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Rakim Brooks on Urban Poverty and Environmentalism
Topic: Social Justice, Environmentalism, and Animal Rights Institution: Demos, Oxford University Bio: Rakim Brooks is the Ed Baker Fellow for Democratic Values at Demos (pronounced Dee-mos), a...
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Dr. Christopher Shaw on Teaching Sustainable Development
Topic: Teaching Sustainable Development Institution: Phillips Academy Andover Bio: Dr Shaw is a teacher at Phillips Academy, Andover, a private boarding school in Massachusetts. He teaches world...
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Kyle Cahill on Oxfam and Poverty Footprinting
Topic: Poverty Footprinting Institution: Oxfam America Bio: Kyle Cahill is Senior Program Officer at Oxfam America, an international relief and development organization that aims to create lasting...
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Dr. Bryan Norton on a Pragmatist Philosophy of Sustainability
Topic: A Pragmatist Philosophy of Sustainability Institution: The School of Public Affairs at Georgia Tech University Bio: Bryan Norton is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Science and Technology...
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The environmental consequences of UN Peacekeeping
Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of guest posts in our new interactive blog. Sarah Kleinman is the Outreach Director for International Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs) for Sense and...
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Social Business: an Oxymoron?
“Doing well by doing good” is a much-touted but often elusive strategic goal for a number of social businesses. The wave of scandals plaguing the microfinance industry and the spectacular failure of...
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Justice and/or Peace in Libya?
Today’s guest blog is written by Sarah Kleinman, the Outreach Director for International Non-governmental Organizations (INGOs) for Sense and Sustainability. She is a doctoral student at Oxford...
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A path forward to end a conflict in the desert
Today’s guest blog is by Vighnesh Subramanyan, the liason from Sense & Sustainability to Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development. Vighnesh is a senior at Columbia University, studying...
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Garikai Nyaruwata on the Role of Private Equity in African Development
Topic: The Role of Private Equity in African Development Institution: University of Oxford Bio: Garikai Nyaruwata is a Rhodes Scholar and a Mandela-Rhodes Scholar, who recently completed the MSc in...
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Investing for impact
SOURCE: The Economist The latest episode of Sense and Sustainability, featuring Garikai Nyaruwata on private equity in Africa, comes at a time when interest in both traditional private equity and...
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The payoff from paying off
Photograph: STR/AFP The Lancet featured a paper a few days ago on the effectiveness of China’s facility-based birth strategy in lowering neonatal mortality rates. The paper finds that rising rates of...
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Dr. Gernot Wagner on Environmental Economics vs Environmental Sainthood
Topic: “But Will the Planet Notice?: How Smart Economics can Save the World” Institution: Environmental Defense Fund, New York Bio: Gernot Wagner is an economist at the Environmental Defense Fund,...
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Delivering relief
In the latest addition to the brilliant New York Times column “Fixes,” Tina Rosenberg talks about a new form of aid delivery: voucher programs. In order to reduce logistical costs and smooth the...
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Willy Oppenheim on International Volunteering and Development
Topic: International Volunteering and Economic Development Institution: Omprakash, Oxford University Bio:Willy Oppenheim is a doctoral student in the Education department at Oxford University, and the...
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Making REDD a tool for development
Patrick Behrer is currently a Masters Candidate in Environmental Management at Victoria University of Wellington, where he is a U.S. Fulbright Fellow. His research focuses on REDD programs,...
View ArticleEcuador’s Conservation Innovation
Ecuador has a problem. It is one of only seventeen mega-biodiverse countries on the planet, with more than 5,000 endemic species. But it is also one of the least developed countries in Latin America,...
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When Velds Collide
Maya Cough-Schulze studied sociology and biology at the College of William and Mary, and spent the summer interning with an urban ecology project. She currently works for Eastern Mountain Sports,...
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Markets and Conservation
Development in Latin American countries often demands tradeoffs between protecting stunning natural landscapes and extracting the resources contained in these landscapes. Some countries strike this...
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Sol Hsiang on Climate Change and Civil Conflicts
Topic: Climate Change and Civil Conflicts Institution: Princeton University Bio: Solomon Hsiang is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at STEP in the Woodrow Wilson School. Hsiang studies the impact of...
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Follow-up on international volunteering
Thanks again to Jisung and the S&S team for having me on the show! I’d like to use this space to clarify two clumsy statements I made on the podcast, and then offer a short reflection about where...
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