economy

Webinar: Resilient by Design

Resilience-the capacity to survive, adapt, and grow in the face of change-is a characteristic of all living systems. Human communities are remarkably resilient as is proven when a city can completely rebuild after catastrophic events. In contrast, engineered systems such as machines and structures are generally more "brittle" and prone to failure.

Trump is Wrong about Climate Change, and Jobs Too

By Laurie Mazur / On May 25th, 2017
Donald Trump rode to the White House promising to bring back jobs for working-class Americans. But dismantling federal efforts to address climate change will make it harder to deliver on that promise.

Aid, Poverty, and Global Biodiversity

By Bruce Rich / On May 16th, 2016
International efforts to conserve biodiversity in developing coun­tries are recognizing the need to provide alternative livelihoods.

Turkey's Ill-Considered Rush to Coal Undercuts Emissions Progress

By Bruce Rich / On May 9th, 2016
Nearly all future growth in greenhouse gases will come from the world’s emerging economies, and preventing dangerous global warming depends on their reducing emissions growth. Thus it is troubling that Turkey, the world’s 17th largest economy, plans to as much as quadruple coal-fired electric capacity, building as many as 80 new plants by 2030. It could become the world’s third-largest operator of coal plants, after China and India.

#FOREWORDFRIDAY: Resilient Business Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On October 22nd, 2015
As we are learning the hard way, the new normal of climate change and a volatile, hyper-connected global economy mean that sudden natural disasters and unforeseen supply chain disruptions are here to stay—and pursuing business as usual is no longer a viable option. But how can businesses adjust? Joseph Fiksel argues that the key is resilience—an organization’s capacity to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of change.

The Worst Parking Ever...

By Richard Willson / On June 15th, 2015
  Last month, I gave a parking management presentation to a community group in Silver Lake, a neighborhood in the city of Los Angeles. They told me they had the worst parking problems in the city. If I had a penny for every time a community group told me that their parking problems are the worst ever, I would be wealthy.

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