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I'm passionate about a green, just socio-economy for everyone as our current system falls apart. I'm currently living in East Bay, California. When I'm not thinking about issues in international development -from melding top-down and bottom-up solutions for peace to joined-up solutions for the financial crisis and the green economy, you might find me hiking in the hills, live-blogging at a justmeans conference, or performing spoken word.

Sustainable Development: The launch of new academic journals rarely gets much popular press - and for good reason. Too often, academic journ...

Sustainable Development: At the start of the financial crisis, it was feared that development aid would substantially fall after having rea...

Sustainable Development: When the US Supreme Court said that States could not prohibit their citizens from carrying firearms in public this Mond...

Sustainable Development: The Secretariat General has also launched the UN Global Impact Vulnerability Alert System (UN GIVAS) which has rece...

Sustainable Development: Throughout the multiple crises that must be surmounted in order to achieve anything that resembles sustainable develop...

Sustainable Development: I've a personal, relatively new challenge that many of you might have also experienced. After over a year of blogging f...

Sustainable Development: Categories are useful - but they can blind us to what is really happening. And there are few stronger categories that r...

Sustainable Development: They say that if you want to really understand a system, you go to where the conditions are worse. If it works - or doe...

Sustainable Development: In business, the quarterly report is bemoaned by those seeking long term sustainable change as it puts focus on short t...

Sustainable Development: At the end of Nestle's conference on 'Creating Shared Value', Graham Baxter (acting CEO of the International Business...

Sustainable Development: In case you haven't heard, water's a big issue in international development. And at Nestle's conference on 'Creating S...

Sustainable Development: Nutrition: once a primary concern of international development, it has recently enjoyed a renaissance of interest. Even...

Sustainable Development: On May 28, Nestle held their annual 'Creating Shared Value' conference and their first 'Creating Shared Value' prize. I...

Sustainable Development: Non-Western voices have been, as usual, quite absent from the important conversations on the oil spill in the Gulf....

Sustainable Development: Sustainable development- especially reducing poverty - takes funds. Lots of them. Funds for infrastructure, medication,...

Sustainable Development: 'Externalities' is too nice of a word. Human and environmental 'externalities' need to be seen as more than externaliti...

Sustainable Development: Today, when JM's health blogger brought up the example of the eradication of small pox as an example of how 'we can do...

Sustainable Development: As the British weather begins to feel distinctly more like summer despite winter's seemingly relentless hold, I'm anxio...

Sustainable Development: There are those in international development who, when they look at the overall global system, argue that the right ma...

Sustainable Development: African sustainable development is entirely possible, despite the prevalance of doubters. But it will need to invest in...