13 February 2012
Solar visionary Jigar Shah sees small solutions to big problems for accessing energy and expanding mobile communications in developing countries
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged access to energy, Barclays Bank, Beltsville, business solution, Carbon War Room, climate change, destruction, earth, electricity, energy efficiency, entrepreneurship, explosive growth trajectory of mobile communications, financial returns, global crisis, global warming, Green Power for Mobile: Charging Choices, GSMA Development Fund, Industrial Development Organization, Industry for development, issue 9, Jigar Shah, Lockheed Martin, Making It magazine, Maryland, mobile phone industry, multi-billion dollar opportunity, our low-carbon future, poverty reduction, power, Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE), renewable energy improvements, small solutions to big problems, statistics, SunEdison, sustainable economic growth, third industrial revolution, UNIDO, United Nations, USA, wealth creation, world
11 November 2011
European Commissioner for Environment, Janez Potočnik, on why environmentalists and industry in Europe must work together to decouple growth from resource depletion
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged Antonio Tajani, Asia-Pacific, business, cobalt, competition, development, earth, environmental authorities, EU, Europe, European Commission, European Commissioner for Environment, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, European Union, gender, global market economy, globalization, green industry, how to be resourceful with limited resources, import-dependent, Industrial Development Organization, infrastructure, innovation, interconnectedness, issue 8, Janez Potocnik, labour costs, labour productivity, latin america, Making It, Middle East, minerals, North Africa, planet, platinum, population, poverty alleviation, prices and costs, resource depletion, resources, roadmap for a resource-efficient Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, titanium, trade, UNIDO, United Nations, vanadium, what to do to save the environment
11 June 2011
An interview with founder of the Indian environmental organization, Navdanya, which promotes biodiversity, organic farming, and seed saving
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged agribusiness, agriculture, Asia, Bhavani Prakash, biodiverse systems, biodiversity, bt cotton, business, conservation, corporations, cotton, Davdanya, developing countries, development, earth, eco-feminist, ecological footprint, ecological memory, economy, ecowalkthetalk.com, environmental work, food systems, generosity, genetic engineering, globalization, herbicide-resilient crops, industrialization, industry, intellectual property, monocultures, multiplicity, nature, NGO, north India, organic farming, renewal, rights of farmers, seed saving, suicide, super-weeds, technology, toxic, UNEP, Uttaranchal, Vandana Shiva
15 February 2011
Taking a closer look at the rising issues surrounding biodiversity and sustainable industrial development
Posted in All Posts, Policy Brief | Tagged Applied Population Biology, biodiversity, biology, carbon, cities, clean water, climate change, danger, earth, energy, food, fresh air, future, green space, habitat loss, Imperial College, issue 4, life, London, medicine, natural processes, overexploitation, policy, pollination, pollution, population, poverty, preserving ecosystem, purifying, Sir John Beddington, species, sustainability, UK, water
22 September 2010
Industrialization will continue to be the most important avenue of future development, but Alfredo Sfeir-Younis says it needs to be about people.
Posted in All Posts, Features | Tagged abundance, agrarian economy, Alfredi Sfeir-Younis, antibiotics, business, challenges, chile, Cho Tab Khen Zambuling, competition, consumers, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, developing countries, development, earth, empowerment, entrepreneurship, Europe, exclusion, external environment, finance, ford, freedom, GNP, happiness, history, human, human rights, impacts, independence, industrial, industrialization, interaction, intercommunication, interconnected, Issue 3, justice, labour, life, love, machines, management, managers, opportunities, owners, peace, people, Princeton University, processes, production, productivity, profits, quality of life, security, self-realization, social, solidarity, stockholders, sustainability, technology, trade, traders, UNIDO, United Nations, urban, values, wealth, workers, world, World Bank, Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation
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