How a Nobel Prize in Economics Could Help Solve the Climate Crisis
A growing body of research that explains how human behavior helped create the climate crisis could also point the way toward solving it.
Social Issues - Articles
The Half-Truths That Have Sidetracked Girls’ Education
We are still falling short on girls’ education globally. It’s time for a new approach.
10 SSIR Articles on Climate Change Solutions
A collection of our articles highlighting environmental issues and climate change innovation.
Podcast
Bridging the Climate Change Investment Gap
Investments in discovering and developing new solutions to address climate change are woefully low and have even been falling. Sarah Kearney and Scott Burger discuss how can philanthropists help.
Investing in Our Future
Philanthropists and other impact investors play a critical role in funding risky, early-stage startups developing science-based solutions to climate change.
The Investment Gap that Threatens the Planet
To prevent drastic climate change, philanthropists must invest more in nascent solutions ignored by traditional capital markets.
Design Thinking for Higher Education
To meet the challenges of a new era, universities should redesign their core functions while also creating capacities to reach emerging and underserved markets. Open access to this article is made possible by BYU-Pathway Worldwide & ASU's Center for Organization Research and Design.
Can Measures Change the World?
Our ability to track and report is accelerating, resulting in a proliferation of measures. It’s time to focus more effort on understanding how those measures can be used to change complex social systems.
A Tax-Funded Nonprofit to Create Happy Families
Colombia’s Comfama has brought critical economic and social services to Medellín. Can this public-private hybrid continue to bolster the country’s growing middle class?
Unconventional Wisdom
The Rockefeller Foundation’s “scan and search” approach casts a wide net to identify the issues it’s best suited to tackle.