Despite being a vast continent of forests, fields, farmland, mountains and ice, North America is an urban society. In Canada, for example, 82 per cent
Hero: Procter & Gamble Officials at Procter & Gamble (P&G), the world’s largest consumer product brand, announced in April that 25 per cent of the
In today’s world of increasing global resource scarcity, it is more important than ever to make efficient use of our limited resources. One way of
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
Hero: Marks and Spencer The British department store Marks and Spencer (M&S) announced in late October it has committed to eliminating the use of toxic
Books have the power to change how we think and behave. Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species laid the foundation for evolutionary biology 153 years
Hero: General Electric General Electric announced in September that it had successfully recycled 100,000 refrigerators and freezers through the UNTHA Recycling Technology (URT) system. The
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
Last year, Vancouver-based Goldcorp was removed from the Dow Jones Sustainability Index as accusations swirled of human rights abuses and environmental contamination at several of
From the top of Amagerforbrænding, the largest of three garbage incineration plants located in downtown Copenhagen, is an idyllic panorama of the waterfront. A newly
Mike Berners-Lee has a proposal for saving the world: he wants to start charging people a penny for every e-mail they send. Doing so, he
It’s mid-summer and the air is thick. Thirteen riders form a peloton in the 10th stage of Le Tour De France, grinding their way through
Juergen Puetter could be labelled a shopaholic in renewable energy circles. A few years ago, the president of Aeolis Wind Power began locking up land
Guiyu, China is the biggest e-waste dumpsite in the world and one of the landscapes that starred in Ed Burtynsky’s documentary Manufactured Landscapes. According to
At the age of 86, Mary Rose Waquan has a steady hand as she pours filtered water into a colourful ceramic mug and takes a
