While Microsoftโs co-founder should have a head for numbers, his latest book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, fails on climate math
Two new books kept me busy last week:ย Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, by Paul
Poor Jeff Rubin. As chief economist at CIBC World Markets, he predicted in 2008 that oil would be $200 a barrel and
Itโs that time of year when many of us like to fire up the barbecue and toss some steaks or burgers on
Itโs two weeks to deadline. Corporateย Knightsโ editor-in-chief Tyler Hamilton pings me,ย asking what book Iโm planning to review.ย I ponder as I pace the
At first glance, I was put off by the title of John Taftโs new book, A Force for Good: How Enlightened Finance
This is exciting. Why read dry business books when you can pick up the equivaยญlent of an unputdownable John Grisham-style thrill read?
Andrew Winston’s The Big Pivot is most definitely a business book, “intended to be relatively short, but still provide a solid roadmap
Ryan Honeymanโs new book, The B Corp Handbook, opens with a declaration of interdependence for a fast-growing community of companies that seeks
If you’ve ever thought that you might need a self-help book to get through the climate crisis, Naomi Kleinโs new book, which
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
Are we at the tipping point of a new economy? Aaron Hurst thinks so. He is the founder of the Taproot Foundation
It has become accepted wisdom that density is a good thing, as part of the notion that cities should grow, adapt and
In John Hustonโs classic filmย Key Largo, Humphrey Bogart asks Edward G. Robinson, playing gangster Johnny Rocco, what it is he wants. Itโs
It is not a coincidence that the movement to abolish slavery started in nations that, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, didnโt need
According to some mainstream media reports, America will soon be โawash in oil.โ Natural gas, meanwhile, seems to be pouring out of
The hard sell
The most fascinating thing about Bob Willardโs The New Sustainability Advantage is that it is not really a book. Itโs more like
David Owen has a formula: first, write provocative articles in The New Yorker magazine with a clever but superficial core argument. Second,
There are two narrative arcs in William Marsdenโs recent book, Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change. In one, we
The world is on the move โ and butterflies and wildebeests arenโt the only ones migrating. As Doug Saunders writes in his
1. Slow Down. Chat and Mingle When thinking of investing in your community, most think of money. But there is more to
Sometimes, it pays to be Canadian. At a time when workers in several E.U. countries are feverishly banding together in protest of