Hero: Vale Canada Vale Canada, a subsidiary of the giant Brazilian mining firm, broke ground in April on a $2-billion retrofit of
During a speech in Maryland last year, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus looked back on the energy transitions that American naval
Duke Energy is among the biggest electric power companies in the United States and one of the largest emitters of greenhouse-gas emissions
Hero: BASF The world’s largest diversified chemical company made waves this spring with the release of bold sustainability targets for 2020. The
David Keith is a Harvard physics professor, geo-engineering entrepreneur and trusted advisor to Bill Gates. Michael Liebreich is chief executive of Bloomberg New
In June of last year, a research team working at the Department of National Defence (DND) put forth four different scenarios for
Hero: Puma Puma, the German shoe and sportswear company, recently concluded an ambitious project to measure its entire ecological footprint – the
Most people would not identify the 46th Vice-President of the United States as a pioneer of green energy. Ironically, thanks to a
I was organizing Wall Street protests back in 2004, before it was cool. These days, I prefer to spend my time with
Hero: HSBC Canada HSBC Canada revealed in October it has set up a $1-million scholarship fund at Toronto’s York University, which will
It’s a question the Cleantech Group, a research firm focused on cleantech innovation and investment, continually asks as part of its Top
Thud! That’s the sound the next assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will make when it starts to land
Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow
Twenty years ago, Brian Mulroney and George H.W. Bush signed the Acid Rain Accord. Since then, the landmark air quality agreement and
I recently lost a lot of friends—473 to be exact. I was coming to terms with a real-life episode that Woody Allen
While the biggest win in shareholder activism came with oversight on executive compensation packages for banks and corporations, shareholder activism went down
Take a look next time you are at the supermarket. More than a quarter of everything on the shelves has corn in
In mid-October 1980, a current and former environment minister and a group of environmentalists sat down for coffee at Toronto’s Royal York Hotel to plot
