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Sustainable Development: Every year Alaskan residents get between $600 and $1,500 dollars as dividend payment from the Alaska Permanent Fund, a constitutionally established f

Sustainable Development: The pair of shoes pictured on the left are a pair of TOMS shoes that I've been eyeing for awhile. Stylish and comfy these shoes represent more than a

Sustainable Development: In my last post, I began to look at some of the differences between rural vs. urban definitions of sustainability in an American context. I drew a co

Sustainable Development: The phrase food innovation generally conjures up images of frankenfood creations: genetically modified seeds, lab-grown meat, and chemical fertilizer

Sustainable Development: I'm job hunting in the field of sustainable international development. Which means I've been noticing what people are hiring for - and keep coming ac

Sustainable Development: Let me introduce you to my friend Lars. Lars is an ex-Wall-Street-trader-turned-organic-pig-farmer. He used to live in New York, but now the place

Sustainable Development: After looking into sustainable development initiatives at the Mayors office and the local business community of Somerville, MA, I figured it was time

Sustainable Development: My first exposure to a deliberately planned ecological community was the Ecovillage at Ithaca in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. It was

Sustainable Development: In my last post, I wrote about the "Environmental Strategic Plan" assembled by local government officials in my hometown of Somerville, Massachusetts

Sustainable Development: In a time when the de facto speed limit for sustainable development is a sign labeled "faster", one tiny, remote country nestled high in the Himalaya

Sustainable Development: After looking at how some big picture Sustainable Development issues are playing out in Antarctica, I thought, for my next case study, Id look a litt

Sustainable Development: At the suggestion of a comment by Mark on the JM site, I checked out National Geographic's recent story of the Lohar people - what the Geographic cal

Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development is not just about development. It's about preventing the very real dangers of regression. Not macro-economic regressions - I

Sustainable Development: "This is a story about a world obsessed with stuff. Were trashing the planet, were trashing each other, and were not even having fun," begins Anne Le

Sustainable Development: I've been noticing recently that academics often get a bad wrap, especially amongst those concerned with sustainable development. There are some exce

Sustainable Development: There is more to Antarctica then mining debates. In fact, last year over 35,000 tourists traveled to Antarctica. Over the past ten years, the number

Sustainable Development: The election cycle in the UK is revving up - and it is just as interesting to note what is missing from the agenda. By and large, we don't hear much

Sustainable Development: An uplifting story to counteract my last post. A couple of posts ago I wrote about the 1991 Protocol on Environmental Protection, a groundbreaking p

Sustainable Development: [Warning: this post is bleak and probably overly cynical.] This is the 4th post in a 4-part series discussing Antarctic mining as a microcosm of glo

Sustainable Development: Four months into my first stint living abroad, I was desperate. I wanted a taco, or a nice bowl of pho, maybe some shrimp shumai, a deep fried Oreo,