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This Week: Hope for Change in a Troubled Industry
Proteak?s co-founder, Hector Bonilla is convinced he can defy a deeply engrained and concerning global trend in an extremely problematic sector. He operates within the law, practices responsible forestry and runs a transparent company. This might seem routine, until you consider what he does...
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“Poorism” in India – Development Through Enterprise or Lower Class Exploitation?
Browsing the morning headlines, I came across a startling and at first disturbing trend in the Indian tourism industry.? I had just finished reading a nice article on how the government plans to operate eco-tours of rural Jharkhand when I found a Guardian piece describing one community...
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Less smoke, no fire
About a month ago JP wrote about fuel efficient cookers , but they make me so giddy that I just had to write about them too, with a few fresh examples. ? If you’re new to the concept and hear “fuel efficient cooker,” you’ll probably think “Great! Sounds...
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BOP Roundup – News and Stories of Note
As I mentioned yesterday, I?ve been MIA while working on a BOP mapping project that will be publicly unveiled on June 12 at the IADB conference. Side note ? have you seen the speaker list? Cardinal Maradiaga, Carlos Slim, Hernando de Soto, Nicholas Negroponte, Portia Simpson Miller, Bill...
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