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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. | |
| 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. | |
| What I Talk About When I Talk About Sustainability |
| Josh Lasky | 02/06/13 |
| The ease with which sustainability rolls off the tongue these days far surpasses our understanding of it or our implementation. A few changes in attitude could be helpful. | |
| 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. | |
| Send Salads to Ethiopia, and Solar Panels to Senegal |
| Todd Moss | 12/06/12 |
| We wouldn't send salads as food relief to a starving country, so why is the Overseas Private Investment Corporation doing the equivalent in the energy sector? | |
| Fighting the Resource Curse through Cash Transfers |
| Todd Moss | 11/26/12 |
| Through a system of transparency, dividends, and taxation called Oil to Cash, Todd Moss of the Center for Global Development proposes a democratic solution to the resource curse. | |
| One Year Later: The World's Largest Shark Sanctuary |
| Evan O'Neil | 10/23/12 |
| The Marshall Islands are celebrating the first year of a shark conservation zone, but a broader strategy is needed to preserve these top predators throughout the Pacific. | |
| 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? | |
| Rahul Mirchandani |
| Rahul Mirchandani is executive director of Aries Argo Limited, an Indian company that manufactures micronutrients and other nutritional products for plants and animals. |
| Asmita: Identity amid Crisis |
| Anukool Chavan, Girish Dixit | 06/25/12 |
| Two young entrepreneurs launched a venture combining ethical finance and scientific crop management to boost yields and profitability for the suicide-prone farmers of India. | |
| Anukool Chavan |
| Anukool Chavan is chairman of Asmita Agribusiness. |
| Asmita Agribusiness |
| Kate Wrangham-Briggs |
| Kate Wrangham-Briggs is an English language educator and director of the Kasiisi Porridge Project. |
| Nancy Merrick |
| Nancy Merrick is a physician internist, health care expert, and writer interested in the impact of human communities on chimpanzee survival. |
| Alexander Ochs |
| Alexander Ochs is director of climate and energy at Worldwatch Institute. |
| Worldwatch Institute |
