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Spring 2014 - Page 2

Future 40 Issue

"Alice" 60" x 60" Acrylic on Canvas, from the series Modern Tipi, by Caroline Monnet
Cleantech/Energy/Responsible Investing/Social Enterprise/Spring 2014

Power to the people

by Chris Henderson

The Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies made plenty of bucks penning a song with a catchy beat and the closing line: “If

Waste rock
Mining/Responsible Investing/Social Enterprise/Spring 2014

A golden opportunity

by Stephanie Boyd

IMA, Peru – Raul Chavez has spent nearly 30 years toiling for gold in the parched rocky hills of Peru’s southern desert

A sustainable building
Built Environment/Cleantech/Responsible Investing/Spring 2014/Supply Chain

Building on innovation

by Tyler Hamilton

More buildings than ever carry the label green, intelligent, sustainable or smart. Whatever adjective one uses to describe these shelters of the

A Buoyant Aircraft Systems MB-150 airship. Photos courtesy of BASI
Cleantech/Social Enterprise/Spring 2014/Transportation

Up, up and away

by Roberta Staley

Last November, Typhoon Haiyan left a swath of destruction through Southeast Asia, flattening buildings and killing and maiming thousands of people. The

Distillers grain, a byproduct of corn ethanol production, being conveyed into a storage facility. Photo by Tyler Hamilton
Cleantech/Energy/Spring 2014/Transportation

Ethanol at a crossroads

by Tyler Hamilton

“Did you see the movie Greedy Lying Bastards?” Ken Field, the jovial founder and chair of Canadian ethanol producer GreenField Specialty Alcohols,

Illustration by Louis Gong
Cleantech/Energy/Leadership/Mining/Spring 2014

Clean energy, tribal power

by Brenda Bouw

On an 800-hectare stretch of tribal land in southern Nevada, construction of a large-scale solar project is underway that will not only

CEOs doing yoga Illustration by Min Gyo Chung
Spring 2014/Workplace

The mindful corporation

by Adria Vasil

SAN FRANCISCO – Executives from Google, Facebook and Instagram are all taking turns on a hotel conference room stage sharing business insights

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 “digital universe” is very similar to the physical universe in its construction. There’s the matter we can easily see: computers, mobile

Treehouse Illustration by Adrian Forrow
Built Environment/Cleantech/Energy/Spring 2014/Voices

The LEED question

by CK Staff

To the casual observer, Ohio’s sustainable building policy for public buildings has been a notable success. Requiring that new schools and retrofits

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