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Innovations
A narrative commons for all the ideas, people, technologies, behaviors, and organizations that are working to improve global sustainability.
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Dani Rodrik
Project Syndicate
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05/14/12
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Does the development spark reside in bottom-up projects, or do macro-level economists have all the answers? The best recent work indicates a convergence of the two camps around diagnostic, pragmatic, experimental, and context-specific strategies.
Alexander Ochs,
Evan Musolino
Worldwatch Institute
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05/11/12
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Worldwatch is partnering with IRENA to help governments develop policies that can best utilize renewable energy's potential for national growth and development.
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Raji Ajwani-Ramchandani
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03/13/12
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Through patient cultivation of organic permaculture mango orchards, Adivasi families in India have been able to build sustainable income and connect to the larger processed food markets.
The incoming president of the World Bank should create a more sophisticated system for classifying countries as low or middle income, using a broad swath of development indicators.
Nancy Merrick
Kasiisi Porridge Project
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02/24/12
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An innovative NGO in Uganda has helped bring daily porridge to hungry schoolchildren, and it is now expanding with a 20-acre multipurpose farm and indigenous forest to make the project sustainable.
Gabriele Köhler
International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs)
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01/09/12
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As a country endowed with valuable resources, Myanmar is ripe for social and economic innovation. A decent work and social protection agenda combined with an industrial strategy would help it through its time of political transition.
Achim Steiner
Project Syndicate
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11/28/11
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Since the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species entered into force in 1983, it has led to agreements to conserve more than 26 creatures, so that future generations can also marvel at these nomads of the natural world.
Peter Williams
ARCHIVE
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10/27/11
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An open innovation design competition in Haiti has yielded housing prototypes that can improve ventilation and potentially reduce the transmission of infectious diseases.
Eric Chivian,
Rigoberta Menchú
Project Syndicate
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10/11/11
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The trust fund to protect Ecuador's rain forest needs $100 million by the end of the year, or else the call for oil drilling will become unstoppable. The international community must not let this happen.
A front-line implementer of the Genuine Progress Indicator explains his epiphany of seeing GDP growth diverge from alternative measures of well-being.
Dani Simons
Institute for Transportation & Development Policy
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09/16/11
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Urban advocates, planners, officials, and artists join forces each September to install miniature parks and pop-up cafes in parking spaces normally reserved for cars.
Project Syndicate
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09/07/11
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The United States and Europe signed a historic agreement to cooperate against the global scourge of pirate fishing through better monitoring and enforcement.
Instead of mandating a minimum investment in energy-efficiency programs, policymakers are designing incentives that reward utilities with new revenue for meeting or exceeding conservation goals.
Erin Klett
Verité
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07/22/11
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Verité's new Fair Hiring Toolkit is a clearinghouse of tools and techniques for managing labor brokers and protecting migrant workers from exploitation during recruitment.
A global minimum wage system would establish a set of rules for determining local minimum wages, and it would reconnect wages with productivity growth.
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