Growth. It's not about plant growth, hair growth or growth in quality of life, it's about economic growth. And the kind that is measured in GDP. However, Rio+20 might mark a paradigm shift in the way we measure growth and wealth.
Elischia Fludd | Posted 05.28.2012
In the big lead up to Rio+20, the community concerned about sustainable development is all a-buzz. But critics note that the level of civil society input lacks luster.
Elischia Fludd | Posted 04.26.2012
I was curious: How were their respective fields addressing sustainability within poverty eradication and peace? The colleagues at my table responded with thoughtful silence.
Michael P. Owens | Posted 04.12.2012
I spent the past month researching and visiting venues that embrace sustainability as a core value of their business. A few thousands calories later (and one small hangover), I am happy to share my findings with you.
Jonathan Kirby | Posted 04.09.2012
Roughly one out of every eight people on the planet do not have enough clean water to drink. Combine this fact with the design thinking of Dieter Rams, "Good design is as little design as possible..." and it's easy to see why we ended up asking ourselves, how do we do more, with less?
Brooke Edwards | Posted 04.08.2012
This weekend, roughly 2 billion Christians around the world will celebrate one of the most important religious holidays of the year. Along with the ...
Mark Hostetler | Posted 04.06.2012
In the end, all environmental pledges are important but I have seen many people purchase compact fluorescent bulbs and place solar panels on their homes only to irrigate, fertilize, spray pesticides and mow their expansive lawns.
Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.26.2012
More people in the world are living better, but the natural world that underpins this prosperity is constantly being eroded.
Monica Gutierrez | Posted 05.22.2012
When are we going to realize that we are all humans and all human issues concern us all? Can we get our act together and just do something? Or have we reached our ultimate frontier? There is no easy answer.
William S. Becker | Posted 05.19.2012
Three governors and the Premier of British Columbia announced an action plan to make the Pacific Northwest's homes more energy efficient, its vehicles less dependent on oil, and its communities less vulnerable to the threat of global climate change.
Reid Hoffman | Posted 05.15.2012
In Silicon Valley, we deploy technologies and networks to change the world. Can we deploy these techniques in an effort to break the worldwide cycle of poverty at a scale in the millions?
Johann Tergesen | Posted 04.29.2012
How can we revolutionize the food system to ensure that healthy proteins, an essential nutrient for human health, are available to a global population estimated to reach from 7.5 to 10.5 billion people by 2050?
Will Turner | Posted 04.15.2012
Developed and developing economies cannot continue to ask the world's poor to shoulder the burden of protecting globally important ecosystem services for everyone else's benefit without compensation in return.
Melanie Walker | Posted 03.24.2012
The microfinance revolution created new ways for the world's poor to secure loans. But microfinance institutions normally don't have the capacity or authority to finance community-level infrastructure projects.
Aron Cramer | Posted 02.18.2012
What happens in our oceans does not stay in our oceans.
Steven Cohen | Posted 02.04.2012
One of his greatest lasting legacies as mayor will be the integration of environmental protection and economic development. Michael Bloomberg is New York's first sustainability mayor.
William S. Becker | Posted 01.25.2012
How would our lives be improved if we deployed the best sustainable development technologies and practices? How would it impact future generations?
Kazuhiko Takemoto | Posted 01.21.2012
Changing behaviors now will benefit the rights, health and well-being of future generations to come. It is our shared responsibility to make sure this happens.
Vicki Gass | Posted 01.11.2012
What was more terrible than the civil war of the 1980s and Hurricane Mitch, which ravaged the region in 1998? Tropical Depression 12-E, a storm that dropped more than five feet of water over ten days, forcing 60,000 people into shelters.
Steven Cohen | Posted 12.31.2011
We are now part of a fast changing global economy that will require constant adjustments if we are to take full advantage of the talents of our people. It is not acceptable to passively acquiesce to what is starting to look like permanently high levels of unemployment.
Karin Badt | Posted 12.21.2011
Cineastas de Granada has helped over 100 girls empower themselves with a camera by teaching girls how to find their stories, choose their shots and put the film into production.
Steven Cohen | Posted 12.17.2011
Like many in my generation, my first taste of political involvement was in the movement to end the war in Vietnam and achieve civil rights. As a teena...
Organic Authority.com | Posted 11.30.2011
A document signed by more than 50 civil society organizations (CSOs) is asking the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development scheduled to take place in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in June 2012, to ban the use of genetically modified foods.
Michelle Chan | Posted 10.01.2011
You would think that the Obama administration and Congress would want to make sure that the money they spend is spent wisely. That certainly doesn't appear to be the case when it comes to the World Bank Group.
Steven Cohen | Posted 09.24.2011
I find the discussion of deficits and cutting benefits curiously devoid of content. These cuts are not economic theories but economic realities; they have real impact on real people.
Peter Bjerregaard | Posted 06.01.2012