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  Career Advice

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  Sustainable Development: I was talking to a friend the other day and she pointed out that in her immediate circle of friends at least half of the people educated young people

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • February 05 • 4

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  Checklist(s) for Sustainability? Not easy

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  Sustainable Development: I couldn't do any degree of productive work without my checklists. So I am both pleased and disturbed by the immense popularity of Atul Gawande's new

  

  Sara Wolcott • February 05 • 2

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  The Mining Ban in Antarctica

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  Sustainable Development: Before we get into Antarctic current events and Chinas mining intentions, its helpful to understand a few things about the recent history of internat

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  Good, Better and .. Calculating Sustainable Development's Best

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  Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development is predicated on the idea that a country can do better this year than it did the year before. The question then, of course,

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • February 03 • 0

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  Visioning new visions

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  Sustainable Development: Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel Prize winning economist) recently wrote a book/report about the effects of the financial crisis and what to do about it. Based

  

  Sara Wolcott • February 02 • 0

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  Ecosystems, Economies and Extinction

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  Sustainable Development: One of the most persistent memes when pushing for developing countries to protect their ecosystems is that first these nations will develop their eco

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • February 02 • 3

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  Case Study #1: Antarctica [backgroud info]

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  Sustainable Development: I thought Id begin my sustainable development case studies project with the most obvious of places Antarctica. [Yes, that was sarcasm.] The choice is

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  The final introduction.

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  Sustainable Development: I promise. In this post, wrapping up my first week writing about Sustainable Development for Justmeans, I want to give you a sense of what Id like t

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  Beyond the Tap: Drinking Water and Sustainable Development

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  Sustainable Development: Growing up in the American Northeast with the Captain Planet edict to save water, I dutifully brushed my teeth without the water running and shaved t

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • January 29 • 0

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  Wait, who said I'm happy?

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  Sustainable Development: I think there is general agreement amongst Justmeans readers that sustainable development is not a question of economic development. In the past, I'v

  

  Sara Wolcott • January 28 • 0

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  Introduction, part deux: Architecture in Extreme Environments

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  Sustainable Development: As a sort of second introduction this time to my work instead of to me I thought Id briefly mention what is, in my mind, the appeal of working on arc

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  Sustainable Development: Integrating Mass Transit

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  Sustainable Development: I love public transport. Born and raised in New York City I only received my drivers license roughly two years ago when I moved to rural Vermont and

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • January 28 • 0

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  Know It All

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  Sustainable Development: "We were given two ears and one mouth because were to listen twice as much as we talk" I spent last week at the NCSE Conference on the Environment.

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • January 27 • 0

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  Electric Cars hit the road - and what about public transport?

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  Sustainable Development: There's a new beast on the road - and it doesn't smell like gasoline. At long last, electric cars are standing on their own two feet. Er, running on

  

  Sara Wolcott • January 25 • 1

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  Coping with the loss of a former way of life

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  Sustainable Development: "Sustainability is the capacity to endure." I wish I could take credit for that one, but I got it from Wikipedia. I know that reading the news these

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  Hunger upon hunger - its too much

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  Sustainable Development: Sometimes, I must admit to feeling a degree of hopelessness when I think about climate change and its growing effects on poor and vulnerable people i

  

  Sara Wolcott • January 23 • 1

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  UN. Business. Better?

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  Sustainable Development: I recently noticed Jonathan's update about the UN's recent launch of their new website to bring business and the UN closer together. A long time fan

  

  Sara Wolcott • January 21 • 1

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  Carbon Offsetting and Sustainable Development

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  Sustainable Development: Carbon Offsetting, which has its admittedly justified detractors is traditionally viewed as a way for carbon polluting nations, organizations and ind

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • January 20 • 0

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  India's Green Revolution Success or Folly?

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  Sustainable Development: It is ironic that Indias agricultural revolution was labeled green since it involved techniques that we now recognize were distinctly not environment

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • January 18 • 0

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  The Myth of Free Trade and Development

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  Sustainable Development: Have you ever wondered how Switzerland and Belgium (sorry France) somehow manage to churn out some of the best chocolate around despite the fact that

  

  Kendra Pierre-Louis • January 15 • 0

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