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Spring 2017

Future 40 Issue

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Leadership/Spring 2017/Supply Chain/Transportation/Workplace

Tesla planning additional gigafactories

by CK Staff

American automaker Tesla is making plans for an additional two or three more factories in the years ahead. โ€œLater this year we

Climate Crisis/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Natural Capital/Spring 2017/Supply Chain

Heroes & zeros: Unilever and Korindo

by CK Staff

Hero: Unilever Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever announced a new transparency initiative in February intended to provide a detailed breakdown of all

Climate Crisis/Natural Capital/Spring 2017

Carbon sinking

by CK Staff

On the border of the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo lies the largest tropical peatland in

2017 Future 40/Spring 2017

The Future 40 turns four

by CK Staff

On March 2, the Bank of Canada became the latest central bank to weigh in on the monumental impact that climate change

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Education/Guest Comment/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Spring 2017

Two shores away

by Chris Turner

When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last November that his government was approving Kinder Morganโ€™s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, it was bound

Education/Health & Lifestyle/Spring 2017

Editor’s Note: Everywhere and nowhere

by CK Staff

This pieceย appeared as an editor’s note inย the Spring 2017 issue of Corporate Knights As sesquicentennial events take place around the country in

Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Q&A/Spring 2017/Waste

Dissent in the ranks

by Jeremy Runnalls

During the 2008 federal election campaign, then-prime minister Stephen Harper took particular delight in lampooning Liberal leader Stephane Dionโ€™s green shift plan

Leadership/Spring 2017/Workplace

A different kind of board

by Sophia Grene

In recent years, corporate governance mavens have focused a great deal of attention on board composition. In particular, diversity has become the

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Leadership/Spring 2017/Supply Chain/Transportation

Getting up to speed

by Brenda Bouw

When it comes to environmentally friendly modes of transportation to move goods across Canada, the train is considered best. About 28 per

Built Environment/Clean Tech/Leadership/Spring 2017/Transportation

Charged up

by Peter Gorrie

Electric vehicles (EVs) will consign gasoline-burning cars to the transportation scrapyard. Thatโ€™s the firm consensus among industry experts. But agreement breaks down

Education/Food/Health & Lifestyle/Spring 2017

Dessert-ification

by Anne McIlroy

Canadians may end up consuming more sugar โ€“ not less โ€“ as a result of new food labels the federal government says

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Guest Comment/Leadership/Spring 2017/Transportation

Tactical urbanism

by Chris Bruntlett and Melissa Bruntlett

Inch by inch and block by block, cities around the world are beginning to break up the half-century-long monopoly the private automobile

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Guest Comment/Leadership/Spring 2017

Trade exposed

by Dave Sawyer

Carbon policy has a dose of competitiveness neurosis. This neurosis absolutely pervades the thinking behind climate inaction: for years, in Canada, concern

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Connected Planet/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Spring 2017/Voices

Money matters

by Toby A.A. Heaps

โ€œGiven the professional culture of the financial community, it is not surprising that large numbers of individuals in that world believe themselves

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Spring 2017

Greening the maple leaf

by CK Staff

โ€œGreen finance is a major opportunity.โ€ โ€“ Mark Carney, governor, Bank of England, 2016 In 1972, governments around the world recognized their

Climate Crisis/Leadership/Responsible Funds & Investing/Spring 2017

Irish take big step towards divestment

by CK Staff

A bill requiring Irelandโ€™s โ‚ฌ8 billion sovereign wealth fund to divest itself of all coal, oil and gas holdings moved one step

Leadership/Mining/Spring 2017/Supply Chain

Under the table

by CK Staff

In signing his third piece of legislation into law, U.S. President Donald Trump repealed a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosure requirement

Climate Crisis/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Spring 2017/Transportation

London stalling

by CK Staff

London should replace its existing inner city congestion charge with a broader pay-per-mile system, according to a report submitted by the London

Education/Food/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Spring 2017

Feed the truth

by CK Staff

The CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks, Daniel Lubetzky, has committed to donating $25 million over the next 10 years to exposing the

Leadership/Social Enterprise/Spring 2017/Workplace

Pilot season

by CK Staff

In January, 2,000 Finnish residents began receiving monthly cheques of โ‚ฌ560 for a two-year pilot project meant to test the viability of

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Spring 2017

Buckeye breeze

by CK Staff

In a break with lawmakers from his own party, Republican Governor of Ohio John Kasich recently vetoed legislation that would have extended

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