Chris Turner
Location:
Calgary, Alberta
Styles:
Advertorials, Blogging, Case studies, Columns, Corporate Communications, Essays, Features, Humour, Investigative Reporting, Personal Journalism, Profiles, Promotional copy, Social media, Speechwriting, Web
Subjects:
Agriculture & agri-food, Architecture, Arts, Automotive, Biotechnology, Books & literature, Business, Communication technologies, Culture & community, Design, Earth sciences, Energy, Entertainment (film, television, theatre), Environment, Family & parenting, Fisheries and oceans, Food, Forestry, Gaming, Government, Information & communication technologies, Kids products, Law & crime, Leisure goods & activities, Manufacturing, Marketing, Men, Music, Natural Resources, New media, Non-profit, Politics, Recreation & leisure, Restaurants, Science & technology, Society, Transportation, Travel & tourism, Wilderness & wildlife
Bio:
Chris Turner is an award-winning journalist and one of Canada's leading writers and speakers on climate change, sustainability and the global cleantech industry. He is the author of the bestseller The Geography of Hope (2007), a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Nonfiction and the National Business Book Award. He is also the author of the international bestseller Planet Simpson (2004). He is at work on a new book about the global sustainability movement, which will be published in 2011.
Publications/Client List:
- Fast Company
- The Walrus
- The Globe and Mail
- Report on Business
- Canadian Geographic
- Azure
- Utne Reader
- Time
- Alberta Views
- Access Review (FedEx customer magazine)
Books:
- The Great Leap Sideways (Random House, forthcoming 2011; working title)
- The Best Canadian Essays 2010 (Tightrope Books, forthcoming 2010; contributor)
- The Best Canadian Essays 2009 (Tightrope Books 2009; contributor)
- The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (Random House 2007)
- Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation (Random House 2004, revised ed. 2008)
Other Projects:
- Fleck Fellowship, Banff Centre, 2010
- co-founder, CivicCamp Calgary, 2009
- featured speaker, Deakin Innovation Lectures, Melbourne, Australia, 2008
- keynotes/lectures at 13 university campuses, 4 literary festivals and approx. 30 major professional and industrial conferences nationwide, 2008-10
Awards:
- National Magazine Awards: 6 Gold (essays 2009/2008, politics & public interest 2009, President’s Medal for General Excellence 2001, science & technology 2001, one-of-a-kind articles 1999), 1 Silver (one-of-a-kind articles 2001), 7 Honourable Mentions
- 2 Western Magazine Awards
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