David is a very common first name, and Boyd is a reasonably common last name, but what is the chance of reviewing two different books about the environment by two different David R. Boyd’s, both of whom are environmental lawyers living on the West Coast? Or at least that was the conclusion that I inevitably drew when I read The Optimistic Environmentalist: Progressing Towards a Greener Future followed by …
Andrew Heintzman
Andrew Heintzman is the president of Investeco Capital, the first Canadian investment firm to invest exclusively in environmental companies. He is also author of The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future (House of Anansi Press, 2010).
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What is an environmentalist to do? Life used to be so simple. We knew who the bad guys were: large corporations like General Electric and Walmart that were leading the world toward inevitable collapse. The environmentalist’s job was to publicly shame them and to insist on governmental regulation for the public good. Simple.
Those were the good old…