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By Making It on 1 December, 2012
Maria Eitel, CEO of the Nike Foundation, talks about The Girl Effect campaign.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged adolescent girls, Adolescent Girls Initiative, Berhane Hewan, Binti Pamoja, developing world, early marriage, éducation, Ethiopia, Kibera, Liberia, maria eitel, Nike Foundation, poverty alleviation, Rahim Kanani, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Girl Effect, World Bank
By Making It on 1 December, 2012
Hester Eisenstein on how global elites use women’s labour to exploit the world.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Angela Merkel, assembly operations, Bangladesh, capitalist exploitation, Caracol Industrial Park, cheap labour, China, economic empowerment of women, EPZs, Ester Boserup, export processing, Feminism Seduced, feminist, Ha-Joon Chang, Haiti, hester eisenstein, Hillary Clinton, hot topic, industrial policy, international financial institutions, Japan, Keynesian, La Pietra Coalition, maquiladoras, Naila Kabeer, Nicholas Kristof, Nike Foundation, patriarchal controls, Paul Krugman, Republic of Korea, Sae-A Trading, sweatshops, UNIDO, women, young women
By Making It on 30 November, 2012
Reaching beyond written visions, Sustainia is a virtual construction site and community for those building the sustainable future.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged Antoine de Saint Exupéry, arnold schwarzenegger, Azuri Technologies, Connie Hedegaard, Gro Harlem Brundtland, innovation, Monday Morning, R20 – Regions for Climate Action, Rajendra Pachauri, rio+20, solutions, sustainability, sustainable, sustainable development, sustainable future, sustainia, Sustainia100, technologies
By Making It on 15 November, 2012
Nnimmo Bassey claims that in Nigeria the authorities’ efforts to curb gas flaring are being thwarted by the big oil companies.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged AGIP, Bayelsa State, Chevron, clean development mechanism, Delta State, environmental protection agency, Environmental Rights Action, Etelebou, ExxonMobil, Friends of the Earth International, gas flaring, Gbaran-Ubie, greenhouse gases, health impacts, human rights, Imiringi (Kolo Creek), JK4, Kwale, Making It magazine, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Nigerian Joint Military Taskforce, Nigeria’s Directorate of Petroleum Resources, Nnimmo Bassey, Oben, oil companies. oil fields, Ondewari, Opolo-Epie, Ossiama Creek, Ovade-Ogharefe, Pan Ocean, Petroleum Industry Bill, Shell, UNIDO, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, West African Gas Pipeline project, World Bank
By Making It on 1 November, 2012
Chandran Nair believes Asia’s burgeoning population means Western-style consumption is not an option.
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged Asia, Asian century, Avantage Ventures, Chandran Nair, consumption-led economics, Consumptionomics, Global Institute for Tomorrow, globalization, growth, Making It, population, resources, United States
By Making It on 24 February, 2012
Corinne Schoch asks if militarizing climate change might harm those communities most affected by the problem
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum, Hot Topic | Tagged Africa, agricultural yields, Al Gore, Ban Ki-moon, Barack Obama, climate change, Climate Change Group, Cold War, Corinne Schoch, Darfur crisis, development, economic downturn, economy, environment, global security community, green industry, HIV/AIDS, human security, humanitarian responsibility, IIED, Industrial Development Organization, institutions, International Institute for Environment and Development, international security, IPCC, issue 9, Making It, migration, militarizing climate change, NATO, Nicolas Sarkozy, our low-carbon future, policy, political instability, poor governance, population, productivity, resource efficiency, resources, social cohesion, sustainable industry, UN Security Council, UNDP, UNIDO, United Nations, water resources
By Making It on 5 December, 2011
Richard Heinberg and Matthew Lockwood debate the “end of growth”, and what lies at the foundation of a post-carbon, green economy
Posted in All Posts, Hot Topic | Tagged Adapting to Our New Economic Reality, c02, carbon emissions, climate change, constant growth, de-carbonized economy, debt, developed countries, developing countries, division of labour, economic crisis, economic expansion, economic growth is effectively over, economists, emissions reductions, environmental damage, executives, gender equality, gender issue, global economy, government cover-up, grandchildren's future, green growth, Industrial Development, industrial revolution, infrastructure, innovation, investment, irreversible climate change effects, issue 8, limited national resources, low-carbon technologies, Making It magazine, Matthew Lockwood, no recovery, politics, Post Carbon Institute, Richard Heinberg, sustainability, the economy is recovering, the end of growth, transition away from fossil fuels, UK's Institute of Development Studies, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, women, world warming
By Making It on 2 December, 2011
Paul Polak believes corporations can will only remain competitive in the global marketplace by creating vibrant new markets that serve customers living on less than two US dollars a day
Posted in All Posts, Global Forum | Tagged Bangladesh, Cambodia, cheaper, Coca-Cola, competition, corporate interest, éducation, effective, efficient, Ethiopia, Europe, FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization, Gates Foundation, gender equality, health, human-powered irrigation, IDE, income-generating products, India, Industrial Development, innovation, International Development Enterprises, investion, issue 8, less than US$2, limitless electricity, Making It magazine, microsoft, Myanmar, Nepal, Paul Polak, power, profit, profitable business, safe drinking water, Spring Health, the future of corporations, treadle pump, UN, UNIDO, United Nations, United States, Viet Nam, Wal-Mart, women's issue, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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