Tyler J. Hamilton

Tyler Hamilton is a Canadian author, journalist, blogger and outspoken advocate for development of a global green economy. Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine, a quarterly publication distributed in Canada through the Globe and Mail and in the United States through the Washington Post. It is North America’s only magazine dedicated to corporate sustainability issues and promoting the concepts of clean capitalism and Green GDP. Hamilton is also energy and green technology writer for the Toronto Star, a role he has held for six years at Canada’s largest daily newspaper. Previously, he spent five years as the paper’s high-tech and telecommunications reporter. His coverage explores emerging green technologies and companies, the people behind them, and related research that is helping Canada and the world move toward a low-carbon economy. He writes a weekly column called Clean Break that explores trends, issues and technologies in the clean energy space. Hamilton also maintains a personal blog by the same name, at www.cleanbreak.ca, which complements the topics covered in his column. The blog attracts more than 20,000 readers monthly from around Canada, the United States, Europe and parts of Asia. In fall 2011, Hamilton published the book Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and Their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy (ECW Press), which details the journey of energy invention and struggles that many unconventional innovators and entrepreneurs face in their efforts to be taken seriously. A year earlier the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance – the largest high-tech trade association in Canada – named Hamilton science and technology “reporter of the year” for his coverage of the cleantech sector. The same year he was named sustainable electricity “journalist of the year” by the Canadian Electricity Association. In 2008, he was named one of the most influential media personalities on green issues by Green Living Magazine. In 2005, Hamilton was recognized with a “Cleantech Pioneer Award” for being the first mainstream journalist in North America to have a column dedicated to clean technology and innovation coverage. Hamilton was recently appointed an adjunct professor at York University’s faculty of environmental studies, where he will assist in the creation of a new sustainable energy lab. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Lyne, and their two daughters Ruby and Claire.