Health
The Moral Imperative of Clean Household Energy
The world’s poor and low-income countries need greater access to modern energy solutions, including clean-burning fossil fuels for household use.
Tag: Deforestation
Environment
Can Money Grow on Trees?
Across the world, businesses are making money by restoring forests and farmland.
Environment
Planting Trees With Drones
To fight deforestation, a UK-based startup is using unmanned aerial vehicles that can plant seeds 60 times faster than humans can.
Environment
Public-Planet Partnerships: Time to Ratify Our Free Trade Agreement with Nature
We protect nature. We learn from nature. But we are not collaborating with nature to solve the greatest challenges a human generation has ever faced.
Human Rights
Protecting the Heart of Environmental Civil Society
Three strategies for ensuring the safety and security of people defending their environment and human rights around the world.
Energy
Renewable Energy Won’t Change the World
Changing the composition of the world’s energy supply is important, but it’s only half the battle against climate change.
Business
The Business of Biodiversity
The benefits of environmental conservation and restoration reach far and wide, and across all sectors. More businesses need to realize the positive effects biodiversity has on their bottom line—and more governments need to pass legislation that protects biodiversity.
Environment
Five Ways to Advance Conservation Entrepreneurship
Meeting today’s growing conservation challenges requires that we find new ways of thinking about and practicing conservation, rooted in solving social problems through scalable methods and prototypes that deliver results.
Video
Foundations
Elusive Yardstick
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses one of the biggest challenges in the nonprofit world - how to evaluate progress and success.
Video
Foundations
Defining Risk in Philanthropy
Steve McCormick, president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, discusses what risk really means to both nonprofits and foundations, and why foundations should take more risks.