companyโ€™s shuttle buses to commute between its

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

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Spring 2012

Rio + 20

by Felix von Geyer

Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, is fast approaching and, by any measure, our global sustainability crisis is increasingly evident. As

2012 Best 50/Spring 2012

2012 Best 50 Corporate Citizens Methodology

by CK Staff

The methodology for the Best 50 Corporate Citizens is based on environmental, social, and governance indicators found in the public domain. Scores

Energy/Spring 2012/Voices

Heroes & zeros: vol. 3

by CK Staff

Hero: BASF The worldโ€™s largest diversified chemical company made waves this spring with the release of bold sustainability targets for 2020. The

2012 Sustainable Provinces/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Spring 2012/Transportation/Waste/Water

Green provinces of Canada

by Erin Marchington

Itโ€™s mid-summer and the air is thick. Thirteen riders form a peloton in the 10th stage of Le Tour De France, grinding

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Perspectives/Spring 2012/Sustainable Book Reviews

The Conundrum

by Lloyd Alter

David Owen has a formula: first, write provocative articles in The New Yorker magazine with a clever but superficial core argument. Second,

2012 Sustainable Cities/Spring 2012

Which municipalities are making the greatest sustainability effort?

by Kent E. Portney

In discussions about climate change and our deteriorating environment, itโ€™s often said that cities โ€“ not international organizations, nations or states โ€“

2012 Sustainable Cities/Spring 2012

Houston Mayor Annise Parker helps green up Texas image

by Tyler Hamilton

Cowboy-boot wearing, steak-eating, oil and gas extracting men with big trucks and a deep distrust of gays and lesbians. Oh, and they

2012 Sustainable Cities/Leadership/Spring 2012

Philly’s greener path

by Adam Aston

Michael Nutter couldnโ€™t have picked a worse time to win the keys to city hall. In late 2007, after 14 years as

2012 Sustainable Cities/Spring 2012

2012 Sustainable Cities Methodology

by CK Staff

A list of 38 specific policies and programs was assembled from analysis of what cities around America have been doing to try

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