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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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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.
Kathryn M. Martorana
Oxfam America
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07/12/11
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The SEC has an opportunity to demonstrate that the United States takes transparency and accountability seriously and intends to act as a global leader in fostering secure, equitable, long-term resource partnerships with developing nations.
Sara Potler
Dance 4 Peace
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07/11/11
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From Bogota to the Bronx, Dance 4 Peace is teaching young people the empathy and social skills they need to promote peace in their communities.
Achim Steiner,
Joshua Reichert
Project Syndicate
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06/20/11
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Marine management remains a fragmented patchwork of national and international bodies, with separate and often overlapping jurisdictions, and no global accountability.
Justin Gerdes
chinadialogue
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06/09/11
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Though their ridership stats are heading in opposite directions, China and San Francisco are both committed to bicycle policy innovations.
George Soros
Project Syndicate
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06/08/11
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The campaign to ensure that extractive industries disclose all payments in their host countries is gaining momentum, and France is leading the effort.
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