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Lloyd Alter

Climate Crisis/Spring 2021/Sustainable Book Reviews

Bill Gates’s climate fixes don’t add up

by Lloyd Alter

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

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

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

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Cleantech/Summer 2013/Waste

A world without waste

by Lloyd Alter

A decade ago, William McDonough and Michael Braungart wrote Cradle to Cradle, a book that environmentalist David Suzuki called “groundbreaking” and a “Bible

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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, didn’t need

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