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Agriculture & Food

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On

It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On0

By Hunter Lovins

Planetary Emergency We are in a planetary emergency.1 Make no mistake about that. As the twinned crises of climate2 and biodiversity loss3 worsen, apocalyptic messages become more common.4 Yet is …

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Solutions for a Win-Win Partnership between Agriculture and Biodiversity

Solutions for a Win-Win Partnership between Agriculture and Biodiversity0

By Lauriane Mouysset, Rodolphe Sabatier, Félix Teillard, Luc Doyen, Frédéric Jiguet, François Léger, Muriel Tichit

Biodiversity underpins a number of ecological processes crucial to agricultural production. Agro-landscapes are instrumental for the conservation of biodiversity, including wild and domestic …

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Transformation of agriculture and food systems: Application of TEEBAgriFood Framework

Transformation of agriculture and food systems: Application of TEEBAgriFood Framework0

By Harpinder Sandhu, Alexander Müller, Pavan Sukhdev

Agriculture is the foremost agenda for many governments around the world due to growing demand for diverse types of food from increasing and wealthier populations. Although global agriculture …

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Does Inclusivity Really Matter? The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in Farm-Based Internship Programs

Does Inclusivity Really Matter? The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in Farm-Based Internship Programs0

By Braden Biel, Dania LaScola, Erica Berejnoi, Scott Cloutier, Joshua MacFadyen

Introduction Opportunities to work in the food system, at many scales, are plentiful but, often, only for a select few. Greater diversity and inclusivity is needed to both educate a diverse …

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Arts

Educating the World through Entertainment

Educating the World through Entertainment0

Wouldn’t it be more effective if communities around the world could learn about HIV/AIDS or empowering women from entertaining radio and television shows, instead of pamphlets? Well, Equal Access …

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Flood Plain Wall

Flood Plain Wall0

By Daniel McCormick, Mary O'Brien

Carson River, 2014. The Nature Conservancy’s River Fork Ranch Preserve, Minden, Nevada. 270 feet long. Woven and live-staked Coyote Willow harvested from the river. Photographer: Mary …

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Nonprofit Uses Star Power to Bring Environment to the Spotlight

Nonprofit Uses Star Power to Bring Environment to the Spotlight0

If environmental concerns found a wider audience in the last three decades, The Environmental Media Association (EMA) has played a significant role in it. Based in Beverly Hills, the nonprofit …

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Syrian Refugees Reclaim Childhoods through Arts Therapy

Syrian Refugees Reclaim Childhoods through Arts Therapy0

By Nihal Kayali

For many children escaping the Syrian war, the trauma of violence and loss lingers long after the journey away from home. In Sultanbeyli, a suburb of Istanbul with a burgeoning refugee …

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The Search for Real, Integrative Solutions

The Search for Real, Integrative Solutions0

By Robert Costanza

This inaugural issue of Solutions marks the beginning of what we hope will be a long and fruitful dialogue across our global society. To help build a shared vision of where our society wants to …

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Generously Good Graffiti

Generously Good Graffiti0

By Dawn Starin

Our urge to create graffiti has probably been around since the beginning of humankind. Certainly in Portugal, it has been around for tens of thousands of years. At the Prehistoric Rock Art Sites …

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Biodiversity

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan

A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan0

By The Club of Rome, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

For 10,000 years, human civilisation has grown and thrived because of Earth’s remarkable climate stability and rich biological diversity. In the last 50 years, human activity has severly …

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It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On

It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On0

By Hunter Lovins

Planetary Emergency We are in a planetary emergency.1 Make no mistake about that. As the twinned crises of climate2 and biodiversity loss3 worsen, apocalyptic messages become more common.4 Yet is …

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The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts

The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts0

By Elizabeth Caniglia

Key Concepts: Regenerative Development, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, Global Compact, International Standards Organization, Social and Environmental Responsibility   …

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Interdisciplinarity and Social Ecological Systems

Interdisciplinarity and Social Ecological Systems0

By Sanchayan Nath

In 2009, Rockstrom et al published an article titled ‘Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity’. This article introduced us to the idea of planetary boundaries. …

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Built Capital

Creating an Ecologically Cognizant and Socially Beneficial Monetary Regime: Why money needs to be transformed and key strategies for its transition.

Creating an Ecologically Cognizant and Socially Beneficial Monetary Regime: Why money needs to be transformed and key strategies for its transition.0

By Joshua Breen

The current monetary regime is debt-based and interest-bearing, meaning that debt is greater than the money supply. The current creation and structure of money, consisting of positive interest …

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The National Western Center and the Sun Valley EcoDistrict: Infusing Large-Scale Urban Development Projects With Sustainability

The National Western Center and the Sun Valley EcoDistrict: Infusing Large-Scale Urban Development Projects With Sustainability0

By Jocelyn Hittle, Chris Parr

Situated against the Rocky Mountains and connected to the western edge of the agricultural heartland of the U.S., Denver has long had a focus on the wise management of our natural resources. We …

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Building Denver’s Green Infrastructure Program: Meeting Multi-Faceted Problems with Multi-Pronged Solutions

Building Denver’s Green Infrastructure Program: Meeting Multi-Faceted Problems with Multi-Pronged Solutions0

By Ashlee Grace

Denver is a city in transition. Ranked as one of the best places to live in the country,1 Denver ‘s population is booming. Over the past five years, the city has averaged close to 2.1% annual …

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The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts

The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts0

By Elizabeth Caniglia

Key Concepts: Regenerative Development, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, Global Compact, International Standards Organization, Social and Environmental Responsibility   …

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Wellbeing Economy: A Paradigm for the 21st Century

Wellbeing Economy: A Paradigm for the 21st Century0

By Lorenzo Fioramonti

For the past century, most societies have adopted a narrow definition of economic growth as the route to development. Growth has become an end in itself, as a result of which, the true meaning of …

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Tiny Houses, Big Ideas

Tiny Houses, Big Ideas0

By Ryan Mitchell

In a time when the “American Dream” tells us that bigger is better, people are downsizing their space to make more room in their lives. Tiny Houses are small homes, often built by …

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Business

A 2-minute Solution to Progressing Duty of Care in Sport

A 2-minute Solution to Progressing Duty of Care in Sport0

By Jane Lowder, Jeff Lowder, David Lavallee

Duty of Care in Sport has not previously been defined outside of legal terminology and implications. However societal expectations on what duty of care means have grown beyond this and sports are …

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Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

Read more
Creating an Ecologically Cognizant and Socially Beneficial Monetary Regime: Why money needs to be transformed and key strategies for its transition.

Creating an Ecologically Cognizant and Socially Beneficial Monetary Regime: Why money needs to be transformed and key strategies for its transition.0

By Joshua Breen

The current monetary regime is debt-based and interest-bearing, meaning that debt is greater than the money supply. The current creation and structure of money, consisting of positive interest …

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Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?

Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?0

By Keith Murray

Following on from my thoughts published in the April 2019 issue of The Solutions Journal, I started to reflect on what was written and wondered if it would be of interest to readers to know how …

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Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home

Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home0

By Robert C. Thornett

Charting a New Path to Ireland: Set Jin Lee This June, eighty kilometers north of Dublin, Set Jin Lee was the only Malaysian student to graduate from Ireland’s Dundalk Institute of Technology …

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Circular economy

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Building a Circular Economy: How to Solve the Mixed Waste Problem at Company Level

Building a Circular Economy: How to Solve the Mixed Waste Problem at Company Level0

By Louise Sörme, Joacim Rosenlund, Bo Bergbäck

The Resource Challenge: The Transition to a Circular Economy The concept of circular economy (‘CE’) emphasizes the necessity to move away from a linear economy based on a ‘take, make and dispose’ …

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Cities

Fracture Lines: On Urban Metabolism, Ethics, and Feeding the Cities of the Future

Fracture Lines: On Urban Metabolism, Ethics, and Feeding the Cities of the Future0

The city has increasingly been recognised as having significant importance for climate mitigation. Over 54% of the world’s population are now living in cities, and greater that 60% are expected …

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The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability

The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability0

By William D. Powers, Karina Mariaca de Oliveira, Hilvert Timmer

Summary Projections suggest that two out of three humans will live in cities by 2030.1 However, emerging counter-urbanization movements challenge this trend. In the heart of South America, …

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Climate Change

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

Read more
Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

Read more
A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan

A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan0

By The Club of Rome, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

For 10,000 years, human civilisation has grown and thrived because of Earth’s remarkable climate stability and rich biological diversity. In the last 50 years, human activity has severly …

Read more
It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On

It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On0

By Hunter Lovins

Planetary Emergency We are in a planetary emergency.1 Make no mistake about that. As the twinned crises of climate2 and biodiversity loss3 worsen, apocalyptic messages become more common.4 Yet is …

Read more
Seeding Change by Visioning Good Anthropocenes

Seeding Change by Visioning Good Anthropocenes0

By Laura M. Pereira, Elena Bennett, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Astrid Mangnus, Albert V. Norström, Garry Peterson, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, My Sellberg, Joost Vervoort

The Earth system is now arguably in a novel, uncertain planetary era – the Anthropocene – in which human activities are a major planetary force1. These changes have largely been brought about …

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Climate Consciousness Artist Kito Mbiango on the Power of Art to Drive Action on Climate Change

Climate Consciousness Artist Kito Mbiango on the Power of Art to Drive Action on Climate Change0

By Jill Van den Brule

We have a climate emergency. Regardless of where one stands on this issue – this is our ‘inconvenient truth’. Yet the power to reach people has never been greater. Close to 3.2 Billion …

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Communication

A Parliamentary Victory for Co-Editor-in-Chief: Congratulations, Lorenzo Fioramonti

A Parliamentary Victory for Co-Editor-in-Chief: Congratulations, Lorenzo Fioramonti0

By Elizabeth Caniglia

It was a lovely November day at the Wellbeing Economy Festival in Pretoria, South Africa when Lorenzo told our Solutions editorial team he had chosen to advise Italy’s Five Star Movement on …

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Editorial – A new life for Solutions

Editorial – A new life for Solutions0

By Lorenzo Fioramonti

Solutions is starting a new life in 2018.  After having originated in the United States and then moved to Australia, our journal has now decided to give more space to a variety of voices from …

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REFUNITE: Connecting Refugees

REFUNITE: Connecting Refugees0

With the number of displaced people exceeding 65.3 million around the world, one mobile tool offers to connect refugees to long-lost family members and friends. Already a success, REFUNITE was …

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We Feel Your Pain: Environmentalists, Coal Miners, and “Embedded Environmentalism”

We Feel Your Pain: Environmentalists, Coal Miners, and “Embedded Environmentalism”0

By Nives Dolšak, Aseem Prakash

Why are some policies enacted quickly, while others are delayed or never enacted at all? One might argue that if the aggregate benefits of a policy exceed aggregate costs, the policy will be put …

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Practical Systems Thinking: Guidance to Effect Change

Practical Systems Thinking: Guidance to Effect Change0

By Karim Chichakly

As readers of Solutions, we are well aware of the large social, economic, and environmental challenges that face us. Einstein told us we will need to use new ways of thinking to solve these …

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The New Oprah – A New Arabic Language Talk Show that Lifts Taboos on Women

The New Oprah – A New Arabic Language Talk Show that Lifts Taboos on Women0

By Christina Asquith

For more than 20 years, Iraqi-born Zainab Salbi founded and ran Women for Women International, a DC-based, global women’s rights organization. In 2008, she published a best-selling memoir, …

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Community

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown0

By Elizabeth Walsh

“What time is it on the clock of the world?” The late warrior-philosopher, community-builder, and movement-shaper, Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) used to ask this question at the start of most …

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Seeding Change by Visioning Good Anthropocenes

Seeding Change by Visioning Good Anthropocenes0

By Laura M. Pereira, Elena Bennett, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Astrid Mangnus, Albert V. Norström, Garry Peterson, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, My Sellberg, Joost Vervoort

The Earth system is now arguably in a novel, uncertain planetary era – the Anthropocene – in which human activities are a major planetary force1. These changes have largely been brought about …

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Show Up Hard: A Road Map for Helpers in Crisis

Show Up Hard: A Road Map for Helpers in Crisis0

By Olivia G. Ford

“What if your job is not to be right or knowledgeable,” Shannon Weber, MSW, asks readers; “What if your role is to create change?” Weber herself employs this question as a …

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Lessons from Denmark: Enhancing Human Well-being with Urban Green Spaces

Lessons from Denmark: Enhancing Human Well-being with Urban Green Spaces0

By Danielle Vermeer, Lauren Bell, Camille Medeiros, Tatyana Plummer, Scott Cloutier

In a world of rapid urbanization, communities are losing green spaces to concrete jungles. Without green spaces, the economy, the environment and society are compromised. Imagine taking a walk …

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12-Year-Old Starts Solar Solution:  Neighborhood Rooftop Solar Co-ops Driving Expansion State by State

12-Year-Old Starts Solar Solution: Neighborhood Rooftop Solar Co-ops Driving Expansion State by State0

By Deirdre Macnab

As a speaker on solar energy speaking to community groups around Florida and Colorado, I like to wake my audience up with a couple of questions. “How many of you in the audience have thought …

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Reimagining Our Sustainable Future: Gabby in Paradise

Reimagining Our Sustainable Future: Gabby in Paradise0

By Joe Tankersley

Gabby and Danh were sitting on a bench carved from a giant bodi log that washed onto the beach of their community in a recent hurricane. Like other storm debris, this one had been repurposed by …

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Conflict Resolution

A Concerned Citizen: Civics in Action. Bo Boudart Producer and Director. Bullfrogfilms.com (2019)

A Concerned Citizen: Civics in Action. Bo Boudart Producer and Director. Bullfrogfilms.com (2019)0

By Tim DeChristopher

“What can I do? What can I do?” That is the question constantly asked of Riki Ott, and not only does she have an answer, she has a whole curriculum about what citizens can do and have done to …

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Supporting Community Resilience in Armed Conflict and Protracted Violence – Putting Dignity Back into Humanitarian Assistance

Supporting Community Resilience in Armed Conflict and Protracted Violence – Putting Dignity Back into Humanitarian Assistance0

By Marcus C. Oxley

  1. Introduction The number of armed conflicts is on the rise, with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region being particularly affected. According to World Bank President “By 2030, …

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Making Partnerships Work: A Stormwater Example

Making Partnerships Work: A Stormwater Example0

By Bruce Hull, Seth Brown

The complexity and scale of environmental challenges often exceed the capacities of individual organizations. Partnerships provide a strategy to marshal the needed resources, skills, and …

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Scaling Up Education in a Climate of Crisis

Scaling Up Education in a Climate of Crisis0

By Molly Bernstein

As their rickety boat approaches shore, sending ripples across the surface of the glossy river water, 17-year-old Filipe and a handful of his classmates hop off and head to class. Teachers are …

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Conflict-Free in the Congo

Conflict-Free in the Congo0

By Jennie Spector

While humanity’s use of electronics is tainted with unpleasant aspects—ranging from the need for “suicide nets” under the windows of Chinese iPhone factories to the numerous …

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Israel and Palestine: Boycotts, Divestments, Sanctions, and the Future

Israel and Palestine: Boycotts, Divestments, Sanctions, and the Future0

By Kendall Bousquet

Is a boycott of Israel an effective strategy for changing the government’s policy? Those in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement think so. BDS has seen several victories in …

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Conservation

Opening the Gates: Making a National Wildlife Refuge Accessible to  Diverse Communities

Opening the Gates: Making a National Wildlife Refuge Accessible to Diverse Communities0

By Scott Gilmore

As I contemplate how I would discuss the “Solution” to the challenges of making a seven-square mile piece of land, formerly considered one of the most polluted places on the planet, accessible to …

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Prioritizing Floodplains to Restore the Health of the Mississippi River Basin.

Prioritizing Floodplains to Restore the Health of the Mississippi River Basin.0

By Kris A. Johnson, Bryan P. Piazza, Jeffrey D. Fore, Melissa Motew, Eugene Yacobson

The Problem The Gulf of Mexico set a record in 2017: it contained an area of water the size of New Jersey (22,729 km2) that could not support life. Aptly named the “Dead Zone”, the water near the …

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Managing Conflicts in the River of Grass

Managing Conflicts in the River of Grass0

By Stephanie S. Romañach, James M. Beerens, Larry Perez, Saira M. Haider, Leonard G. Pearlstine

Chances are, you would not pack up and move to a new home without first researching the neighborhood, reviewing your finances, and maybe investigating schools nearby. Similarly, you would not buy …

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Enhancing coastal wetland resilience to SLR: just add water?

Enhancing coastal wetland resilience to SLR: just add water?0

By John F. Meeder, M.S. Ross, R.W. Parkinson, S. Castaneda

The Problem Freshwater management activities designed to mitigate salt water encroachment (SWE) for freshwater vegetation in Biscayne Bay coastal wetlands needs to be done at a level that could …

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Turning on the faucet to a healthy coast

Turning on the faucet to a healthy coast0

By Beth A. Middleton, Paul A. Montagna

The Problem The freshwater faucet has been turned off to many coastal bays, estuaries, and wetlands to supply the voracious needs of humans. Freshwater extraction from rivers is increasing as …

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Balancing Wetland Restoration Benefits to People and Nature

Balancing Wetland Restoration Benefits to People and Nature0

By Luca Marazzi, C. Max Finlayson, Peter A. Gell, Paul Julian, John S. Kominoski, Evelyn E. Gaiser

Loss, Restoration and Multiple Values of Wetlands Where data exists, it has been shown that humans have destroyed 50-87% of the world’s original wetlands1, leaving about 12 million km2 of wetland …

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Economy

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

Read more
Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

Read more
Creating an Ecologically Cognizant and Socially Beneficial Monetary Regime: Why money needs to be transformed and key strategies for its transition.

Creating an Ecologically Cognizant and Socially Beneficial Monetary Regime: Why money needs to be transformed and key strategies for its transition.0

By Joshua Breen

The current monetary regime is debt-based and interest-bearing, meaning that debt is greater than the money supply. The current creation and structure of money, consisting of positive interest …

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Reckoning GDP by Counting Chemical Bond Exchanges

Reckoning GDP by Counting Chemical Bond Exchanges0

By John E. Coulter

In managing how the world should work, an influential article in Nature …

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Regenerative Community Hubs: Creating a Finer Future in your Place

Regenerative Community Hubs: Creating a Finer Future in your Place0

By Hunter Lovins

How do you create a finer future where you live? The Regenerative Communities Network, founded by Capital Institute’s John Fullerton and Stuart Cowan has an answer. Hundreds of people and almost …

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Review of “A Finer Future” by Wijkman, Lovins, Fullerton and Wallis

Review of “A Finer Future” by Wijkman, Lovins, Fullerton and Wallis0

By Mairi-Jane Fox

Book review According to the opening line in A Finer Future, “This book is a warning.” Subtitled creating an economy in service to life, this book is also an expansive vision-giver. What …

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Ecosystem Services

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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Reconciling Ecosystem Services with Economic Theory and Policy

Reconciling Ecosystem Services with Economic Theory and Policy0

By Thomas Tunstall

Conventional economic models fail to incorporate a full picture of long-term drivers of economic activity and societal benefit. In the quest for a false sense of precision, the models have become …

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Shifting The Burden: Using a Questionnaire and Panel Review to Ensure that Ecosystem Services are Taken into Account in Project Appraisal

Shifting The Burden: Using a Questionnaire and Panel Review to Ensure that Ecosystem Services are Taken into Account in Project Appraisal0

By Larry Susskind, Sam Barnard

The Problem: A Gap Between Ecosystem Services Theory and Practice Natural ecosystems are being lost to development in fast-growing countries around the world. While land development may often be …

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He Tangata: It Is People

He Tangata: It Is People0

By Vicky Forgie, Marjan van den Belt

Quantifying the benefits humans derive from ecosystem services is important if they are to be taken into account in the current political climate. Such valuation provides an appreciation of the …

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Paying for Water in Uganda: Is Paying Upstream Land Users a Possible Solution?

Paying for Water in Uganda: Is Paying Upstream Land Users a Possible Solution?0

By Tom Sengalama, Emmanuelle Quillérou

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment defines ecosystem services as the benefits people obtain from ecosystems.1 They are the multiple commodities that are supplied by ecosystems and constitute the …

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Ecosystems

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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The Regenerative Mindset And Five Essential Capabilities For Practitioners0

By Josette M. Plaut, Emily Amedée

The need for a regenerative approach “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein Most of today’s sustainability efforts, while …

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Interdisciplinarity and Social Ecological Systems

Interdisciplinarity and Social Ecological Systems0

By Sanchayan Nath

In 2009, Rockstrom et al published an article titled ‘Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity’. This article introduced us to the idea of planetary boundaries. …

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Half-Earth or Half Solution?  E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss

Half-Earth or Half Solution? E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss0

By Mike Rotkin

Despite my somewhat snarky title, which is based on my assessment that Half-Earth is missing a key strategic component, E. O. Wilson’s book is engaging and even inspiring. Wilson makes a …

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Revitalizing Plant-based Knowledge in Northeast India

Revitalizing Plant-based Knowledge in Northeast India0

By Sanjeev Shankar

Approximately two-thirds of India’s population of 833 million people resides in rural areas, with one-fourth of that population living below the poverty line. These individuals are forced …

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Education

Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home

Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home0

By Robert C. Thornett

Charting a New Path to Ireland: Set Jin Lee This June, eighty kilometers north of Dublin, Set Jin Lee was the only Malaysian student to graduate from Ireland’s Dundalk Institute of Technology …

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Using EnviroAtlas to Build K-12 Environmental Literacy

Using EnviroAtlas to Build K-12 Environmental Literacy0

By Jenna Hartley, Carolyn Pugh, Kathryn Stevenson, Jessica Daniel

The Challenge: Building Environmental Literacy in K-12 Students Environmental science in the United States is at a critical point: in the face of numerous environmental challenges, the public …

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Review of PIPs Rewards: Valuing the Good You Do Every Day

Review of PIPs Rewards: Valuing the Good You Do Every Day0

By Wendy Gordon

In review Imagine earning points for the good you do everyday, then turning those points into great deals on healthy, organic and local food or to pay school expenses. That’s what’s …

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Growing Urban:  Environmental Engagement Challenges Posed by Urbanization and  Opportunities Offered by Garden Based Learning

Growing Urban: Environmental Engagement Challenges Posed by Urbanization and Opportunities Offered by Garden Based Learning0

By Anna Floyd

Our Innate Need for Communion with Nature In 1984, biologist E.O. Wilson coined the term “biophilia.” According to Wilson, biophilia captures the idea that human beings, because of our …

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Puerto Rico’s Post-Maria Crisis: An Opportunity to Transform the Higher Education System for Sustainable Development and Innovation

Puerto Rico’s Post-Maria Crisis: An Opportunity to Transform the Higher Education System for Sustainable Development and Innovation0

By Gloria Bonilla-Santiago

Introduction Puerto Rico’s recovery after the catastrophic events caused by Hurricane Maria in September 2017 requires a sustained and large-scale strategy that engages multiple sectors, the …

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A Marketing Plan for Scientists: Building Effective Products and Connecting with Stakeholders in Meaningful Ways

A Marketing Plan for Scientists: Building Effective Products and Connecting with Stakeholders in Meaningful Ways0

By Claudette Ojo, Kate Mulvaney, Marisa Mazzotta, Walter Berry

In Brief More than ever before, scientists are under tremendous pressure to demonstrate the usefulness of their work. While millions of dollars are spent yearly to fund the production of various …

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Employment

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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SGDs in Action: Short Films Review

SGDs in Action: Short Films Review0

By Sabrina Watkins

Short films can be useful to spark conversation at the office or around the dinner table. In business, they can provide an educational moment about sustainability in a meeting, technical or …

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Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home

Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home0

By Robert C. Thornett

Charting a New Path to Ireland: Set Jin Lee This June, eighty kilometers north of Dublin, Set Jin Lee was the only Malaysian student to graduate from Ireland’s Dundalk Institute of Technology …

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What is Work? European Court Says Travel Time is Work Time

What is Work? European Court Says Travel Time is Work Time0

By Devin Windelspecht

The Working Time Directive is one of the European Union’s cornerstone laws protecting workers’ rights. Passed in 2003, the law stipulates that workers employed by companies operating …

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It’s Not Just a Headline—Working Shorter Hours Does Help the Environment

It’s Not Just a Headline—Working Shorter Hours Does Help the Environment0

Working shorter hours may save the environment. This recommendation from the UN International Resource Panel’s most recent report, published on July 20, made headlines around the world. …

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Breaking the Menstruation Myth in India

Breaking the Menstruation Myth in India0

By N'dea Yancey-Bragg

Of the 355 million menstruating women in India, only 12 percent of them use sanitary napkins, according to a study done by A.C. Nielsen. The vast majority simply cannot afford them, and so they …

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Energy

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan

A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan0

By The Club of Rome, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

For 10,000 years, human civilisation has grown and thrived because of Earth’s remarkable climate stability and rich biological diversity. In the last 50 years, human activity has severly …

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SGDs in Action: Short Films Review

SGDs in Action: Short Films Review0

By Sabrina Watkins

Short films can be useful to spark conversation at the office or around the dinner table. In business, they can provide an educational moment about sustainability in a meeting, technical or …

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It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On

It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On0

By Hunter Lovins

Planetary Emergency We are in a planetary emergency.1 Make no mistake about that. As the twinned crises of climate2 and biodiversity loss3 worsen, apocalyptic messages become more common.4 Yet is …

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The End of Pesticides

The End of Pesticides0

By Steve Marriot

It has long been known that certain fish can detect the minute electro-magnetic field (EMF) transmitted by Algae in order to track their food source over several kilometers. On land, beetles and …

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Collective Impact for Climate Mitigation

Collective Impact for Climate Mitigation0

By R. Bruce Hull, Rich Dooley

The key causes and solutions to climate change are urban. Urban businesses, residents, land uses, and the supply chains that support them emit approximately 70 percent of greenhouse gasses.1-2 …

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Environment

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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Half-Earth or Half Solution?  E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss

Half-Earth or Half Solution? E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss0

By Mike Rotkin

Despite my somewhat snarky title, which is based on my assessment that Half-Earth is missing a key strategic component, E. O. Wilson’s book is engaging and even inspiring. Wilson makes a …

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Building a Circular Economy: How to Solve the Mixed Waste Problem at Company Level

Building a Circular Economy: How to Solve the Mixed Waste Problem at Company Level0

By Louise Sörme, Joacim Rosenlund, Bo Bergbäck

The Resource Challenge: The Transition to a Circular Economy The concept of circular economy (‘CE’) emphasizes the necessity to move away from a linear economy based on a ‘take, make and dispose’ …

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Overcoming Open Waste Dumping Practices in Sri Lanka

Overcoming Open Waste Dumping Practices in Sri Lanka0

By Shanishta Rajendra

The practice of open waste dumping is a significant issue in Sri Lanka. Between 1999 and 2009, the amount of solid waste generated daily rose from an estimated 6,500 tons to 7,500 tonnes.1 Of …

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Does the Environmental Movement Need New Messengers?

Does the Environmental Movement Need New Messengers?0

By Aseem Prakash, Nives Dolšak

Al Gore is routinely identified as a leading environmentalist, the public face of the environmental movement.1 Some might even view him as a modern-day Rachel Carson. His efforts to “build up and …

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Financing

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Creating an Ecologically Cognizant and Socially Beneficial Monetary Regime: Why money needs to be transformed and key strategies for its transition.

Creating an Ecologically Cognizant and Socially Beneficial Monetary Regime: Why money needs to be transformed and key strategies for its transition.0

By Joshua Breen

The current monetary regime is debt-based and interest-bearing, meaning that debt is greater than the money supply. The current creation and structure of money, consisting of positive interest …

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A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan

A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan0

By The Club of Rome, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

For 10,000 years, human civilisation has grown and thrived because of Earth’s remarkable climate stability and rich biological diversity. In the last 50 years, human activity has severly …

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Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?

Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?0

By Keith Murray

Following on from my thoughts published in the April 2019 issue of The Solutions Journal, I started to reflect on what was written and wondered if it would be of interest to readers to know how …

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The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability

The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability0

By William D. Powers, Karina Mariaca de Oliveira, Hilvert Timmer

Summary Projections suggest that two out of three humans will live in cities by 2030.1 However, emerging counter-urbanization movements challenge this trend. In the heart of South America, …

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Living in a Well-meaning Lie: Valuing all Voices?

Living in a Well-meaning Lie: Valuing all Voices?0

By Jindra Cekan

Poor villagers like Edith, Aminata, Rituu, and Juan don’t appear much on the nightly news.  You might never know they exist unless you stop and read your mail from some charity asking you to help …

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Fire

Resolving the Increasing Risk from Wildfires in the American West

Resolving the Increasing Risk from Wildfires in the American West0

By Ray Rasker

Wildfires have always been part of living in the American West, but today they are bigger, burn longer, cause more damage, and kill more people than ever before. Much of this drama plays out on …

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Indigenous Australians Fight Climate Change with Fire

Indigenous Australians Fight Climate Change with Fire0

By Scott Heckbert, Jeremy Russell-Smith, Andrew Reeson, Glenn James

One of Australia’s greatest challenges is the persistent socioeconomic disadvantage faced by Aboriginal (Indigenous) people. This is particularly acute in the more remote regions of northern …

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Fisheries

Transforming Bulk Seafood Harvesting by producing the Most Authentic Wild Fish

Transforming Bulk Seafood Harvesting by producing the Most Authentic Wild Fish0

By Garry Wilson, Greg Johansson, Dave Woods, Ross McIsaac, Steve Penno, James Palmer, Charles Heaphy, Alistair Jerrett, Suzy Black, Gerard Janssen, Damian Moran, Graham Stuart, Ross Tocker, Robin Connor, Nathan Reid, Eric Barratt, Katherine Short, Bill Falconer

Precision Seafood Harvesting was catalysed by two scientists in 2005 noticing in video footage of inside a fishing net, that there was a low velocity waterflow zone just in front of the cod-end …

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Social Media and Celebrity Chefs: Promoting Sustainability in Fisheries

Social Media and Celebrity Chefs: Promoting Sustainability in Fisheries0

By Hilde M. Toonen, Alice M.M. Miller

What’s for dinner on your menu tonight? More so than ever before, it is becoming safe to assume there will be some fish or shellfish landing on your plate, as seafood consumption is on the rise. …

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Global Fishing Watch: A Public Check On Overfishing

Global Fishing Watch: A Public Check On Overfishing0

By Devin Windelspecht

Over the past 40 years, the number of recorded marine species has decreased by around 39 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This extreme extinction rate is, in many ways, due to …

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Once Persecuted, Alligator Gar Now May Drive the Fight against Invasive Asian Carp

Once Persecuted, Alligator Gar Now May Drive the Fight against Invasive Asian Carp0

By Devin Windelspecht

Once derided as a “trash fish,” a nuisance that was driven to extinction in parts of the country in order to make room for angler-favored “sportfish,” the huge, toothy …

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Seafood in the Future: Bivalves Are Better

Seafood in the Future: Bivalves Are Better0

By Jennifer Jacquet, Jeff Sebo, Max Elder

The first animals we domesticated for food were sheep, around 9000 years ago, followed soon after by goats, cows, and pigs, and then, as recent as 2000 years ago, chickens. As human population …

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Transparency for Just Seafood Systems

Transparency for Just Seafood Systems0

By Megan Bailey, Niklas Egels-Zandén

An overfishing and overconsumption crisis has resulted in global declines of marine fish stocks. So while global population is increasing, the ability of our oceans to support that population …

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Food Security

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Fracture Lines: On Urban Metabolism, Ethics, and Feeding the Cities of the Future

Fracture Lines: On Urban Metabolism, Ethics, and Feeding the Cities of the Future0

The city has increasingly been recognised as having significant importance for climate mitigation. Over 54% of the world’s population are now living in cities, and greater that 60% are expected …

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Social Media and Celebrity Chefs: Promoting Sustainability in Fisheries

Social Media and Celebrity Chefs: Promoting Sustainability in Fisheries0

By Hilde M. Toonen, Alice M.M. Miller

What’s for dinner on your menu tonight? More so than ever before, it is becoming safe to assume there will be some fish or shellfish landing on your plate, as seafood consumption is on the rise. …

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Strategies and Initiatives Addressing Food Safety Problems in Contemporary China

Strategies and Initiatives Addressing Food Safety Problems in Contemporary China0

By Juan Liu

Public concerns around food safety have recently exploded in China, following a series of food safety incidents and scandals reported in the media since 2008. When it comes to food safety, …

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Seafood in the Future: Bivalves Are Better

Seafood in the Future: Bivalves Are Better0

By Jennifer Jacquet, Jeff Sebo, Max Elder

The first animals we domesticated for food were sheep, around 9000 years ago, followed soon after by goats, cows, and pigs, and then, as recent as 2000 years ago, chickens. As human population …

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Terracing: A Double-Edged Solution for Farming Difficult Landscapes

Terracing: A Double-Edged Solution for Farming Difficult Landscapes0

By Wilko Duprez

Let’s plan for a short trip back in time, shall we? Jump in your favorite time machine, check the gauges and spin the dial. Destination: the Mediterranean basin in the Stone Age, the …

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Forests

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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A Case for Conservation on a Human Scale

A Case for Conservation on a Human Scale0

By Neil Burgess, Katarzyna Nowak

As the American biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson said, “the worst part of ongoing planetary despoliation is biodiversity loss.”1 The term biodiversity refers to the variety of …

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Collaborative Leadership for Sustainable Development in Global Supply Chains: Partnering Across Sectors to Reduce Amazon Deforestation

Collaborative Leadership for Sustainable Development in Global Supply Chains: Partnering Across Sectors to Reduce Amazon Deforestation0

By R. Bruce Hull, David Robertson, Courtney Kimmel, Barbara McCutchan

Amazon deforestation is a consequence of global demand for food.1 Forests get cleared mostly to graze livestock, but some get cleared to grow soybeans, as soy is a more profitable crop. Brazilian …

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How Brazil Has Dramatically Reduced Tropical Deforestation

How Brazil Has Dramatically Reduced Tropical Deforestation0

By Doug Boucher

After Decades of Failure… During the second half of the twentieth century, the deforestation of the tropics became a global concern. Young people everywhere learned at an early age that “saving …

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From Mexico, Global Lessons for Forest Governance

From Mexico, Global Lessons for Forest Governance0

By David Bray

Until 2007, forests were the orphan of climate change concerns. They had been largely left out of the Clean Development Mechanism, a carbon-offsets program that emerged from the 1997 Kyoto …

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Forestry Balances Profit and Conservation in the Pacific Northwest

Forestry Balances Profit and Conservation in the Pacific Northwest0

By Brent Davies

The temperate rainforests that hug the coasts of Oregon and Washington are some of the most productive forests in the world.1 Temperate rainforests sequester more carbon per hectare than any …

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Globalization

Extending the Boundaries of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: Engaging Business and Civil Society

Extending the Boundaries of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: Engaging Business and Civil Society0

By Lars Fogh Mortensen, Karen Lund Petersen

The adoption of the UN 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 was a remarkable achievement. In the outcome document,1 heads of state, government, and high …

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Living in a Well-meaning Lie: Valuing all Voices?

Living in a Well-meaning Lie: Valuing all Voices?0

By Jindra Cekan

Poor villagers like Edith, Aminata, Rituu, and Juan don’t appear much on the nightly news.  You might never know they exist unless you stop and read your mail from some charity asking you to help …

Read more
Global Fishing Watch: A Public Check On Overfishing

Global Fishing Watch: A Public Check On Overfishing0

By Devin Windelspecht

Over the past 40 years, the number of recorded marine species has decreased by around 39 percent, according to the World Wildlife Fund. This extreme extinction rate is, in many ways, due to …

Read more
Transparency for Just Seafood Systems

Transparency for Just Seafood Systems0

By Megan Bailey, Niklas Egels-Zandén

An overfishing and overconsumption crisis has resulted in global declines of marine fish stocks. So while global population is increasing, the ability of our oceans to support that population …

Read more
Transforming the World by Transforming the University: Envisioning the University of 2040

Transforming the World by Transforming the University: Envisioning the University of 20400

By Robert Dyball, Federico Davila, Ariane König

We are educating students to engage with a future that will be very different to the era in which most universities were established. Global change is accelerating in every sphere of society. As …

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The Sustainable Development Goals: A Common Song Sheet for the World’s Orchestra

The Sustainable Development Goals: A Common Song Sheet for the World’s Orchestra0

By Katherine Richardson

Guido Schmidt-Traub works on the Sustainable Development Goals and climate change. He is Executive Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and member of the Future Earth …

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Governance

The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts

The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts0

By Elizabeth Caniglia

Key Concepts: Regenerative Development, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, Global Compact, International Standards Organization, Social and Environmental Responsibility   …

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Building a Circular Economy: How to Solve the Mixed Waste Problem at Company Level

Building a Circular Economy: How to Solve the Mixed Waste Problem at Company Level0

By Louise Sörme, Joacim Rosenlund, Bo Bergbäck

The Resource Challenge: The Transition to a Circular Economy The concept of circular economy (‘CE’) emphasizes the necessity to move away from a linear economy based on a ‘take, make and dispose’ …

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Extending the Boundaries of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: Engaging Business and Civil Society

Extending the Boundaries of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development: Engaging Business and Civil Society0

By Lars Fogh Mortensen, Karen Lund Petersen

The adoption of the UN 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 was a remarkable achievement. In the outcome document,1 heads of state, government, and high …

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Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous Future

Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous Future0

By John J. Berger

Amsterdam has ambitious aspirations to slash its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), phase out fossil fuels, and usher in a clean energy future. The city’s sustainability vision is panoramic in …

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Development Interventions in Pastoralist Areas: A New Decision Matrix to Identify Win-Win Situations and No-Go Zones

Development Interventions in Pastoralist Areas: A New Decision Matrix to Identify Win-Win Situations and No-Go Zones0

By Pablo Manzano

The widespread image of a pastoralist is an uncultivated person living in a remote area, absolutely ignorant of modernity, who can easily turn into someone in need of food aid as soon as the next …

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Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous, Sustainable Future

Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous, Sustainable Future0

By John J. Berger

Finding ways to reduce cities’ greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) is vital to global efforts to mitigate climate change. Cities account for around 70 percent of global GHGs and a large growing …

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Green Sports

A 2-minute Solution to Progressing Duty of Care in Sport

A 2-minute Solution to Progressing Duty of Care in Sport0

By Jane Lowder, Jeff Lowder, David Lavallee

Duty of Care in Sport has not previously been defined outside of legal terminology and implications. However societal expectations on what duty of care means have grown beyond this and sports are …

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The Environmental Awakening in Sport

The Environmental Awakening in Sport0

By Michael Pfahl

Sport is, for the most part, an enjoyable experience drawing billions of people to games, events, televisions, bars, and other venues to watch athletes, from children to highly talented …

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Health

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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A New HIV Test Offers Better Treatment Options to Millions of People

A New HIV Test Offers Better Treatment Options to Millions of People0

Scientists dealt a new blow to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by developing a USB stick that can measure if and how much HIV exists in a person’s blood in under 30 minutes. The …

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Researchers Suggest Cost-effective Solutions to Breast and Cervical Cancers

Researchers Suggest Cost-effective Solutions to Breast and Cervical Cancers0

In November 2016, The Lancet published a three-part series on women and cancer with renewed estimates about the expected number of diagnoses in the next 15 years. According to the researchers, …

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doctHERs Empowers Female Doctors while Helping Underprivileged Women

doctHERs Empowers Female Doctors while Helping Underprivileged Women0

A new startup in Pakistan aims to kill two big birds with one stone. The health platform, called doctHERs, connects female doctors with poor communities. On the one hand, it reintegrates female …

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Zika is Infected with Sexism

Zika is Infected with Sexism0

By Jennie Spector

It may take two to tango, but governments, religious leaders, and health officials seem to feel that containing Zika is a one-person dance. The beginning of 2016 brought with it a flood of global …

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Water: A Missing Link That Can Save Mothers and Newborns

Water: A Missing Link That Can Save Mothers and Newborns0

By Jean Chamberlain, Eve Nakabembe

From the rising to the setting of the sun in a Ugandan village, the rural Ugandan mother’s life is impacted by water. She wakes up thinking about fetching water from the nearest borehole, …

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History

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Nature of Sustainable Communities

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Nature of Sustainable Communities0

By Adam Rome

In the mid 19th century, many Americans began to fear that modern civilization might not be sustainable. They were not worried about climate change or nuclear war or species loss. Instead, they …

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Of Religious Tomes and Tippy Taps

Of Religious Tomes and Tippy Taps0

By Corinne Schuster-Wallace, Susan Watt

Personal hygiene is the practice of keeping your body clean, including your hands. Hygiene has aesthetic and moral (purity) dimensions in addition to health dimensions.1 Dating back to biblical …

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Terracing: A Double-Edged Solution for Farming Difficult Landscapes

Terracing: A Double-Edged Solution for Farming Difficult Landscapes0

By Wilko Duprez

Let’s plan for a short trip back in time, shall we? Jump in your favorite time machine, check the gauges and spin the dial. Destination: the Mediterranean basin in the Stone Age, the …

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History Gets a Rewrite, This Time with Women

History Gets a Rewrite, This Time with Women0

By Zeynep Karatas

Women do not get a lot of airtime in history textbooks, but there is a new effort to change that. The founder of Feminist Frequency, Anita Sarkeesian, announced that her website has launched a …

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How Will Future Historians Tell the Story of How We Are Tackling Climate Change Today?

How Will Future Historians Tell the Story of How We Are Tackling Climate Change Today?0

By Katherine Richardson, Robert Dyball, Will Steffen

Environmental history is the study of how humans have shaped environments in the past, as well as how environments and environmental changes have shaped us, and how people have regulated their …

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See America: A Celebration of the US National Parks Service

See America: A Celebration of the US National Parks Service0

By Colleen Maney

As the United States National Parks Service marks its centennial anniversary, a global group of artists have lent their creative minds to the celebration. In 2014, the Creative Action Network …

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Human Rights

Modern Feminist Graffiti in an Ancient Town

Modern Feminist Graffiti in an Ancient Town0

By Dawn Starin

Between 2013 and 2014, an average of seven women were murdered in Mexico every day.1 According to the Amnesty International Report from 2015/16 on Mexico,2 violence (including killings, …

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Syrian Female Journalists Seek Civil Society

Syrian Female Journalists Seek Civil Society0

By Dominique Bonessi

In major western media headlines, we see the stereotypical refugee woman crying, donning a hijab, and holding an infant—the victims of the Syrian civil war. “Syria woman is one that is …

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Women and WaSH: The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation

Women and WaSH: The Human Rights to Water and Sanitation0

By Catarina de Albuquerque, Virginia Roaf

Women and girls tend to experience and manage access—and the lack of access—to water and sanitation differently from men and boys. The traditional role of women in society, particularly with …

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An African Male Perspective on Women and Water: An Interview with Ivan Tibenkana

An African Male Perspective on Women and Water: An Interview with Ivan Tibenkana0

By Corinne Schuster-Wallace

Ivan Tibenkana is a graduate of the Save the Mothers (STM) Masters in Public Health Leadership program at Uganda Christian University. As the former Chairman of Budondo subcounty, he has …

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Peace Bloc: Advocating for Academics in Turkey

Peace Bloc: Advocating for Academics in Turkey0

By Devin Windelspecht

In January of this year, a collection of 1,128 Turkish citizens, 90 of whom were members of Turkish universities, unitarily stood in protest to the Turkish government through a petition entitled, …

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Transforming the World by Transforming the University: Envisioning the University of 2040

Transforming the World by Transforming the University: Envisioning the University of 20400

By Robert Dyball, Federico Davila, Ariane König

We are educating students to engage with a future that will be very different to the era in which most universities were established. Global change is accelerating in every sphere of society. As …

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Indigenous communities

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

Read more
Modern Feminist Graffiti in an Ancient Town

Modern Feminist Graffiti in an Ancient Town0

By Dawn Starin

Between 2013 and 2014, an average of seven women were murdered in Mexico every day.1 According to the Amnesty International Report from 2015/16 on Mexico,2 violence (including killings, …

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Slowing Australia’s Revolving Prison Door through Biodiversity Conservation Projects

Slowing Australia’s Revolving Prison Door through Biodiversity Conservation Projects0

By Rosemary Elkins

In Australia, two in five people released from prison will end up back behind bars within ten years.1 For Indigenous people—who have an incarceration rate 15 times that of the general …

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Living in a Well-meaning Lie: Valuing all Voices?

Living in a Well-meaning Lie: Valuing all Voices?0

By Jindra Cekan

Poor villagers like Edith, Aminata, Rituu, and Juan don’t appear much on the nightly news.  You might never know they exist unless you stop and read your mail from some charity asking you to help …

Read more
Development Interventions in Pastoralist Areas: A New Decision Matrix to Identify Win-Win Situations and No-Go Zones

Development Interventions in Pastoralist Areas: A New Decision Matrix to Identify Win-Win Situations and No-Go Zones0

By Pablo Manzano

The widespread image of a pastoralist is an uncultivated person living in a remote area, absolutely ignorant of modernity, who can easily turn into someone in need of food aid as soon as the next …

Read more
Power on Their Own Terms: Tribal Utilities and Energy Self-Sufficiency

Power on Their Own Terms: Tribal Utilities and Energy Self-Sufficiency0

By Daniel Kopin

On August 9, 1961, President John F. Kennedy wrote to the Seneca Nation of Indians to reject their calls for halting construction of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania. Kennedy …

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Inequality

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work

Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work0

By Cosmas Gitta

Robertson Work joins a growing number of public intellectuals who warn of existential threats to humanity and the planet, while highlighting the unprecedented opportunities available to improve …

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SGDs in Action: Short Films Review

SGDs in Action: Short Films Review0

By Sabrina Watkins

Short films can be useful to spark conversation at the office or around the dinner table. In business, they can provide an educational moment about sustainability in a meeting, technical or …

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The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability

The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability0

By William D. Powers, Karina Mariaca de Oliveira, Hilvert Timmer

Summary Projections suggest that two out of three humans will live in cities by 2030.1 However, emerging counter-urbanization movements challenge this trend. In the heart of South America, …

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Paying the Piper in Central Java

Paying the Piper in Central Java0

By Steve Kenihan

The government decentralization process in Indonesia has resulted in the creation of almost 350 water authorities under local government control. Very few of them are large enough to be …

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We Need Societal Addiction Therapy

We Need Societal Addiction Therapy0

By Robert Costanza

Societies, like individuals, can get trapped in patterns of behavior called social traps, or “societal addictions,” that provide short-term rewards but are detrimental and …

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Justice

Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work

Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work0

By Cosmas Gitta

Robertson Work joins a growing number of public intellectuals who warn of existential threats to humanity and the planet, while highlighting the unprecedented opportunities available to improve …

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Language

Saving Endangered Languages Before They Disappear

Saving Endangered Languages Before They Disappear0

By Gregory D.S. Anderson

“I will soon go berry-picking and I will take my language with me.” So I was told some years ago by Marta Kongaraeva, one of the last fluent speakers of a language of a unique group …

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Ancient Voices Speak

Ancient Voices Speak0

When Jessie Little Doe Baird began the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, there was only one other example of reviving an extinct language: ancient Hebrew. But where Israel made restoring the …

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Movements

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown0

By Elizabeth Walsh

“What time is it on the clock of the world?” The late warrior-philosopher, community-builder, and movement-shaper, Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) used to ask this question at the start of most …

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Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work

Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work0

By Cosmas Gitta

Robertson Work joins a growing number of public intellectuals who warn of existential threats to humanity and the planet, while highlighting the unprecedented opportunities available to improve …

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Academic Activism: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Academic Activism: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished0

By Amitai Etzioni

Reviewing The Public Professor by M.V. Lee Badgett, NYU Press, 2016 The United States has allowed very few Syrian refugees to enter the country. The Republicans argue that they all pose a …

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Civic Populism: The People’s Politics of Geno Baroni

Civic Populism: The People’s Politics of Geno Baroni0

By Harry C. Boyte

I am honored today, October 24, 2030, to be chosen as storyteller by the Smithsonian Institution’s Council of American Peoples at the opening of the Geno Baroni Center for Democracy, a …

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Breaking Out of the System Trap: Civil Society Organizations

Breaking Out of the System Trap: Civil Society Organizations0

By Michael Narberhaus

Civil society organizations (CSOs) are groups such as developmental and environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community groups, women’s organizations, faith-based organizations, …

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ExtInked

ExtInked0

By Elizabeth Allen

What do the wormwood moonshiner beetle, the black scabbardfish and the elegant earthstar all have in common? Other than their fairy-tale names, these three species, along with another 97, have …

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Oceans

Diving into Sustainable Marine Protected Area Management in the Philippines

Diving into Sustainable Marine Protected Area Management in the Philippines0

By Kate Hooper

Dubbed a ‘global center of marine biodiversity,’1 the waters around the Philippines have some of the highest concentrations of marine species in the world.2–4 However, the …

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Redesigning Conservation: Adidas Announces Recycled 3D-printed Shoe

Redesigning Conservation: Adidas Announces Recycled 3D-printed Shoe0

By Devin Windelspecht

An estimated 4.8 million metric tons of plastic waste enter our oceans each year—that’s 13,000 metric tons per day. As plastics don’t biodegrade, this mass of artificial junk is …

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Slow Down and Save the Whales

Slow Down and Save the Whales0

By Lael Parrott, Clement Chion, Samuel Turgeon, Nadia Ménard, Guy Cantin, Robert Michaud

Many natural resource management and biodiversity conservation problems are so-called wicked problems.1 Such problems involve multiple stakeholders with differing objectives and for whom the …

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A Multi-Faceted Natural Asset Trust for the Great Barrier Reef

A Multi-Faceted Natural Asset Trust for the Great Barrier Reef0

By Tom Dowsley

The Great Barrier Reef is arguably Australia’s most famous natural icon. Yet, the ecological health of the reef has declined over the last 150 years following intense development.1 In …

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From Commutes to Corals: Reincarnating New York’s Subway Cars

From Commutes to Corals: Reincarnating New York’s Subway Cars0

By Colleen Maney

The secret is out: New York City has been quietly dumping its retired and decrepit subway cars into the ocean for years. But before you accuse the city of gross environmental crimes and …

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Scaling Up Seafood Sustainability: An Illustrated Journey

Scaling Up Seafood Sustainability: An Illustrated Journey0

By Katherine Short

Oceans cover almost three-quarters of the planet, hold 97 percent of its water, produce more than half of the oxygen in the atmosphere, and absorb the most carbon. We evolved from the oceans and …

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Permaculture

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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Living the Good Life: Core Values, System Design and Functional Resilience

Living the Good Life: Core Values, System Design and Functional Resilience0

By Vishnu Prahalad

Hannah Moloney, co-founder and co-director of Good Life Permaculture, was in the pursuit of a duck on the run when I arrived at her property on a fine summer evening. The duck had wandered into …

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Politics

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Academic Activism: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Academic Activism: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished0

By Amitai Etzioni

Reviewing The Public Professor by M.V. Lee Badgett, NYU Press, 2016 The United States has allowed very few Syrian refugees to enter the country. The Republicans argue that they all pose a …

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Water Gender Policy in Practice in Uganda

Water Gender Policy in Practice in Uganda0

By Maria Mutagamba

As a country, Uganda has strived over the years to ensure that it has a gender-sensitive approach towards development. In 1997, the Ugandan government developed its first Uganda Gender Policy …

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Peace Bloc: Advocating for Academics in Turkey

Peace Bloc: Advocating for Academics in Turkey0

By Devin Windelspecht

In January of this year, a collection of 1,128 Turkish citizens, 90 of whom were members of Turkish universities, unitarily stood in protest to the Turkish government through a petition entitled, …

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The Search for Real, Integrative Solutions

The Search for Real, Integrative Solutions0

By Robert Costanza

This inaugural issue of Solutions marks the beginning of what we hope will be a long and fruitful dialogue across our global society. To help build a shared vision of where our society wants to …

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Where Airstrikes Fall Short, the West Can Still Act to End Violence Against Women

Where Airstrikes Fall Short, the West Can Still Act to End Violence Against Women0

By Christina Asquith

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) atrocities against women have provoked worldwide outrage, generating increased support for U.S. action in the region and hundreds of airstrikes …

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Population

Small, Dispersed, Sustainable, and Prosperous: An Alternative Paradigm to Population Consolidation in the Maldives

Small, Dispersed, Sustainable, and Prosperous: An Alternative Paradigm to Population Consolidation in the Maldives0

By A. Rifaee Rasheed, Nabeeh Zakariyya

By nature, economic growth is a continual exercise of ‘scaling up.’ It is a premise that drives the pursuit of greater material output at lower costs—a pursuit that leads to the …

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We Need Societal Addiction Therapy

We Need Societal Addiction Therapy0

By Robert Costanza

Societies, like individuals, can get trapped in patterns of behavior called social traps, or “societal addictions,” that provide short-term rewards but are detrimental and …

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In Argentina, an Innovative Traditional and Natural Medicine Initiative Sprouts from Urban Agriculture

In Argentina, an Innovative Traditional and Natural Medicine Initiative Sprouts from Urban Agriculture0

By Robert C. Thornett

Trading jokes with his housemates as the sun sets over downtown Rosario, Argentina, nursing student Miguel Suarez drags a hose across the courtyard of the Medical Student House to water a leafy …

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Making Birth Safe

Making Birth Safe0

By Christina Asquith

Most women who give birth in the United States do so surrounded by a variety of health professionals, including doctors or midwives, nurses and doulas. The combined expertise in the room ensures …

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The Trouble of Discounting Tomorrow

The Trouble of Discounting Tomorrow0

By Simon Levin

No challenge facing humanity is broader in scope and importance than achieving a sustainable future. Every dimension of our lives is affected, and every discipline and sector of society must be …

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Anchoring Wealth to Sustain Cities and Population Growth

Anchoring Wealth to Sustain Cities and Population Growth0

By Gar Alperovitz, Thad Williamson, Steve Dubb

Americans face a unique challenge in solving the climate crisis. Unlike other Western countries and Japan, where population is projected to be relatively constant, the U.S. population is set to …

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Property Rights

Shifting Power Relations and Poor Practices in Land Deals through Participatory Action in Marracune, Mozambique

Shifting Power Relations and Poor Practices in Land Deals through Participatory Action in Marracune, Mozambique0

By Helena Shilomboleni

Although Mozambique has a fairly strong national legislation that protects the land-use rights of rural populations, the law is used poorly—privileging leases to agro-investors at the expense of …

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Surviving the Second Conquest: Emperor Menelik and Industrial Plantations in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley

Surviving the Second Conquest: Emperor Menelik and Industrial Plantations in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley0

By Will Hurd

The many times I arrived at Bole airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, there was always a sign that said “Welcome Home.” Its meaning never registered until an official from the Ministry …

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Levelling the Playing Field: Strengthening Common Property in Honduran Legislation

Levelling the Playing Field: Strengthening Common Property in Honduran Legislation0

By Amparo Cerrato

Honduras is a very small, but highly biodiverse Latin American nation whose natural resources are worth preserving. Almost half of the country’s surface is still covered by forests and a …

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From Mexico, Global Lessons for Forest Governance

From Mexico, Global Lessons for Forest Governance0

By David Bray

Until 2007, forests were the orphan of climate change concerns. They had been largely left out of the Clean Development Mechanism, a carbon-offsets program that emerged from the 1997 Kyoto …

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Using Auctions to Share Scarce Water

Using Auctions to Share Scarce Water0

By David Zetland

In the summer of 2009, we were treated to a bicoastal spectacle of conflicts over water in the western and southeastern United States. Farmers in California were on television, complaining about …

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Institutions for Managing Ecosystem Services

Institutions for Managing Ecosystem Services0

By Jennifer H. Allen, Jenny DuVander, Ida Kubiszewski, Elinor Ostrom

Two decades of research into the management of what economists call common-pool resources suggests that, under the right conditions, local communities can manage shared resources sustainably and …

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Quality of Life

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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Empowering, Sustainable and Decentralized: A New Vision for the Future of Africa’s Development

Empowering, Sustainable and Decentralized: A New Vision for the Future of Africa’s Development0

On the occasion of the Wellbeing Economy Festival, which took place in Pretoria on 27-30 November 2017, we spoke to the former deputy regional director for Africa of the United Nations …

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Living the Good Life: Core Values, System Design and Functional Resilience

Living the Good Life: Core Values, System Design and Functional Resilience0

By Vishnu Prahalad

Hannah Moloney, co-founder and co-director of Good Life Permaculture, was in the pursuit of a duck on the run when I arrived at her property on a fine summer evening. The duck had wandered into …

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Towards Well-being Indicators in Africa: A Case Study from Namibia

Towards Well-being Indicators in Africa: A Case Study from Namibia0

By Justine Braby, Johannes Mulunga, Namene Nekwaya, Jessica Jane Lavelle, Marie-Jeanne Ndimbira, Reinhold Mangundu, Angula Angula

The current world view is that economic growth is synonymous with human well-being and prosperity. This growth is measured using Gross Domestic Product (GDP). And for many years, the world has …

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Swedish Companies Try Out Six-Hour Work Day

Swedish Companies Try Out Six-Hour Work Day0

By Devin Windelspecht

The average person spends between one and three hours a day on “private activities” unrelated to work, according to a 2013 study by Roland Paulsen of Lund University. This might not …

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Refugees

REFUNITE: Connecting Refugees

REFUNITE: Connecting Refugees0

With the number of displaced people exceeding 65.3 million around the world, one mobile tool offers to connect refugees to long-lost family members and friends. Already a success, REFUNITE was …

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What Design Can Do for Refugees

What Design Can Do for Refugees0

An unprecedented 65.3 million people around the world are currently displaced, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. More than half of these people live in urban areas. Others are jammed …

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Syrian Refugees Reclaim Childhoods through Arts Therapy

Syrian Refugees Reclaim Childhoods through Arts Therapy0

By Nihal Kayali

For many children escaping the Syrian war, the trauma of violence and loss lingers long after the journey away from home. In Sultanbeyli, a suburb of Istanbul with a burgeoning refugee …

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From Nazis to Refugees: The Story of an Airport in the Heart of Berlin

From Nazis to Refugees: The Story of an Airport in the Heart of Berlin0

By Colleen Maney

In the center of Berlin, just beyond the trendy Kreuzberg neighborhood, is one of the city’s most beloved public spaces, the Tempelhof Airport. After closing in 2008, the airfield and large …

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Syria Outbound: Protecting Women on the Migrant Trail

Syria Outbound: Protecting Women on the Migrant Trail0

By Molly Bernstein, Xanthe Ackerman

Oumo, from sub-Saharan Africa, was forced to trade sex twice for a fake passport and passage to Turkey on her way to Greece. Noor, a pregnant mother of two, was freezing and in severe pain as she …

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Helping Refugees Find Lost Loved Ones

Helping Refugees Find Lost Loved Ones0

In 2000 an Afghan family paid a trafficker to take them over the border into Pakistan and then on to Denmark or Sweden. But when the trafficker arrived, there was only one spot in the van. The …

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regeneration

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown0

By Elizabeth Walsh

“What time is it on the clock of the world?” The late warrior-philosopher, community-builder, and movement-shaper, Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) used to ask this question at the start of most …

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Religion

The New Oprah – A New Arabic Language Talk Show that Lifts Taboos on Women

The New Oprah – A New Arabic Language Talk Show that Lifts Taboos on Women0

By Christina Asquith

For more than 20 years, Iraqi-born Zainab Salbi founded and ran Women for Women International, a DC-based, global women’s rights organization. In 2008, she published a best-selling memoir, …

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Laudato si’ and the Role of Religion in Shaping Humanity’s Response to Climate Change

Laudato si’ and the Role of Religion in Shaping Humanity’s Response to Climate Change0

By Andrew Hoffman

In 1949, conservationist Aldo Leopold wrote that no important change in our ethical appreciation of nature could ever be accomplished “without an internal change in our intellectual …

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The Place of Muslim Women in Islamic Space

The Place of Muslim Women in Islamic Space0

By Zafirah Zein

The amount of space afforded to women in Islam has long been a topic of debate. Traditionally, men lead prayers at home and outside. Men raise the call to prayer, preach during sermons, and take …

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Science and Islam: Rebuilding a Modern Iraq

Science and Islam: Rebuilding a Modern Iraq0

By Ilina Talwar

Iraq has a long history of contributing to scientific discovery, however as religious leaders increasingly take control of the war-torn nation, that tradition is under threat. Once a hub for …

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Tackling Muslim-American Stereotypes with Satire

Tackling Muslim-American Stereotypes with Satire0

By Zafirah Zein

“We’re not that kind of Muslim!” ends the opening credits to Aasif Mandvi’s Halal in the Family, a new web series battling anti-Muslim prejudice in the United States. The …

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Integrating Ecology and Justice: The New Papal Encyclical

Integrating Ecology and Justice: The New Papal Encyclical0

By Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

On June 18, 2015 Pope Francis released Laudato Si, the first encyclical in the history of the Catholic Church on ecology. An encyclical is the highest-level teaching document in Catholicism. …

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Resilience

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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Fracture Lines: On Urban Metabolism, Ethics, and Feeding the Cities of the Future

Fracture Lines: On Urban Metabolism, Ethics, and Feeding the Cities of the Future0

The city has increasingly been recognised as having significant importance for climate mitigation. Over 54% of the world’s population are now living in cities, and greater that 60% are expected …

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The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts

The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts0

By Elizabeth Caniglia

Key Concepts: Regenerative Development, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, Global Compact, International Standards Organization, Social and Environmental Responsibility   …

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Supporting Small Farmers in Africa through Home-grown Information Technology

Supporting Small Farmers in Africa through Home-grown Information Technology0

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe

The problem Most African farmers often rely on guesswork in their farming practices. Many make decisions based on beliefs that have been passed from one generation to another, over centuries, …

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The ‘Climate-Proofing’ of Rotterdam

The ‘Climate-Proofing’ of Rotterdam0

By John J. Berger

Rotterdam, The Netherlands – How can a major seaport city thriftily bolster its defences against a growing onslaught of costly climate risks while reaping economic benefits and making itself more …

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Security

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan

A Decade Of Action: The Case For A Planetary Emergency Plan0

By The Club of Rome, The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

For 10,000 years, human civilisation has grown and thrived because of Earth’s remarkable climate stability and rich biological diversity. In the last 50 years, human activity has severly …

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The Path to Global Food Security: An Interview with Jim Morris

The Path to Global Food Security: An Interview with Jim Morris0

By Audrey Pence

The United Nations (UN) has said that the World Food Program faces today its worst challenge since WWII, with five top-level humanitarian crises to attempt to address. Jim Morris served as …

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Food Security: The Urban Food Hubs Solution

Food Security: The Urban Food Hubs Solution0

By Sabine O'Hara

Food security is a top priority for the United States and countries around the world. The U.S. Department of Agriculture defines food security as “…access by all people at all times to enough …

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Where Airstrikes Fall Short, the West Can Still Act to End Violence Against Women

Where Airstrikes Fall Short, the West Can Still Act to End Violence Against Women0

By Christina Asquith

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) atrocities against women have provoked worldwide outrage, generating increased support for U.S. action in the region and hundreds of airstrikes …

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A Mile Short

A Mile Short0

By Bruce Cooperstein

Maude Barlow, the author of Blue Planet, is the chair of the board of Food and Water Watch, founder of the Blue Planet Project, a much honored and tireless human rights activist, and a recipient …

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Social Capital

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

Read more
Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown0

By Elizabeth Walsh

“What time is it on the clock of the world?” The late warrior-philosopher, community-builder, and movement-shaper, Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) used to ask this question at the start of most …

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Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home

Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home0

By Robert C. Thornett

Charting a New Path to Ireland: Set Jin Lee This June, eighty kilometers north of Dublin, Set Jin Lee was the only Malaysian student to graduate from Ireland’s Dundalk Institute of Technology …

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Whither Work in the 21st Century

Whither Work in the 21st Century0

By Art Pearl

Barry Schwartz, a professor of psychology who has taught at Swarthmore College for nearly 45 years, is the author of numerous books synthesizing research in the social sciences, including …

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Wellbeing Economy: A Paradigm for the 21st Century

Wellbeing Economy: A Paradigm for the 21st Century0

By Lorenzo Fioramonti

For the past century, most societies have adopted a narrow definition of economic growth as the route to development. Growth has become an end in itself, as a result of which, the true meaning of …

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Filmmaking for the Greater Good

Filmmaking for the Greater Good0

By Sam Whitefield

For non-profit organizations focused on advancing their causes, communicating their work to the public may not be a priority. A media organization led by the granddaughter of French marine …

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Stewardship

A 2-minute Solution to Progressing Duty of Care in Sport

A 2-minute Solution to Progressing Duty of Care in Sport0

By Jane Lowder, Jeff Lowder, David Lavallee

Duty of Care in Sport has not previously been defined outside of legal terminology and implications. However societal expectations on what duty of care means have grown beyond this and sports are …

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Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?

Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?0

By Keith Murray

Following on from my thoughts published in the April 2019 issue of The Solutions Journal, I started to reflect on what was written and wondered if it would be of interest to readers to know how …

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Africa’s Leapfrogging Opportunity to an Inclusive, Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Economy

Africa’s Leapfrogging Opportunity to an Inclusive, Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Economy0

By Desta Mebratu

Context The unprecedented global economic growth witnessed since the middle of the 20th century resulted in major improvement in human wellbeing as witnessed in key human development indicators. …

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Land Matters

Land Matters0

By Robert Costanza

Reviewing Land Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future, edited by Ilan Chabay, Martin Frick, and Jennifer Helgeson, Academic Press, 2016   “Everything we have ever …

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A Case for Conservation on a Human Scale

A Case for Conservation on a Human Scale0

By Neil Burgess, Katarzyna Nowak

As the American biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson said, “the worst part of ongoing planetary despoliation is biodiversity loss.”1 The term biodiversity refers to the variety of …

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Drought in California: Entering a New Water Future

Drought in California: Entering a New Water Future0

By Philip Garone

California’s hydraulic infrastructure has vaulted the state’s development forward, creating a thriving agricultural economy and supporting a population that now exceeds 38 million. …

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Sustainability

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

Read more
Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?

Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?0

By Keith Murray

Following on from my thoughts published in the April 2019 issue of The Solutions Journal, I started to reflect on what was written and wondered if it would be of interest to readers to know how …

Read more
Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown0

By Elizabeth Walsh

“What time is it on the clock of the world?” The late warrior-philosopher, community-builder, and movement-shaper, Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) used to ask this question at the start of most …

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Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work

Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work0

By Cosmas Gitta

Robertson Work joins a growing number of public intellectuals who warn of existential threats to humanity and the planet, while highlighting the unprecedented opportunities available to improve …

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Seeding Change by Visioning Good Anthropocenes

Seeding Change by Visioning Good Anthropocenes0

By Laura M. Pereira, Elena Bennett, Reinette (Oonsie) Biggs, Astrid Mangnus, Albert V. Norström, Garry Peterson, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, My Sellberg, Joost Vervoort

The Earth system is now arguably in a novel, uncertain planetary era – the Anthropocene – in which human activities are a major planetary force1. These changes have largely been brought about …

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Technology

It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On

It’s Not Game Over, It’s Game On0

By Hunter Lovins

Planetary Emergency We are in a planetary emergency.1 Make no mistake about that. As the twinned crises of climate2 and biodiversity loss3 worsen, apocalyptic messages become more common.4 Yet is …

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Designing a Nano-Safe Future

Designing a Nano-Safe Future0

By Steven Umbrello

Nanotechnologies are fast becoming one of the most ubiquitous of the emerging technologies to have a commercial and economic impact. Along with artificial intelligence systems and …

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Solar Rollers

Solar Rollers0

By Solar Rollers

High schoolers are aware of the Earth’s rapidly warming climate, but may not be as familiar with the skills and tools they’ll need to be part of the solution. Solar Rollers, a Colorado …

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Systems Thinking and How It Can Help Build a Sustainable World: A Beginning Conversation

Systems Thinking and How It Can Help Build a Sustainable World: A Beginning Conversation0

By Megan Seibert

“For some, the development of systems thinking is crucial for the survival of humanity.” – John Sterman   “The light begins to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon …

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Supporting Small Farmers in Africa through Home-grown Information Technology

Supporting Small Farmers in Africa through Home-grown Information Technology0

By Ndubuisi Ekekwe

The problem Most African farmers often rely on guesswork in their farming practices. Many make decisions based on beliefs that have been passed from one generation to another, over centuries, …

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Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous Future

Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous Future0

By John J. Berger

Amsterdam has ambitious aspirations to slash its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), phase out fossil fuels, and usher in a clean energy future. The city’s sustainability vision is panoramic in …

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Transportation

ICLEI and USDN: The New Era of Intercity Collaboration

ICLEI and USDN: The New Era of Intercity Collaboration0

By Angie Fyfe

Arriving early one morning at Denver Union Station, the city’s passenger rail terminal and local transportation hub, I was greeted by a disappointingly long chain of open railcars brimming with …

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Biomimicry as a transformative paradigm: Nature Inspired Solutions to meet Basic Human Needs

Biomimicry as a transformative paradigm: Nature Inspired Solutions to meet Basic Human Needs0

By Gamelihle Sibanda

What are basic human needs? How do we currently meet them? How does nature meet similar needs? How are pioneering innovators emulating natures’ strategies to meet human needs in a sustainable …

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Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous, Sustainable Future

Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous, Sustainable Future0

By John J. Berger

Finding ways to reduce cities’ greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) is vital to global efforts to mitigate climate change. Cities account for around 70 percent of global GHGs and a large growing …

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More Bikes Than Cars in Copenhagen Save the Environment and Taxpayers’ Money

More Bikes Than Cars in Copenhagen Save the Environment and Taxpayers’ Money0

As the world’s most bicycle-friendly city, Copenhagen has just broken a new record: as of September 2016, more bikes enter the city each day than cars. This year, there are 35,080 more …

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Germany Goes Electric: All Cars Must be Emissions-free by 2030

Germany Goes Electric: All Cars Must be Emissions-free by 20300

By Devin Windelspecht

Germany’s ambitions aren’t small when it comes to combating the threat of climate change. By 2050, the European country hopes to cut up to 95 percent of its current CO2 emissions, and …

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New Driving App Helps You Save the Planet

New Driving App Helps You Save the Planet0

By Scott Osberg, Rebecca Hinch

Increasingly, Americans are waking up and realizing that climate change is a huge problem and that it is not going away. However, it is so big that many people think that there is not much that …

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Urbanization

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Fracture Lines: On Urban Metabolism, Ethics, and Feeding the Cities of the Future

Fracture Lines: On Urban Metabolism, Ethics, and Feeding the Cities of the Future0

The city has increasingly been recognised as having significant importance for climate mitigation. Over 54% of the world’s population are now living in cities, and greater that 60% are expected …

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The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability

The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability0

By William D. Powers, Karina Mariaca de Oliveira, Hilvert Timmer

Summary Projections suggest that two out of three humans will live in cities by 2030.1 However, emerging counter-urbanization movements challenge this trend. In the heart of South America, …

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The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts

The Path to a Regenerative Future: The Importance of Local Networks and Bioregional Contexts0

By Elizabeth Caniglia

Key Concepts: Regenerative Development, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals, Global Compact, International Standards Organization, Social and Environmental Responsibility   …

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The ‘Climate-Proofing’ of Rotterdam

The ‘Climate-Proofing’ of Rotterdam0

By John J. Berger

Rotterdam, The Netherlands – How can a major seaport city thriftily bolster its defences against a growing onslaught of costly climate risks while reaping economic benefits and making itself more …

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Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous Future

Amsterdam Mobilizes for a Clean, Prosperous Future0

By John J. Berger

Amsterdam has ambitious aspirations to slash its greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), phase out fossil fuels, and usher in a clean energy future. The city’s sustainability vision is panoramic in …

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Violence

Supporting Community Resilience in Armed Conflict and Protracted Violence – Putting Dignity Back into Humanitarian Assistance

Supporting Community Resilience in Armed Conflict and Protracted Violence – Putting Dignity Back into Humanitarian Assistance0

By Marcus C. Oxley

  1. Introduction The number of armed conflicts is on the rise, with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region being particularly affected. According to World Bank President “By 2030, …

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Modern Feminist Graffiti in an Ancient Town

Modern Feminist Graffiti in an Ancient Town0

By Dawn Starin

Between 2013 and 2014, an average of seven women were murdered in Mexico every day.1 According to the Amnesty International Report from 2015/16 on Mexico,2 violence (including killings, …

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Scaling Up Education in a Climate of Crisis

Scaling Up Education in a Climate of Crisis0

By Molly Bernstein

As their rickety boat approaches shore, sending ripples across the surface of the glossy river water, 17-year-old Filipe and a handful of his classmates hop off and head to class. Teachers are …

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Conflict-Free in the Congo

Conflict-Free in the Congo0

By Jennie Spector

While humanity’s use of electronics is tainted with unpleasant aspects—ranging from the need for “suicide nets” under the windows of Chinese iPhone factories to the numerous …

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Poverty, Violence, and Women: An Interview with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women

Poverty, Violence, and Women: An Interview with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women0

By Christina Asquith

A former school teacher from South Africa, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has served as the Head of UN Women since 2013. Prior to that, she was deputy president to Thabo Mbeki and the most senior female …

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#SayHerName: Women and the Black Lives Matter Movement

#SayHerName: Women and the Black Lives Matter Movement0

By Kendall Bousquet

The public spotlight on the killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Eric Garner at the hands of police officers in the United States has shifted the issue of police brutality against black …

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Water

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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SGDs in Action: Short Films Review

SGDs in Action: Short Films Review0

By Sabrina Watkins

Short films can be useful to spark conversation at the office or around the dinner table. In business, they can provide an educational moment about sustainability in a meeting, technical or …

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Building a Sustainable and Resilient Urban Water Strategy

Building a Sustainable and Resilient Urban Water Strategy0

By Will Sarni

Background Currently, approximately 4 billion people live in water-scarce and -stressed regions, with nearly 1 billion people lacking access to safe drinking water and almost 1 million deaths per …

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Partnering Across International Boundaries for Water Security Through Technology and Startup Support

Partnering Across International Boundaries for Water Security Through Technology and Startup Support0

By Gili Elkin

The State of Colorado was one of the last areas in the United States settled by Europeans. Denver, its largest city, had but a handful of permanent residents as recently as the 1850’s. In …

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Power on Their Own Terms: Tribal Utilities and Energy Self-Sufficiency

Power on Their Own Terms: Tribal Utilities and Energy Self-Sufficiency0

By Daniel Kopin

On August 9, 1961, President John F. Kennedy wrote to the Seneca Nation of Indians to reject their calls for halting construction of the Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania. Kennedy …

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The Absurdity of Pooping in Potable Water

The Absurdity of Pooping in Potable Water0

By James B. Houser, Bobbie Jo Swinson, Michael Hambourger

In 2010, while innocently sitting in my office in the Department of Sustainable Technology and the Built Environment at Appalachian State University in the small mountain town of Boone, North …

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Wellbeing

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?

Is Colorado a Regenerative Economy?0

By Hunter Lovins, Jock Gilchrist

Legacy industries often claim they’re essential for the prosperity of the economy in which they are located. Therefore, they say, they must be sustained, regardless the cost to people or the …

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Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”

Sustainable Development and Bamboo Value Chains: Ethiopia’s Green Growth Opportunities Within the “Sino-Dutch-East Africa Bamboo Development Programme 2016-19”0

By Edoardo Monaco

Bamboo is a versatile non-timber forest resource that is widely available across the world’s South. If harnessed properly, many of its over 1600 known species (Vorontsova et al., 2016) growing …

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Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?

Sustainability Reporting, Beyond TBL-TSM?0

By Keith Murray

Following on from my thoughts published in the April 2019 issue of The Solutions Journal, I started to reflect on what was written and wondered if it would be of interest to readers to know how …

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Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Review of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown0

By Elizabeth Walsh

“What time is it on the clock of the world?” The late warrior-philosopher, community-builder, and movement-shaper, Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) used to ask this question at the start of most …

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Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work

Review of Compassionate Civilization by Robertson Work0

By Cosmas Gitta

Robertson Work joins a growing number of public intellectuals who warn of existential threats to humanity and the planet, while highlighting the unprecedented opportunities available to improve …

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The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability

The High Happiness-Low Carbon Link A new study from Bolivia on well-being and sustainability0

By William D. Powers, Karina Mariaca de Oliveira, Hilvert Timmer

Summary Projections suggest that two out of three humans will live in cities by 2030.1 However, emerging counter-urbanization movements challenge this trend. In the heart of South America, …

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Women

SGDs in Action: Short Films Review

SGDs in Action: Short Films Review0

By Sabrina Watkins

Short films can be useful to spark conversation at the office or around the dinner table. In business, they can provide an educational moment about sustainability in a meeting, technical or …

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Football Fun for Les Femmes

Football Fun for Les Femmes0

By Dawn Starin

Sitting in the dirt on the outskirts of the capital city of Bissau—with someone’s screaming pet baboon tied to a branch above my head, two teenage girls plaiting a third friend’s hair behind me, …

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Girls’ Education is the Solution to…Everything!

Girls’ Education is the Solution to…Everything!0

Investing in girls’ education is the obvious solution to improving women’s equality around the world. Now, a new study demonstrates that it could also be the solution to reducing …

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doctHERs Empowers Female Doctors while Helping Underprivileged Women

doctHERs Empowers Female Doctors while Helping Underprivileged Women0

A new startup in Pakistan aims to kill two big birds with one stone. The health platform, called doctHERs, connects female doctors with poor communities. On the one hand, it reintegrates female …

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Zika is Infected with Sexism

Zika is Infected with Sexism0

By Jennie Spector

It may take two to tango, but governments, religious leaders, and health officials seem to feel that containing Zika is a one-person dance. The beginning of 2016 brought with it a flood of global …

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Poverty, Violence, and Women: An Interview with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women

Poverty, Violence, and Women: An Interview with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women0

By Christina Asquith

A former school teacher from South Africa, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has served as the Head of UN Women since 2013. Prior to that, she was deputy president to Thabo Mbeki and the most senior female …

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Youth

Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home

Chinese Malaysian university students discover a world of opportunities venturing abroad, transcending affirmative action quotas at home0

By Robert C. Thornett

Charting a New Path to Ireland: Set Jin Lee This June, eighty kilometers north of Dublin, Set Jin Lee was the only Malaysian student to graduate from Ireland’s Dundalk Institute of Technology …

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Scaling Up Education in a Climate of Crisis

Scaling Up Education in a Climate of Crisis0

By Molly Bernstein

As their rickety boat approaches shore, sending ripples across the surface of the glossy river water, 17-year-old Filipe and a handful of his classmates hop off and head to class. Teachers are …

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Girls and WaSH: How WaSH in Schools Can Help to Address Gender Inequities

Girls and WaSH: How WaSH in Schools Can Help to Address Gender Inequities0

By Leslie Moreland

In 2015, 663 million people lacked improved drinking water sources and 2.4 billion lacked access to appropriate sanitation facilities.1 A recent UNICEF study showed that global access to water in …

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Syrian Refugees Reclaim Childhoods through Arts Therapy

Syrian Refugees Reclaim Childhoods through Arts Therapy0

By Nihal Kayali

For many children escaping the Syrian war, the trauma of violence and loss lingers long after the journey away from home. In Sultanbeyli, a suburb of Istanbul with a burgeoning refugee …

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Africa’s “Rainbow Revolution:” Feeding a Continent and the World in a Changing Climate

Africa’s “Rainbow Revolution:” Feeding a Continent and the World in a Changing Climate0

By Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba

Agriculture is the backbone of the African economy. According to the World Bank,1 two out of every three Africans are employed in the agriculture sector, producing about a third of the …

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Transforming the World by Transforming the University: Envisioning the University of 2040

Transforming the World by Transforming the University: Envisioning the University of 20400

By Robert Dyball, Federico Davila, Ariane König

We are educating students to engage with a future that will be very different to the era in which most universities were established. Global change is accelerating in every sphere of society. As …

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