Global Issues
Technology and Environmental Sustainability
Media expert Tim O'Reilly provides insight into how innovative technologies can be used to support sustainable development and power the future.
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Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health (more)
Foundation of the Future?
PopTech has evolved from an annual technology gathering to a social innovation accelerator that curates international conferences, initiatives, labs, and fellowships. Can it live up to its ambitions?
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Global Issues
Technology and International Development
USAID Chief Innovation Officer Maura O'Neill leads a discussion on how connection technologies can support sustainable development.
Managing Our Way to Economic Decline, Revisited
Businesses worldwide are putting themselves at risk if they don’t respond effectively to the story of climate change.
Accelerating Job Creation Results
An innovative investment opportunity to increase results—not rhetoric—on quality job creation for all.
Lance Armstrong and the Contagion of Unethical Behavior
The dangers of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal reach far beyond performance-enhancing drugs.
Philanthropic Opportunities for Climate Adaptation
Why climate adaptation matters, and five powerful pathways for funders to fuel change.
Keeping Climate Change Out of the Presidential Campaign
The complete absence of climate change from the first two presidential debates was the best thing that could have happened to the cause.
Sustainable Development in India
The restoration of the Bangalore Lakes can catalyze an overall sustainable transformation of the various districts of Bangalore—as well as reclaim an important historical connection for the city.
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Hotel Africa: The Politics of Escape
Hotel Africa offers a new African narrative, one that spans the economy, politics, and more from the perspective of an author on the ground.