2012
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By Making It on 6 December, 2012
Akihiko Tanaka and Shuzo Nishioka introduce a new partnership to encourage the widespread use of energy-efficient technologies and renewable energy sources in Asia’s growing cities.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged akihiko tanaka, ASEAN, Asia, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, cities, East Asia Low-Carbon Knowledge Platform, energy efficient technologies, energy-efficient residences, greenhouse gas emissions, Higashiyama, infrastructure investment, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Institute for Global Environmental Studies, International Research Network for Low Carbon Societies, Japan, Japan International Cooperation Agency, low-carbon growth, National Institute for Environmental Studies, renewable energy, Republic of Korea, Shuzo Nishioka, Thailand, Toyota City Low-Carbon Society Verification Promotion Council, transport
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 28 November, 2012
A Kenyan firm that uses recycled plastic to manufacture durable and environmentally friendly fencing posts.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Cartier Women’s Initiative Award, Cécile Ney, Charles Kalama, ecopost, fencing, Good Business, green industry, Industrial Development, injection moulding, Kenya, lorna rutto, Making It magazine, nairobi, plastic, plastic extrusion technology, recycled, red cedar trees, timber posts, UNIDO, United Nations Environment Programme, waste
By Making It on 17 November, 2012
Three perspectives on a major challenge confronting the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Arab Spring, Dead Sea, éducation, Egypt, employment, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, Facebook revolution, higher education colleges, imed drine, innovation, International Finance Corporation, Islamic Development Bank, Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women, Jordan’s University of Science and Technology, labour force, labour-intensive, Maharat Employment and Training Programme, Making It, Marrakech, MENA, Middle East, Mohamed Abaran, Morocco, North afria, private sector, Queen Rania’s Centre for Entrepreneurship, Sarah Khalid, Saudi Arabia, social exclusion, Syria, Tawjihi, technology, training, Tunisia, unemployment, university, wider, Yemen, youth
By Making It on 16 November, 2012
In Côte d’Ivoire, UNIDO has created a support mechanism to help integrate young people into the job market.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to funding, Africa, Alassane Ouattara, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Côte d’Ivoire, Côte d’Ivoire, credit, Doris Hribernigg, East Africa, éducation, employment, employment-generating potential, income-generating, La Chaîne de l’Emploi, Le Fonds d’Appui à l’Entreprenariat des Jeunes, technical training, UNIDO, voactional, youth, youth entrepreneurship
By Making It on 16 November, 2012
D-Rev: the California-based non-profit organization with a mission is to improve the health and incomes of people living on less than US$4 a day.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti, BMVSS, Brilliance, California, CEO, D-Rev, design, disrupt markets, health, healthcare, incomes, India, jaundice, Krista Donaldson, non-profit organization, Phoenix Medical Systems, phototherapy, premature babies, ReMotion JaipurKnee, Stanford School of Medicine, US$4 a day
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 14 November, 2012
Junk food is junk by its very definition. But how bad is it, and what are the companies that make it not telling people about this food?
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Centre for Science and Environment, India, India’s National Institute of Nutrition, junk food, Saif Ali Khan, Sunita Narain, supersize, trans fats, World Health Organization
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