Spring 2012
2012 Best 50 Issue
Featuring 2012 Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada and 2012 Green Provincial Report Card
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Clean Tech
Tech Savvy: Rogers
Managing call-centre energy demands using "swarm logic."
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Mining
Heroes & zeros: vol. 4
Vale spends big to reduce impacts of Ontario nickel smelter; Northern Dynasty Minerals gets rocked by Alaskan Pebble project.
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Clean Tech
Military greens
Climate wars. Fuel volatility. Safety in the battlefield. The Pentagon has many reasons to be embracing renewable energy.
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Energy
Is bashing China bad for U.S.?
An interview with James E. Rogers, CEO of power utility Duke Energy.
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Waste
Burn after reading
Garbage incineration may not sound pretty, but it’s gotten a lot cleaner, and may be the best solution to our waste problem.
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Energy
Provincial power
It's time to turn energy vision into action.
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Clean Tech
Different shades of green
Canada’s clean technology industry, like the country itself, comes with regional strengths and needs.
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Built Environment
The nature effect
How green space can improve a province’s bottom line
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Climate Crisis
Adapting to the new normal
As the effects of climate change become more pronounced, are corporations and governments talking enough about resilience?
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Leadership
Environmental management
Muzzled scientists, junked science.
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Climate Crisis
Rise of the anthropocene
With seven billion people on the planet and rising, the human footprint is adding up.
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The state of Canadian corporate citizenship
There's growing recognition among the country's biggest companies that business-as-usual isn't a sustainable long term option
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Connected Planet
Energy democratized
Why Internet technologies represent one of five foundational pillars for a coming third industrial revolution.
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Connected Planet
Beware the rebound effect
The internet is making us more efficient and consumptive. The brother of the man who invented the "Web" finds this worrisome.
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Connected Planet
The web of sustainability
Sir Tim Berners-Lee built the world's first website in 1991. Two decades later his World Wide Web has become a force for good
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Climate Crisis
Rio + 20
Two decades after the Rio Earth Summit, it's time to ask: How far have we come?
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Energy
Heroes & zeros: vol. 3
BASF sets ambitious targets for energy efficiency; Asia Pulp & Paper faces public outrage over destruction of peatlands.
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2012 Sustainable Provinces
Green provinces of Canada
Ontario and British Columbia lead the peloton in the race to become Canada's greenest province.
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Clean Tech
The Conundrum
David Owen digs himself out of his own contradictions in his latest book.
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Which municipalities are making the greatest sustainability effort?
Despite serious social and economic problems, several cities continue to make progress towards becoming more sustainable.
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Leadership
Philly’s greener path
Can mayor Michael Nutter make sustainability stick in his second term?
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