While Microsoft’s 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: Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World, by Paul Shapiro, and Clean Protein:
Poor Jeff Rubin. As chief economist at CIBC World Markets, he predicted in 2008 that oil would be $200 a barrel and gas would be
It’s that time of year when many of us like to fire up the barbecue and toss some steaks or burgers on the grill. So
It’s two weeks to deadline. Corporate Knights’ editor-in-chief Tyler Hamilton pings me, asking what book I’m planning to review. I ponder as I pace the modernist concrete block and
At first glance, I was put off by the title of John Taft’s new book, A Force for Good: How Enlightened Finance can Restore Faith
This is exciting. Why read dry business books when you can pick up the equivalent of an unputdownable John Grisham-style thrill read? Even better when
Andrew Winston’s The Big Pivot is most definitely a business book, “intended to be relatively short, but still provide a solid roadmap to a new
Ryan Honeyman’s new book, The B Corp Handbook, opens with a declaration of interdependence for a fast-growing community of companies that seeks to use the
If you’ve ever thought that you might need a self-help book to get through the climate crisis, Naomi Klein’s new book, which goes on sale
In his new book, Waking the Frog, Tom Rand tackles the question of why we, like the metaphorical frog in the boiling pot, are just sitting and doing
Are we at the tipping point of a new economy? Aaron Hurst thinks so. He is the founder of the Taproot Foundation and is launching
It has become accepted wisdom that density is a good thing, as part of the notion that cities should grow, adapt and change if they
In John Huston’s classic film Key Largo, Humphrey Bogart asks Edward G. Robinson, playing gangster Johnny Rocco, what it is he wants. It’s more. “Yeah. That’s
It is not a coincidence that the movement to abolish slavery started in nations that, thanks to the Industrial Revolution, didn’t need them anymore. Author
According to some mainstream media reports, America will soon be “awash in oil.” Natural gas, meanwhile, seems to be pouring out of cracks in the
The most fascinating thing about Bob Willard’s The New Sustainability Advantage is that it is not really a book. It’s more like a PowerPoint deck,
David Owen has a formula: first, write provocative articles in The New Yorker magazine with a clever but superficial core argument. Second, wait for everyone
There are two narrative arcs in William Marsden’s recent book, Fools Rule: Inside the Failed Politics of Climate Change. In one, we follow the investigative
The world is on the move – and butterflies and wildebeests aren’t the only ones migrating. As Doug Saunders writes in his recent book Arrival Cities:
1. Slow Down. Chat and Mingle When thinking of investing, most think of money. But there is more to wealth. A wealthy community is rich
Sometimes, it pays to be Canadian. At a time when workers in several E.U. countries are feverishly banding together in protest of their governments’ austerity
