All posts tagged sustainable development

Wednesday Night #2165
September 13, 2023, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #2165

Natural disasters The world is still absorbing the news of the devastating earthquake in Morocco -and wondering why aid ...

Calestous Juma, RIP
August 17, 2020, Comments Off on Calestous Juma, RIP

16 December 2017 The literary genius of Africa’s leading innovation scholar, Calestous Juma Calestous Juma, the toweri ...

Oceans and seas
December 29, 2019, 3 Comments

(National Geographic): Ocean Levels Are Getting Higher—Can We Do Anything About It? Council on Foreign Relations Globa ...

Population growth & sustainable development
April 1, 2015, Comments Off on Population growth & sustainable development

Overpopulation, overconsumption – in pictures Sprawling Mexico City rolls across the landscape, displacing every scrap ...

Cities and sustainability
March 26, 2014, 1 Comment

UN Habitat 6 Freeway Removals That Changed Their Cities Forever (Gizmodo) It seems counterintuitive, right? Rip out eigh ...

China’s Cities
November 10, 2013, Comments Off on China’s Cities

The Law of Unintended Consequences Sim Chi Yin for The New York Times Dissatisfaction and Dysfunction in a Model for Chi ...

Three Gorges Dam – Updates
August 23, 2012, 1 Comment

Important background Three Gorges Probe Three Gorges Probe covers the social, environmental, scientific and economic imp ...

Wednesday Night #1539
August 31, 2011, 2 Comments

THE PROLOGUE I am not worried about inflation … The risk to the global economy is not inflation, the risk is that ...

Land, Water And Conflict
September 15, 2010, 1 Comment

The TWO Analysis – Introducing a Methodology for the Transboundary Waters Opportunity Analysis . The report details an ...

The Green Long March
December 3, 2007, Comments Off on The Green Long March

A wonderful example for Canadian students to follow as a lead-up to the 2010 Olympics. How about Green Voyageurs? The Gr ...

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