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Analysis, interviews, and book reviews on ethics, globalization, and sustainability by Policy Innovations staff and partners.
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Our top stories this year spanned the range of global issues, with particular focus on energy and climate, global poverty and hunger, and the role of business in society. Thank you again for your dedicated readership. We look forward to the next five years.
Ultimatums. Floods. Ecotage. More than 200 novels have been written that imagine life in a climate-changed world, and they point to some of the fundamental difficulties we have in articulating a just and sustainable future.
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Mara Hvistendahl
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09/30/11
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Investing in the future of women would have been more expensive than providing methods for reducing their numbers, and it would have taken longer to yield results, but it would have been a good in itself.
Lisa Hymas
Grist
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09/26/11
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The world population will hit 7 billion this year. Here are some facts about the world's people that you might not know.
David Biello,
Josh Lasky,
Mat McDermott,
Bill McKibben,
Christopher Mims,
Paul Steely White,
Eric Zencey
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
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09/23/11
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What is the most important thing a person can do to have a sustainable impact? From consumer purchases to political action, how should we prioritize solutions?
We need to maximize not GDP but the economy's sustainably delivered well-being. Before we can maximize it, we need to measure it.
Paul Steely White
Transportation Alternatives
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09/23/11
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With Washington under the sway of climate change deniers, it is easy to feel despondent. The cure is to focus on winning real results where you live.
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Christopher Mims
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09/23/11
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Until we start acting like climate change is the actual emergency scientists tell us it is, nothing will get done. We need to kick into adaptation mode, now.
Changing our technologies is necessary, but without also changing our metaphysical relation to the planet, technological change will bring only superficial results.
There is a fundamental human virtue, often overlooked, that can unlock the immense potential to develop sustainable and satisfying systems.
After auditing and reducing your personal energy consumption, the most important thing you can do to be sustainable is: Vote.
Bill McKibben
350.org
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09/23/11
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You simply can't make the math work to solve climate change one household at a time, or one campus, or one congregation, or one anything. You have to get organized.
Focusing on women's fertility diverts our attention from the role of industrial agriculture, extractive industries, luxury consumption, and militarism in causing environmental degradation.
The 1994 Cairo conference put reproductive choice in the hands of women, but women living in poverty need more than empty pledges so that they too can take part in saving the Earth.
Women's rights are key to achieving a sustainable population. Fertility rates remain high where women's status is low.
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