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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

Google’s Philanthropy Arm Leads Effort to Use Weather Data to Fight Disease
New York Times
, September 02, 2008

Fighting African Poverty, Village by Village
World Press Review
, August 30, 2008

Mobile phones for Africa
The Times (South Africa)
, August 04, 2008

You Think Oil's Going Down? Think Again
TheStreet.com
, August 01, 2008

Should ethical investors dip into water stocks?
Christian Science Monitor
, July 13, 2008

Crisis presents opportunity
DesMoinesRegister
, July 13, 2008

Green Countries
Newsweek
, July 07, 2008

Africa's Food Crisis Opportunity
Guelph Mercury
, July 04, 2008

Taking Care of the Business of Public Health
PlusNews
, July 01, 2008

Still Counting Katrina's Dead
Huffington Post
, June 28, 2008

Africa needs a farming revolution, experts say
McClatchy Washington Bureau
, June 20, 2008

World disaster hotspots
Foreign Policy
, June 19, 2008

Water: Pay for It
Forbes.com
, June 19, 2008

How a Kenyan village tripled its corn harvest
Christian Science Monitor
, June 17, 2008

Food crisis may be a boon for small farmers in Africa
Los Angeles Times
, June 13, 2008

Response to Martin Wolf by Jeffrey Sachs
Financial Times Comment
, June 11, 2008

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge
Financial Times Comment
, June 11, 2008

New Threat to Food System: Pricey Fertilizer
Reuters
, June 10, 2008

World Leaders Confer in Rome as Food Prices Rise
The Takeaway, NPR
, June 04, 2008

Developing countries and weather forecasts
BBC’s The World
, June 02, 2008

Uganda: Churning Money From Banana Leaves
The Monitor (Kampala)
, June 02, 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 09, 2008

Research and Education at the Earth Institute
CNBC World Business
, May 09, 2008

Why the 1930s Dust Bowl Was So Bad
LiveScience
, May 05, 2008

Global Food Crisis a 'Silent Tsunami'
NPR Talk of the Nation
, April 28, 2008

Bond Trader to Sell Rare Stamps for Charity
New York Times
, April 14, 2008

10 Fixes for the Planet
Newsweek
, April 14, 2008

Riots, instability spread as food prices skyrocket
CNN
, April 14, 2008

Rice Riots: The Global Food Shortage
WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show
, April 10, 2008

State of the Planet at Columbia University
Janera.com
, April 03, 2008

The State of the Planet Is Good
Scientific American Observations
, March 31, 2008

The Battle to Eradicate Malaria
WILL public radio
, March 31, 2008

World Water Day
NPR Science Friday
, March 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
, March 07, 2008

Eradicate Malaria? Doubters Fuel Debate
New York Times
, March 04, 2008

Millennium Promise
Apogee Photo
, March 01, 2008

Subsidising agriculture not enough
The Sunday Times
, February 28, 2008

Study Shows Emerging Diseases on Rise
NPR Morning Edition
, February 21, 2008

Emerging Infectious Diseases on the Rise
ScienceDaily
, February 21, 2008

Britain Is Hotspot of New Germs Says New Study
The Telegraph (London)
, February 21, 2008

Disease Monitors Looking in Wrong Places
Nature News
, February 20, 2008

A Not So Mythic Amazonian
NPR
, February 04, 2008

Cheap Oil is So Yesterday
TheDay.com
, December 09, 2007

Ending Famine, Simply by Ignoring the Experts
New York Times
, December 01, 2007

Fighting a Disease of Logistics, He Means Business
New York Times
, November 12, 2007

A Handout, Not a Hand Up: A Popular Approach to ‘Sustainable Development’ Doesn’t Work, Experts Say
Boston Globe
, November 11, 2007

Bamboo Shoots and Trees
Salon.com
, November 05, 2007

Is a Green Revolution Finally Blooming in Africa?
ScientificAmerican.com
, November 01, 2007

Water Crisis in India: Is There Water in the Well?
Earth & Sky
, October 30, 2007

Combating Malaria: Battling Over Bed Nets
Science
, October 26, 2007

Seeds of Change in Rwanda
TIME
, September 26, 2007

An African Revolution
Newsweek
, August 21, 2007

Going Up or Down
The Economist
, June 07, 2007

Fighting Malaria in Uganda: A slide show from the front lines.
Slate
, April 25, 2007

What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You?
New York Times Magazine
, December 17, 2006

Not Out of the Woods Just Yet
New York Times
, April 20, 2006

Fresh Heat for Energy Policy
Business Week
, September 20, 2005

Human Population Grows Up
Scientific American
, September 01, 2005

Bangladesh’s Deadly Wells
New York Times
, July 30, 2005

Cutting World Hunger in Half
Science
, January 21, 2005

The Next Green Revolution
New York Times
, October 06, 2004

Soil Fertility and Hunger in Africa
Science
, March 15, 2002

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