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| Breaking the Binary |
| 04/26/13 | |
| This Schwab Foundation guide for scaling social innovation examines case studies of policy experimentation from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. | |
| Lisa Oldring |
| Lisa Oldring is Special Advisor to Mary Robinson, Chair of the GAVI Fund Board. |
| Robert M. Cutler |
| Robert M. Cutler is an Energy Security Specialist and Fellow of the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa. |
| Sustainable, Happy, Efficient |
| Eric Zencey | 03/26/13 |
| Only through a composite metric of progress and happiness can governments measure and deliver what matters most: sustainable well-being. | |
| Rohit Malpani |
| Rohit Malpani is a Senior Campaigns Advisor at Oxfam America, where he currently manages Oxfam's access to medicines campaign. |
| Shefa Siegel |
| Shefa Siegel is a writer, researcher, and professor focused on mining, the environment, and religion. |
| The Missing Ethics of Mining |
| Shefa Siegel | 02/15/13 |
| Mining is the material basis for life, yet there is no international law governing mining projects. We are ready to discuss almost any other ethics before the ethics of mining. | |
| John Haffner |
| John Haffner is an entrepreneur, consultant, and writer based in China and engaged in a variety of clean technology projects. |
| Power, Process, Purpose: Elected Members of the Security Council Can Be Effective |
| Alex Bellamy, Tim Dunne | 11/12/12 |
| When they are prepared to work hard and innovate, non-permanent members can leave an indelible mark on the UN Security Council, as Canada did through its activism on the Angola sanctions committee. | |
| Finding the Keys to National Prosperity |
| Jeffrey Sachs | 09/27/12 |
| Swedish pensions. Canadian health care. Costa Rican happiness. American science. By opening our eyes to policy successes abroad, we would speed the path to national improvement in countries around the world. | |
| Repairing the Shattered Sky |
| Steve Dorst, Evan O'Neil | 08/15/12 |
| A new film looks at American leadership during the ozone crisis and compares it to the situation with global warming today. The clock is ticking for the United States to step up to the plate this time around. | |
| Michael Ignatieff |
| Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian author, academic, and former politician. |
| EARTH DAY 2012: Resources from Carnegie Council |
| 04/20/12 | |
| These multimedia resources explore what it means to be sustainable; some practical solutions; the role of legislation; and finally, what we can learn from fictional visions of a climate-changed world. | |
| The Race for What's Left |
| Michael T. Klare, Joanne Myers | 03/28/12 |
| What I see is an epic struggle emerging between the world's major industrial powers and the world's major resource corporations for control over what remains of the world's primary resources, says Michael T. Klare in this Public Affairs Program. | |
| Maya Pedal |
| The Climate Change Novel: A Faulty Simulator of Environmental Politics |
| Adam Trexler | 11/07/11 |
| 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. | |
| Mining a Grave Concern in Guatemala's Election |
| Kathryn M. Martorana | 09/09/11 |
| Strong natural resource management is essential for a young democracy, yet Guatemala's human rights advocates face death threats after a failed presidential debate on mining. | |
| Exporting Energy Security: Keystone XL Exposed |
| 08/31/11 | |
| The construction of Keystone XL will feed the growing trend of exporting refined products out of the United States, thereby doing nothing to enhance energy security or to stabilize oil prices or gasoline prices at the pump. | |
| Don't Build Keystone XL, the Pipeline to Nowhere |
| Evan O'Neil | 08/15/11 |
| Higher gas prices, negligible energy security, more global warming: The logic stacks up against extending the Keystone tar sands pipeline. Will Secretary Clinton deny the permit? | |
| Bruce Aylward |
| Bruce Aylward is a Canadian physician and epidemiologist and head of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at the World Health Organization. |
