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With an unconventional planning methodology, the Urban Think Tank envisions solutions for the barrio communities of Caracas.
Peter Zahler
Wildlife Conservation Society
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03/10/10
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Afghanistan's rich heritage of biodiversity is threatened by conflict. Yet conservation matters for more than just wildlife: It can, and should, provide a way for rural Afghan communities to manage their natural resources.
Robert Senser
SweatFree Communities
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03/01/10
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Although efforts to adopt decent labor standards through free trade agreements are stymied on the international level, a network of activists are working to make ethical procurement a government priority in the United States.
Geoff Lawton,
Evan O'Neil
Permaculture Research Institute
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02/09/10
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Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute discusses how to strategize and deploy sustainable local food production across Haiti as part of earthquake relief and long-term recovery.
Andrew Macdonald,
Evan O'Neil
Islay Energy Trust
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02/05/10
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An innovative tidal power installation off the coast of Scotland could help demonstrate the ocean's potential for delivering renewable energy.
The Global Innovation Commons is a massive interactive archive of energy-saving technologies whose patents have expired, been abandoned, or simply have no protection.
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Anjanette DeCarlo,
Saleem H. Ali
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01/19/10
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A composite indicator is needed to substantiate the impact of community-led reconciliation processes and to better target sustainable development aid in post-conflict zones.
Bernard Salomé,
Evan O'Neil
Millennium Foundation
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11/30/09
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Policy Innovations talks with Bernard Salome, managing director of the Millennium Foundation, about raising funds for global health through small donations made when people purchase travel.
If vulnerable developing countries make a commitment to carbon neutrality, those opposed to change have nowhere left to hide.
The Breakthrough Institute
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11/12/09
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Modeled on the National Institutes of Health, a new National Institutes of Energy would effectively apply R&D funding to the goal of developing new, low-cost commercial clean energy technologies.
Gar Alperovitz
AlterNet
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10/21/09
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Thousands of alternatives to the corporate model have sprouted up over the past few decades -- worker-owned companies and cooperatives, neighborhood corporations and trusts, community-owned technology centers, and municipally owned enterprises.
An economic restructuring based on a full understanding of the role of economic rent is needed for a new economic framework beyond both the old right and the old left.
The largest fuel shift in world history will push America's antiquated electricity system to evolve into a smart grid, and in the process it will also reshape the geopolitical energy map.
Certain resources are destined for depletion if they become locked into built infrastructure or recovery costs prove too high. But this could all change if more attention is paid globally to material cycling and consumer responsibility. We need a global strategy for efficient minerals extraction, use, and reclamation.
Nayan Chanda
YaleGlobal Online
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09/22/09
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Earlier this month in Rome, ninety-one countries reached an agreement to halt illegal fishing by denying unlawful catches the possibility of being landed in ports.
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