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| We Need a Better Measure of GDP in Poor Countries |
| Bill Gates | 05/16/13 |
| If GDP is an inaccurate indicator of growth in poor countries, how can we make good decisions about allocating development aid? | |
| Investing 2.0: Assessing True Sustainability |
| Bill Baue, Cary Krosinsky, Mark McElroy | 05/13/13 |
| We need to develop investment strategies explicitly tied to objective, science-based planetary boundaries and local ecological thresholds. | |
| Mattia Romani |
| Mattia Romani is deputy director general, Global Green Growth Institute. |
| Laura Raynolds |
| Laura T. Raynolds is codirector of the Center for Fair and Alternative Trade Studies and professor of sociology at Colorado State University. |
| Douglas Murray |
| Douglas Murray is codirector of the Center for Fair and Alternative Trade Studies and professor of sociology at Colorado State University. |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Mined Fair for the Fair-minded |
| Kenneth Porter, Evan O'Neil | 02/14/13 |
| The Alliance for Responsible Mining is working to bring ethical gold to the retail jewelry market through a new Fairtrade and Fairmined Standard. | |
| Exporting Expertise: Lessons from Brazil's Forest Success |
| Doug Boucher, Evan O'Neil | 02/13/13 |
| It took a broad group of actors to reduce Brazilian deforestation by 75 percent in seven years. Now, their success can be emulated in other tropical countries. | |
| Think Impact |
| Fair Trade Marketing: An Alternative System for Globalization Development |
| 02/11/13 | |
| Fair trade marketing gives consumers the option of paying higher prices for imported goods so that developing world producers can have a decent standard of living. | |
| Ecological Cooperation in South Asia: The Way Forward |
| Saleem H. Ali | 01/25/13 |
| Resilience to environmental stressors such as flood and drought will be enhanced by regional approaches to ecological cooperation. | |
| Doug Boucher |
| Doug Boucher is director of Climate Research and Analysis and director of the Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative for the Union of Concerned Scientists. |
| Union of Concerned Scientists |
| Buds of Hope |
| Raji Ajwani-Ramchandani | 12/11/12 |
| With technical assistance from a local NGO, poor farmers in Maharashtra have been able to supplement their seasonal income by cultivating organic jasmine buds. | |
| Using ICT to Enable Agricultural Innovation Systems |
| 10/23/12 | |
| The potential of ICTs to help small farmers exchange information is clear. World Bank and FAO hosted a discussion on current projects that are expected to bring beneficial results. | |
| Food and Agriculture Organization |
| Seed, Fertilizer, and Innovation in Bangladesh |
| 10/22/12 | |
| How can resource-poor farmers gain access to beneficial new technologies? A new paper from the International Food Policy Research Institute looks at agricultural markets in Bangladesh. | |
| Ethics Matter: A Conversation with Bill McKibben |
| Bill McKibben, Marlene Spoerri | 10/16/12 |
| Global warming is a test of whether our big brain really was a smart adaptation. Is it connected to a big enough heart, a big enough ethical sense, to get us out of the trouble it caused? | |
| Can Bioregionalism Go Global Before Collapse? |
| Richard Evanoff, Evan O'Neil | 08/10/12 |
| Bioregionalism proposes an alternative future in which overconsumption is drastically reduced, the natural environment is preserved, and proactive measures are taken to provide basic needs. | |
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