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Sustainable Book Reviews

Climate Crisis/Spring 2021/Sustainable Book Reviews

Bill Gatesโ€™s climate fixes donโ€™t add up

by Lloyd Alter

While Microsoftโ€™s co-founder should have a head for numbers, his latest book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, fails on climate math

Climate Crisis/Food/Health & Lifestyle/Sustainable Book Reviews

Beyond meat

by Marc Gunther

Two new books kept me busy last week:ย Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, by Paul

Climate Crisis/Energy/Fall 2015/Food/Leadership/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews

When the carbon bubble bursts

by Lloyd Alter

Poor Jeff Rubin. As chief economist at CIBC World Markets, he predicted in 2008 that oil would be $200 a barrel and

Food/Health & Lifestyle/Summer 2015/Sustainable Book Reviews

For the love of cows

by Lloyd Alter

Itโ€™s that time of year when many of us like to fire up the barbecue and toss some steaks or burgers on

Climate Crisis/Education/Perspectives/Spring 2015/Sustainable Book Reviews

Book review: Carbon Black

by Lloyd Alter

Itโ€™s two weeks to deadline. Corporateย Knightsโ€™ editor-in-chief Tyler Hamilton pings me,ย asking what book Iโ€™m planning to review.ย I ponder as I pace the

Leadership/Perspectives/Responsible Funds & Investing/Sustainable Book Reviews

A Force for Good

by Ashley Renders

At first glance, I was put off by the title of John Taftโ€™s new book, A Force for Good: How Enlightened Finance

Energy/Natural Capital/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews/Winter 2015

Itโ€™s a jungle out there

by Lloyd Alter

This is exciting. Why read dry business books when you can pick up the equivaยญlent of an unputdownable John Grisham-style thrill read?

Climate Crisis/Fall 2014/Leadership/Natural Capital/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews

A pivotal moment for business

by Lloyd Alter

Andrew Winston’s The Big Pivot is most definitely a business book, “intended to be relatively short, but still provide a solid roadmap

Perspectives/Responsible Funds & Investing/Social Enterprise/Sustainable Book Reviews

The B Corp Handbook

by Russ Stoddard

Ryan Honeymanโ€™s new book, The B Corp Handbook, opens with a declaration of interdependence for a fast-growing community of companies that seeks

Clean Tech/Climate Crisis/Leadership/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews/Voices

This Changes Everything

by Ashley Renders

If you’ve ever thought that you might need a self-help book to get through the climate crisis, Naomi Kleinโ€™s new book, which

Fall 2013/Food/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews

Waking the frog

by Lloyd Alter

In his new book, Waking the Frog, Tomย Rand tackles the question of why we, likeย the metaphorical frog in the boiling pot, areย just

Illustration by Dave Murray
Connected Planet/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews/Winter 2014/Workplace

Embracing work with purpose

by Lloyd Alter

Are we at the tipping point of a new economy? Aaron Hurst thinks so. He is the founder of the Taproot Foundation

density Illustration by Julianna Brion
Built Environment/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Spring 2013/Sustainable Book Reviews

Does dense equal sustainable?

by Lloyd Alter

It has become accepted wisdom that density is a good thing, as part of the notion that cities should grow, adapt and

Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Spring 2013/Supply Chain/Sustainable Book Reviews/Waste

The want of more

by Lloyd Alter

In John Hustonโ€™s classic filmย Key Largo, Humphrey Bogart asks Edward G. Robinson, playing gangster Johnny Rocco, what it is he wants. Itโ€™s

Illustration by James Hindle
Climate Crisis/Energy/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews/Winter 2013

The energy of slaves

by Lloyd Alter

It is not a coincidence that the movement to abolish slavery started in nations that, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, didnโ€™t need

Clean Tech/Fall 2012/Health & Lifestyle/Perspectives/Supply Chain/Sustainable Book Reviews/Waste

An energy crisis of our own

by Lloyd Alter

According to some mainstream media reports, America will soon be โ€œawash in oil.โ€ Natural gas, meanwhile, seems to be pouring out of

Illustration by Pete Ryan
Natural Capital/Perspectives/Responsible Funds & Investing/Social Enterprise/Summer 2012/Sustainable Book Reviews

The hard sell

by Lloyd Alter

The most fascinating thing about Bob Willardโ€™s The New Sustainability Advantage is that it is not really a book. Itโ€™s more like

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,

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Climate Crisis/Leadership/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews/Winter 2013

Fools rule

by Lloyd Alter

There are two narrative arcs in William Marsdenโ€™s recent book, Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change. In one, we

Built Environment/Health & Lifestyle/Leadership/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews

Mass migration

by Azra Fazal

The world is on the move โ€“ and butterflies and wildebeests arenโ€™t the only ones migrating. As Doug Saunders writes in his

Invest in community | A photograph of a house with a lemonade stand
Built Environment/Clean Tech/Food/Perspectives/Sustainable Book Reviews/Winter 2011

10 ways to invest in community

by Guy Dauncey

1. Slow Down. Chat and Mingle When thinking of investing in your community, most think of money. But there is more to

Leadership/Perspectives/Responsible Funds & Investing/Sustainable Book Reviews

Canada the swindler

by CK Staff

Sometimes, it pays to be Canadian. At a time when workers in several E.U. countries are feverishly banding together in protest of

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