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Built Environment - Page 18

Tree pruning in Durham, North Carolina. Photo by Ildar Sagdejev
2013 Sustainable Cities/Built Environment/Energy/Leadership/Spring 2013

Shifting from grey to green

by Faisal Moola

Despite being a vast continent of forests, fields, farmland, mountains and ice, North America is an urban society. In Canada, for example,

Lagos, Nigeria. Photo by Stefan Magdalinski
2013 Sustainable Cities/Built Environment/Leadership/Spring 2013

Jumbo shrimp

by Daniel Hoornweg

North America’s big cities are getting smaller relative to their peers on a growing world stage

July 2013 Flood in Toronto. Photo by Eastmain
Built Environment/Perspectives/Transportation/Voices

Toronto’s green decline

by Tyler Hamilton

I’m sitting at home watching the late-night local news and the biggest story of the hour is the flooding of Toronto’s Don

Built Environment/Cleantech/Leadership/Summer 2012/Supply Chain

Spotlight on biomimicry

by Yasmin Ghahremani

Twelve years ago, carpet-tile maker Interface hit it big with biomimicry, and it’s been full steam ahead ever since. Having read biologist

Loblaws, Empress Walk, North York, Ontario, 2007
Built Environment/Food/Summer 2012/Voices

Heroes & zeros: vol. 5

by CK Staff

Hero: Loblaws Loblaws, the Canadian supermarket chain with over 70 stores, announced in June that it is on track to meet its

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Perspectives/Spring 2012/Waste

Burn after reading

by Jeremy Runnalls

From the top of Amagerforbrænding, the largest of three garbage incineration plants located in downtown Copenhagen, is an idyllic panorama of the

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Spring 2012

The nature effect

by Faisal Moola

In the early 1990s the Clinton administration put a stop to logging in huge swaths of old growth forest in the U.S.

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Energy/Health & Lifestyle/Spring 2012

Rise of the anthropocene

by Chris Wodskou

It’s a potent image of the early 21st century: the wind farm.Colossal white towers striding across farmland or wading mightily offshore. Some

Built Environment/Cleantech/Education/Summer 2011

More emerald than ivory

by Jens Ourom

At first glance, the University of British Columbia’s on-campus incorporation of a biodiversity museum might not resonate as a particularly good omen

Built Environment/Climate Crisis/Comment/Energy/Perspectives

The nuclear dilemma

by Boyd Cohen

Amongst those of us in the climate strategy world there has been an ongoing debate about the potential role of nuclear energy

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