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Drilling for nonconventional geothermal energy could deliver clean base-load power to the grid.
Jimmy Wales,
Richard Baraniuk
Project Syndicate
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06/10/08
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Open Education promises to turn the current textbook production pipeline into a vast dynamic knowledge ecosystem that is in a constant state of creation, use, and improvement.
YaleGlobal Online
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06/06/08
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With the price of oil skyrocketing, the only way out is for Western nations, the gluttonous users of petroleum, to cut their consumption and emulate Japan in its consistent drive for energy efficiency and alternate sources.
The financing for development conference to be held later this year in Doha could set the stage for building economic and financial multilateralism in a new mold.
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David Shinn,
Joshua Eisenman
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04/24/08
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China's presence in Africa is often viewed as part of the scramble for resources, but it also opens the door to U.S.-China cooperation on energy, security, corruption, and health.
Southern New Hampshire University is experimenting with parking lot solar to charge electric cars and feed renewable energy back into the grid.
Instead of being price takers in an unstable power market, customers can use renewable energy hedges to transform their purchases into a tool for sustainability.
Fan Li
Global Links Initiative
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03/11/08
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The Global Links Initiative amplifies the new trend of social entrepreneurship in China through its multi-country network.
Karl P. Sauvant
Project Syndicate
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03/10/08
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An Investment Contract Aid Facility could help negotiate fair and durable agreements between poor countries and natural resource companies.
John McCain introduced the idea of global democracy during his 2008 U.S. presidential election campaign. The idea is worth exploring, and perhaps further than McCain intended.
Alexandra Wrage
TRACE International, Inc.
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02/29/08
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As a neutral third party, TRACE works with commercial competitors to address the challenges they all face, delivering an antibribery message to corrupt officials.
The climate crisis requires better tools to compare the true environmental value of greenhouse gas reduction versus sequestration, so that we know whether to invest our limited resources in efficiency or forests, renewable energy or carbon storage.
Laura Raynolds,
Douglas Murray
Center for Fair and Alternative Trade Studies
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01/31/08
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The Fair Trade movement is a promising vehicle for alternative globalization, yet its dramatic growth has fueled a number of new challenges. Has Fair Trade's original agenda been eroded by the market forces it set out to change?
Dean Baker
Center for Economic and Policy Research
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01/17/08
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Recession could open the door for stimulus that is both progressive and climate-friendly, especially if targeted at housing and transportation.
Money stuffed in envelopes. Gifts of cars, computers, and overseas junkets. It sounds like the criticism typically leveled at corrupt MNCs, but it also occurs in the international development community. A Donor Monitor NGO could bring accountability and standards to the field.
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