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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formulaSmall Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula Yak herders in Mongolia may seem like the most unlikely of bank customers. There’s little infrastructure in their largely rural country, making it tough to find a local branch office. But in these sparsely ...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Dispelling Myths About India and Climate ChangeDispelling Myths About India and Climate Change by Manish Bapna Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh need to overcome the mistrust that has characterised recent US-India relations on climate change and energy. From the World Resources Institute , part of the Guardian Environment Network . ...
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Vana KamtsiouI am a future strategist creating Roadmaps for education and elearning, I enjoy movies, philosophy, art and shoppingTwine added 2 weeks ago -
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Walk Score Adds TransitWalk Score Adds Transit Popular walkability ranking now includes bus stops and rail stations. Walk Score , which has become the most widely-used measure of pedestrian friendly neighborhoods in North America, has added a new trick: they're now incorporating transit data into their ...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Small Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formulaSmall Deposits Add Up: Savings, not just loans, factor into microfinance formula Yak herders in Mongolia may seem like the most unlikely of bank customers. There’s little infrastructure in their largely rural country, making it tough to find a local branch office. But in these sparsely ...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Climate Prosperity: Building a Worldwide Clean EconomyClimate Prosperity: Building a Worldwide Clean Economy As world leaders begin to pack their bags for the Climate Summit in Copenhagen next month, feelings of anxiety may accompany the pressure to hammer out an international agreement to cap carbon emissions to keep our planet from entering a ...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Creating 1.7 Million Clean Energy Jobs to Drive Economic Recovery: The National Strategy and the Pennsylvania OpportunityCAP Action’s Bracken Hendricks testified Friday before a Senate field hearing on job growth, tax incentives, and small business. I’m reprinting the full testimony below since he lays out the policy agenda as well as the benefits — nationally and for Pennsylvania. For details on the jobs ...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Donald Shoup on San Francisco’s Groundbreaking Parking Meter StudyDonald Shoup on San Francisco’s Groundbreaking Parking Meter Study by Matthew Roth If you're interested in the power of parking policy to reduce congestion and make streets more livable, the most exciting place to be right now is San Francisco. For the past year and a half, the city has ...
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Worldchanging: Bright Green: Stiglitz and Sen's Manifesto on Measuring Economic Performance and Social ProgressA recent report commissioned by the French government (mentioned previously on WorldChanging ) foreshadows why and how GDP should be supplemented as the de facto measure of progress. The authors are world-class - Joseph Stiglitz was the chair, advised by Amartya Sen . Commission members ...
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