The Canadian rock band Barenaked Ladies made plenty of bucks penning a song with a catchy beat and the closing line: “If
IMA, Peru – Raul Chavez has spent nearly 30 years toiling for gold in the parched rocky hills of Peru’s southern desert
More buildings than ever carry the label green, intelligent, sustainable or smart. Whatever adjective one uses to describe these shelters of the
What’s bad for the environment is good for the portfolio, and vice versa. That baby boomer mentality has been the driver of
The world's first fair-trade shoe company. Solar bonds. An easier way to donate to charity. Affordable housing. Converting zoo animal poop into
The Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations ranking, which Corporate Knights has published each year since 2005, is one of the world's most credible and widely followed
Mention “cleantech” and “Canada” in the same sentence and chances are investors in green innovation both domestically and abroad will think of
In the world of sustainable purchasing, the players are at sea. Buyers, sellers and standard setters are like ships in uncharted waters.
Hampshire College has a long history of putting its money behind its progressive principles, serving in the vanguard of various divestment movements.
In the summer issue of Corporate Knights, contributor Eric Reguly showed us how Norway outclassed Alberta in a comparison of how the two jurisdictions have
Sabrina Lee-Brewster has a particular talent for a particularly challenging task: getting residents from Detroit, the third most unbanked major city in
It’s an obvious risk to the planet. But as companies around the world, and their accountants, are slowly coming to realize, the
For those who assumed that socially responsible investment (SRI) firms confine themselves to buying stock in solar energy, organic juice and recycled
At the beginning of the Clinton administration in the early 1990s, political advisor James Carville famously remarked: “I used to think if
Corporate Knights defines clean capitalism as an economic system in which prices incorporate social, economic and ecological benefits and costs, and participants know
In April, Aviva Investors commissioned Corporate Knights Capital, the investment research and financial products arm of Corporate Knights Inc., to investigate the state
Most executives would agree, even if not openly, that we have a systemic design flaw in our economy. It is set up
The debate at Rio+20 in late June was about “natural” capital. Just days earlier, world leaders attending the G20 summit in Mexico
The most fascinating thing about Bob Willard’s The New Sustainability Advantage is that it is not really a book. It’s more like
In an economic downturn marked by a rise in government austerity measures, non-profits focused on sustainability are finding it more difficult than
Proving you have never invested in the slave trade or a gun maker would be rather simple. More difficult is to prove
The climate fight hasn’t been easy. International climate negotiations have proven ineffective. Environmentalists have been out-gunned by big oil and old king
There’s a train leaving the station, one with a green paint job, and neither the United States nor Canada is on it.
This article was published by the Center for American Progress. The Green Climate Fund created at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Socialism collapsed because it did not allow the market to tell the economic truth. Capitalism may collapse because it does not allow
If I were to hand you a suitcase full of glittering gambling chips and give you a seat at the grand game
“If you’re a company with $1 billion in profit and give away $1 million, it doesn’t matter. What I’m more interested in
I am honored to be invited as a regular contributor to Corporate Knights. Corporate Knights has obviously built a leading brand in
The onslaught has already begun. Fund companies are laying the guilt on thick, ratcheting up the fear factor in a heated competition
British Columbia Investment Management Corp. is mining gold from green buildings. The fund manager includes B.C.’s seven public sector pension funds and
