Environment
Squaring Global Poverty with Climate Change
Meeting the energy demands of modern society without destroying the planet will require a new approach to climate and energy issues.
Tag: Climate Change
Food
Food Doesn’t Grow in Silicon Valleys
A focus on innovation can be an impediment to genuine progress in the food system.
Philanthropy
Three Lessons from 13 Years of Strategic Philanthropy
The complexity of social change is what makes strategic philanthropy valuable.
Review
Water
Future Thirst
Meeting the world's growing demand for water will require advances in technology that build on 3,000 years of progress.
Global Issues
Climate Change: What Is Our Goal?
It’s time to restructure the climate problem from averting a distant global catastrophe to minimizing collective suffering.
Health
Lessons in Forging Global Change
The successful 15-year campaign to eliminate mercury-based medical devices provides lessons for others creating large-scale social change.
Review
Cities
Saviors at City Hall?
Urban leaders offer a model for tackling big global problems that nation-states are failing to address.
Review
Environment
A Man of His Time
The founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute pursues an unfinished agenda.
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Environment
Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy
Creating Climate Wealth discusses business model innovations that will help battle the effects of climate change.
Environment
Deploying Proven Technology for Climate Change
Business model innovation is more important today than new technology innovation if we want to stave off the worst impacts of climate change.