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The Happiest Nation In The World Is...

Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: World's Happiest Country, Norway, Global Economy, Columbia University, Netherlands, World Happiness Report, Finland, Scandinavia, Earth Institute, Denmark, World News

Denmark has taken the top spot on the United Nation's first ever World Happiness Report, followed by Finland, Norway and the Netherlands. The 158-...

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Green Jobs and Educating the Sustainability Managers of the 21st Century

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Green Jobs, Management, Green Economy, U.S. Green Jobs, Green Energy, Green News
Steven Cohen

In some ways, the specific definition of a green job is less important than the fact that it is now measured and considered important enough to track.

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Scientific Research and a Sustainable Planet

Steven Cohen | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Environmentalism, Sustainability, Earth Institute, Research Funding, U.S. Science Funding, Science Funding, Sustainability Management, Earth Science Funding, Green News
Steven Cohen

With a global population that is projected to reach 10 billion by 2050, the crucial question emerges -- how do we extract our needs from the planet without destroying it?

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Why the World Bank Needs Jeff Sachs at the Helm

Michael Shank | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Robert Zoellick, United Nations, World Bank, Larry Summers, Asia, Climate Change, Michael Shank, Ban Ki-Moon, George Mason University, Kathmandu, Timothy Geithner, Earth Institute, Portugal, Greece, Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, National Peace Academy, Italy, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Jeffrey Sachs, Institute for Economics and Peace, Africa, Latin America, Income Inequality, European Union, Jeff Sachs, The End of Poverty, Columbia University, Millennium Development Goals, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Hillary Clinton, Development, Poverty, Spain, Kenya, Jeffrey Sachs World Bank, World News
Michael Shank

Given the World Bank's focus on poverty, economics and climate, and given Sachs' wealth of experience in all three, there is no better candidate.

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2012's Not-Quite Hopeless U.S. Climate Policy

Steven Cohen | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Renewable Energy, Public Policy, Climate Policy, Energy Efficiency, Earth Institute, Global Warming, Clean Economy, Green News
Steven Cohen

While I do not hold out much hope for a new U.S. climate bill this year, there are plenty of other actions now underway. Young people understand the challenges of global sustainability and I am convinced that the situation is far from hopeless.

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Timor-Leste Beauty

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 12.02.2011

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Howard Steven Friedman

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Hurricane Irene and the Routine of Emergency Response

Steven Cohen | Posted 10.29.2011

Read More: Hurricane Irene, Long Beach, Earth Institute, Emergency Preparedness, Politics News
Steven Cohen

All of the advanced preparation and response to the storm prevented death, injury and damage. We may have escaped the worst imaginable catastrophe this time, but perhaps we won't next time. It is better to be inconvenienced than dead.

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Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe and Governor Andrew Cuomo's Policy to Close Indian Point

Steven Cohen | Posted 10.15.2011

Read More: Sustainability, Andrew Cuomo, Earth Institute, Japan Earthquake, Indian Point Nuclear Plant, Japan Nuclear Crisis, Nuclear Power, Green News
Steven Cohen

Japan may be far away from New York and in a very different part of the planet, but let's remember what happened there earlier this year.

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Open Letter to President Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia University

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lee Bollinger, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University?S Committee on Global Thought, European Union Election Observation Mission Ethiopia, Jeffrey Sachs, Lee C. Bollinger, H.R. 2003, Joseph Stiglitz, William Easterly, Human Rights Watch Ethiopia, Earth Institute, Birtukan Midekssa, Meles Zenawi, Voice of America, S.B. 3757, Mahmood Ahmadinejad Columbia, World News
Alemayehu G. Mariam

September 17, 2010 President Lee C. Bollinger Office of the President Columbia University 202 Low Library 535 West 116th Street New York, NY 10027...

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Low-Cost Thrills in Millennium Village Data

John W. McArthur | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Foreign Aid, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Millennium Promise, G8 Summit, Malawi, United Nations, Malaria, Millennium Villages Project, Sustainable Development, Green Revolution, g20, G20 Summit, Mdgs, Sub-Saharan Africa, Millennium Development Goals, G8, Millennium Villages, Safe Drinking Water, Earth Institute, Global Poverty, Fighting Malaria, Poverty Alleviation, MDG Summit, Impact News
John W. McArthur

Yesterday, May 30, the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited the Millennium Villages project (MVP) in Mwandama, Malawi. While there he ...

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Meet the Amazing Aroon Shivdasani of NYC's Indo-American Arts Council

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

Indo-American Arts Council founder and executive director Aroon Shivdasani has lived all over the world but has called New York home for about half he...

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Peter Buffett and Angelique Kidjo Release Single to Support Girls in Africa

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Luce

I have been trying to interview Emmy Award-winning composer/philanthropist Peter Buffett for two years. I wrote about Grammy Award-winning UNICEF G...

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Richard Reiss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Creativity, Jeffrey Sachs, OurGoods.Org, Economics, Climate Change, Rhode Island School of Design, James Cameron Avatar, Earth Institute, Artist as Citizen, Trade School, CUNY Sustainable Cities, Copenhagen Climate Conference, Bartering, Columbia, Rushkoff, Kahneman, Avatar, Green News
Richard Reiss

Our cultural habits still come from an expansionist idea that would suit a civilization that actually has mastered space travel. But in real life we just have this planet.

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Haiti's Tomorrow May Be Rooted In Trees, Fertilizer

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Restoration, United Nations Environment Program, Soil, Knight Foundation, Agriculture, Aid, Plots, Knight Center for International Media, Jobs, Flooding, Plan, Trees, Dredging, Farms, Canals, Earth Institute, Countryside, Dominican Republic, Miami, Wood, Poverty, Crops, Tradition, Earthquake, Fire, University of Miami, Haiti, Fertilizer, Rivers, Columbia University, Environment, Food, Charcoal, Marc Levy, World News
Joseph B. Treaster

The task of restoring Haiti's countryside is extremely difficult and could even be impossible. But the restoration work for a healthy countryside would provide more food and jobs, and make flooding less severe.

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Haiti Earthquake: Greening of Hillsides Can Bolster Recovery

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: United Nations Environment Program, Soil, Knight Foundation, Green, Knight Center for International Media, Earth, Tents, Trees, Crop, Port-Au-Prince, Earth Institute, Countryside, Miami, United States Agency for International Development, Hurricanes, Jeffrey Sachs, Poverty, Forest, Corn, Flood, Seed, Earthquake, Plant, Mountain, University of Miami, Haiti, Rivers, Firewood, Rice, Columbia University, Water, Deforestation, Food, Sustainability, Jacmel, Marc Levy, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

Now with parts of Haiti in ruin and perhaps 200,000 people dead, the tree-planting and the soil sampling have halted. But the catastrophe makes it more critical than ever that Haiti be re-greened.

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A New Approach to Global Problem-Solving

John W. McArthur | Posted 05.25.2011

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John W. McArthur

Obama's critics must ask: Which among macroeconomic coordination, food production, energy, climate change, or disease control could be considered optional at this stage?

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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