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Sustainable Development
On the Ground
New York Times online
Health Expert Rosh Ruxin's blog from Rwanda and elsewhere
Exhausted Earth
Reuters blogs
Climate Researcher Stuart Gaffin's blog
Ensuring That Gifts Go Where They're Needed
New York Times, Nov. 11, 2008
Rwanda's Millennium Villages
PBS Frontline, Nov. 10, 2008
UN Village Project Boosts Africa
Financial Times, Nov. 3, 2008
Emerging Markets' Cash Strikes Nerve
Shanghai Daily, Oct. 23, 2008
Google.org Spends $14 Million to Battle Pandemics
Wired, Oct. 22, 2008
Soros and Sachs on Saving the Economy
Vanity Fair, Oct. 21, 2008
Fate of Economy Rests on Next President: Soros
Reuters, Oct. 20, 2008
Columbia University Unveils Master's Degree in Sustainable Development
Sustainable Business.com, Oct. 13, 2008
Columbia Offers Sustainable-Development Program
Philanthropy Journal, Oct. 5, 2008
Making Microfinance Work
The American.com, Sept. 16, 2008
Climate and Society
The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, Sept. 16, 2008
The Man Who Aims to Feed Humanity’s Future
Discover, Sept. 12, 2008
Google’s Philanthropy Arm Leads Effort to Use Weather Data to Fight Disease
New York Times, Sept. 2, 2008
Fighting African Poverty, Village by Village
World Press Review, Aug. 30, 2008
Mobile phones for Africa
The Times (South Africa), Aug. 4, 2008
You Think Oil's Going Down? Think Again
TheStreet.com, Aug. 1, 2008
Should ethical investors dip into water stocks?
Christian Science Monitor, Jul. 13, 2008
Crisis presents opportunity
DesMoinesRegister, Jul. 13, 2008
Green Countries
Newsweek, Jul. 7, 2008
Africa's Food Crisis Opportunity
Guelph Mercury, Jul. 4, 2008
Taking Care of the Business of Public Health
PlusNews, Jul. 1, 2008
Still Counting Katrina's Dead
Huffington Post, Jun. 28, 2008
Africa needs a farming revolution, experts say
McClatchy Washington Bureau, Jun. 20, 2008
World disaster hotspots
Foreign Policy, Jun. 19, 2008
Water: Pay for It
Forbes.com, Jun. 19, 2008
How a Kenyan village tripled its corn harvest
Christian Science Monitor, Jun. 17, 2008
Food crisis may be a boon for small farmers in Africa
Los Angeles Times, Jun. 13, 2008
Response to Martin Wolf by Jeffrey Sachs
Financial Times Comment, Jun. 11, 2008
Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge
Financial Times Comment, Jun. 11, 2008
New Threat to Food System: Pricey Fertilizer
Reuters, Jun. 10, 2008
World Leaders Confer in Rome as Food Prices Rise
The Takeaway, NPR, Jun. 4, 2008
Developing countries and weather forecasts
BBC’s The World, Jun. 2, 2008
Uganda: Churning Money From Banana Leaves
The Monitor (Kampala), Jun. 2, 2008
Fighting Poverty, Village By Village
AllAfrica.com, May 29, 2008
Backgrounder: African Agriculture
New York Times, May 29, 2008
The seeds of controversy
Ottawa Citizen, May 28, 2008
African Agriculture
Council on Foreign Relations, May 28, 2008
In Kenya and elsewhere in Africa, farmers don't see profit from soaring food prices
Herald Tribune, May 19, 2008
Famine Looms As Wars Rend Horn of Africa
New York Times, May 17, 2008
The Clock Is Running Out
ScienceAlert, May 15, 2008
8 Ways to Fix the Global Food Crisis
US News & World Report, May 9, 2008
Research and Education at the Earth Institute
CNBC World Business, May 9, 2008
Why the 1930s Dust Bowl Was So Bad
LiveScience, May 5, 2008
Global Food Crisis a 'Silent Tsunami'
NPR Talk of the Nation, Apr. 28, 2008
Bond Trader to Sell Rare Stamps for Charity
New York Times, Apr. 14, 2008
10 Fixes for the Planet
Newsweek, Apr. 14, 2008
Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket
CNN, Apr. 14, 2008
Rice Riots: The Global Food Shortage
WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show, Apr. 10, 2008
State of the Planet at Columbia University
Janera.com, Apr. 3, 2008
The Battle to Eradicate Malaria
WILL public radio, Mar. 31, 2008
World Water Day
NPR Science Friday, Mar. 21, 2008
(Features Casey Brown of IRI and the Water Center)
Book: The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
By Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, Mar. 7, 2008
Eradicate Malaria? Doubters Fuel Debate
New York Times, Mar. 4, 2008
Millennium Promise
Apogee Photo, Mar. 1, 2008
Subsidising agriculture not enough
The Sunday Times, Feb. 28, 2008
Study Shows Emerging Diseases on Rise
NPR Morning Edition, Feb. 21, 2008
Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Rise
ScienceDaily, Feb. 21, 2008
Britain Is Hotspot of New Germs Says New Study
The Telegraph (London), Feb. 21, 2008
Disease Monitors Looking in Wrong Places
Nature News, Feb. 20, 2008
A Not So Mythic Amazonian
NPR, Feb. 4, 2008
Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
New York Times, Dec. 1, 2007
Fighting a Disease of Logistics, He Means Business
New York Times, Nov. 12, 2007
A Handout, Not a Hand Up: A Popular Approach to ‘Sustainable Development’ Doesn’t Work, Experts Say
Boston Globe, Nov. 11, 2007
Bamboo Shoots and Trees
Salon.com, Nov. 5, 2007
Is a Green Revolution Finally Blooming in Africa?
ScientificAmerican.com, Nov. 1, 2007
Water Crisis in India: Is There Water in the Well?
Earth & Sky, Oct. 30, 2007
Combating Malaria: Battling Over Bed Nets
Science, Oct. 26, 2007
Seeds of Change in Rwanda
TIME, Sept. 26, 2007
An African Revolution
Newsweek, Aug. 21, 2007
Going Up or Down
The Economist, Jun. 7, 2007
Fighting Malaria in Uganda: A slide show from the front lines.
Slate, Apr. 25, 2007
What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You?
New York Times Magazine, Dec. 17, 2006
Malanding Jaiteh Describes the World
Earth & Sky, Sept. 1, 2006
Measuring Our Ability to Map Future Population Growth
San Diego Tribune, Aug. 17, 2006
As a Species, We’re Learning to Be a Mature Adult
Earth & Sky, Jul. 15, 2006
Innovative Villages Seek to Ease Poverty in Africa
Voice of America, Jun. 28, 2006
It Takes a Village to Save the MDGs
InterPress News Service, May 5, 2006
Not Out of the Woods Just Yet
New York Times, Apr. 20, 2006
In a Kenyan Village, an Experiment in Development Has Started to Pay Off
Associated Press, Mar. 23, 2006
Forecasting Malaria
BBC Radio, Mar. 16, 2006
How Can Scientists Help Address Poverty?
NPR Talk of the Nation, Feb. 27, 2006
Europeans Rank High in Environment Tally
International Herald Tribune, Jan. 22, 2006
Fresh Heat for Energy Policy
Business Week, Sept. 20, 2005
Human Population Grows Up
Scientific American, Sept. 1, 2005
Africa: The Human Footprint
National Geographic, Sept. 1, 2005
Bangladesh’s Deadly Wells
New York Times, Jul. 30, 2005
When Will We Tame the Oceans?
Nature, Jul. 14, 2005
Kenyan Village Serves as Test Case in Fight Against Poverty
New York Times, Apr. 4, 2005
Cutting World Hunger in Half
Science, Jan. 21, 2005
The Next Green Revolution
New York Times, Oct. 6, 2004
Soil Fertility and Hunger in Africa
Science, Mar. 15, 2002