Mira Shenker

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Is The World Ready For Your Innovation?
Our current retail system is set up to sell new products, which are used and then disposed of – very much a linear (and inefficient) process. The Closed Loop system implies that once products are used they can be reconditioned and brought back into the sales loop
Europe`s future depends on cities resilient to climate change
Around three quarters of Europeans live in cities. Most of Europe's wealth is generated in cities, and urban areas are particularly at risk due to climate change.
Microsoft Taxes Itself - Will it be enough to drive change?
This week, Microsoft is announcing an unusual initiative that it hopes will change how the company operates. Microsoft is charging every division and data center for the carbon emissions they generate. Will it be enough to drive change?
Life Cycle Approaches Key to Canada's Competitivenes
The National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy today released a new report that identifies the need for Life Cycle Approaches in environmental and economic decision-making by companies and government.
Clean mining association launched
A new industry association has been launched aimed at supporting and advocating technological advancements to make the mining industry cleaner and more environmentally responsible.

Mira Shenker

Executive Editor, ReNew Canada Magazine, Canada

Mira is the executive editor at Actual Media Inc. and has
been the editor of ReNew Canada, the infrastructure industry's only comprehensive news source, since 2007. Mira specializes in environmental journalism, and regularly writes on topics ranging from green building and sustainable development to public-private partnerships.

She has been involved with a variety of national industry events and conferences, as chair, presenter and moderator. She is a member of several industry associations including the American Public Works Association and the Canada Green Building Council. When she's not working on Actual Media's many projects, Mira is organizing events through Actual Media's new charitable arm, Actual Karma.