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Toby A.A Heaps

LumiSolair LED streetlights at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Photo courtesy of LumiSolar
Built Environment/Cleantech/Energy/Spring 2014

Street smarts

by Toby Heaps

After several hours of driving on a dark rural highway, the first distant glimpse of a roadside streetlight can be a sight

Toronto skyline
Built Environment/Energy/Spring 2014

Energy reporting helps cities

by Toby Heaps

Buildings are a main source of energy use and greenhouse gases. In Toronto, for example, 60 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, with Transportation Minister Glen Murray (left, wearing poppy) and Finance Minister Charles Sousa (right), announce provincial green bonds program on Oct. 30.
Leadership/Winter 2014

Rewarding sustainable wealth

by Toby Heaps

The father of capitalism, Adam Smith, wrote: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the

power lines
Cleantech/Energy/Perspectives/Spring 2013/Supply Chain/Voices/Water

Power lines and pipelines

by Toby Heaps

If a Martian were to look down on our great continent today, he (as Men are from Mars) would see a land

Standard and Poor's exterior
Climate Crisis/Perspectives/Responsible Investing/Voices/Winter 2013

Risky resources

by Toby Heaps

At the beginning of the Clinton administration in the early 1990s, political advisor James Carville famously remarked: “I used to think if

Blueprint for clean capitalism Illustration by Mark Smith
Cleantech/Climate Crisis/Leadership/Natural Capital/Perspectives/Responsible Investing/Voices/Winter 2013

Blueprint for clean capitalism

by Toby Heaps

Corporate Knights defines clean capitalism as an economic system in which prices incorporate social, economic and ecological benefits and costs, and participants know

Henry Minztberg Illustration by Jack D.
Leadership/Perspectives/Q&A/Winter 2013

Getting back in balance

by Toby Heaps

Henry Mintzberg is a man who believes that the key to prosperity, however one defines it, lies in creating the right balance.

Black Swan
Climate Crisis/Energy/Perspectives/Voices/Winter 2013

Not if, but when

by Toby Heaps

David Keith is a Harvard physics professor, geo-engineering entrepreneur and trusted advisor to Bill Gates. Michael Liebreich is chief executive of Bloomberg New

Dick Cheney Illustration by Jack D.
Climate Crisis/Energy/Leadership/Perspectives/Voices/Winter 2013

Villain or visionary?

by Toby Heaps

Most people would not identify the 46th Vice-President of the United States as a pioneer of green energy. Ironically, thanks to a

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