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Food

Local Warming

Global warming may end up helping some poor farmers who will be able to sell their crops for higher prices.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Summer 2010
 
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Environment

Tech Clears the Air

Manufacturers in the United States are building more and more products while churning out less and less air pollution.

By Alana Conner | Spring 2010
 
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Social Innovations

Q&A: Fred Krupp

Under Fred Krupp’s leadership, the Environmental Defense Fund has become one of the most important power brokers in the environmental arena. Krupp has helped accomplish what some thought was impossible—getting businesses to go green voluntarily.

By Eric Nee | 2 | Fall 2009
 
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Environment

Offsetting Green Guilt

Voluntary carbon offsets allow people to invest in projects that allegedly counteract their greenhouse gas emissions. But can voluntary offsets help slow global warming? Or are offsets a way for consumers to buy their way out of bad feelings?

By Matthew J. Kotchen | 5 | Spring 2009
 
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Social Innovations

Rediscovering Social Innovation

Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular rallying points for those trying to improve the world. These two notions are positive ones, but neither is adequate when it comes to understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations. The authors make the case that social innovation is a better vehicle for doing this. They also explain why most of today's innovative social solutions cut across the traditional boundaries separating nonprofits, government, and for-profit businesses.

By James A. Phills Jr., Kriss Deiglmeier, & Dale T. Miller | 6 | Fall 2008
 

Social Innovations

Review: Break Through

Small-scale efforts won't solve the global warming crisis.

By Sacha Zimmerman | Winter 2008