Karim Asani, an energy manager at Canadian internet and cable giant Rogers Communications, isn’t an easy man to convince. So when REGEN Energy, an energy-management
Hero: Vale Canada Vale Canada, a subsidiary of the giant Brazilian mining firm, broke ground in April on a $2-billion retrofit of its Copper Cliff
During a speech in Maryland last year, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus looked back on the energy transitions that American naval forces have undergone
Duke Energy is among the biggest electric power companies in the United States and one of the largest emitters of greenhouse-gas emissions in the world.
From the top of Amagerforbrænding, the largest of three garbage incineration plants located in downtown Copenhagen, is an idyllic panorama of the waterfront. A newly
Talking about a “national energy strategy” is very much in vogue these days, almost the way we talked about “climate change strategies” for the first
Across Canada, roughly 700 companies make up the $9-billion cleantech sector. Most are in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, which also fetch a lion’s share
In the early 1990s the Clinton administration put a stop to logging in huge swaths of old growth forest in the U.S. to protect a
James Hansen is director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and one of the world’s most respected climate scientists. Earlier this year he spoke
In March, an Ottawa Citizen reporter named Tom Spears sent a routine request to the National Research Council (NRC). Spears had noticed a joint research
It’s a potent image of the early 21st century: the wind farm.Colossal white towers striding across farmland or wading mightily offshore. Some see them as
It’s May 1, rush hour, and I’m sitting on a crowded Toronto streetcar brought to a halt at the intersection of Queen Street West and
For decades now, employees of Desjardins have been able to hop on one of the company’s shuttle buses to commute between its offices in Montreal
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
Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, is fast approaching and, by any measure, our global sustainability crisis is increasingly evident. As Achim Steiner, executive
The methodology for the Best 50 Corporate Citizens is based on environmental, social, and governance indicators found in the public domain. Scores were based on
Hero: BASF The world’s largest diversified chemical company made waves this spring with the release of bold sustainability targets for 2020. The German-based company, which
It’s mid-summer and the air is thick. Thirteen riders form a peloton in the 10th stage of Le Tour De France, grinding their way through
David Owen has a formula: first, write provocative articles in The New Yorker magazine with a clever but superficial core argument. Second, wait for everyone
In discussions about climate change and our deteriorating environment, it’s often said that cities – not international organizations, nations or states – are best positioned
Cowboy-boot wearing, steak-eating, oil and gas extracting men with big trucks and a deep distrust of gays and lesbians. Oh, and they don’t believe in
Michael Nutter couldn’t have picked a worse time to win the keys to city hall. In late 2007, after 14 years as a city councilman,
A list of 38 specific policies and programs was assembled from analysis of what cities around America have been doing to try to become more
