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Andrew Heintzman is president and co-founder of Investeco, the first Canadian investment company to focus exclusively on investing in environmental sectors. He is also the Chair of the Premier's Climate Change Advisory Panel for the Province of Ontario. He sits on a number of corporate boards, including Lotek Wireless, Triton Logging and Rowe Farms Inc. He is a director of the Tides Canada Foundation, and the Steering Committee on Sustainable Prosperity, and past chairman of The Sustainability Network. He also sits on the Board of Advisors for the Munk School of Global affairs at the University of Toronto.

Before joining Investeco, Andrew Heintzman was a co-founder and publisher of Shift Magazine, an award-winning consumer magazine about technology. He was also a founder of d~Code, a youth-marketing firm. He holds a BA and an MA in English literature from McGill University, and his writing has been published in such periodicals as The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, enRoute, Alternatives, Essays on Canadian Writing and the Literary Review of Canada. A highly-regarded public speaker, he is a brother of Bullfrog Power's Tom Heintzman, and lives in Toronto.

In his recent book, The New Entrepreneurs, Heintzman profiles entrepreneurs who are developing green technology in sectors such as forestry, water, agriculture and energy. He views capitalism as a powerful instrument for social and economic change, and is deeply concerned that Canada's lack of a coherent national strategy on the most important economic questions of our timewill reduce our future competitiveness, productivity and prosperity. He advocates taking action now to move away from the extractive industries towards an economy based on knowledge and ideas.


Books

The New Entrepreneurs: Building a Green Economy for the Future (2010)
Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy is Changing Everything (co-editor, 2003)
Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine
Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future
All of Andrew Heintzman's books are published by the House of Anansi Press.


Links


Profile on Investeco Site

Sustainable Prosperity Site
Treehugger Podcast

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