Recent Articles
FEB 4, 2009 • Article
Doing the Right Thing: How Organizations Can Help us Make Ethical Decisions
What sorts of features must we instill in a collective to make it easier for people to make the decision to tell the truth? What ...
FEB 3, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: How Japan Became an Efficiency Superpower
Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso pushed for concrete carbon reductions at Davos this year, three decades after oil shocks propelled Japan toward "efficiency superpower" status. ...
FEB 3, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Time to Cash Out
Widespread adoption of electronic forms of payment will depend heavily on trust, but it could close some loopholes and jolt the world economy.
FEB 2, 2009 • Article
Letter from the United States to Iran
In a possible letter from the United States to Iran, David Speedie writes of the two nations' shared interests, the causes that divide them, and ...
JAN 22, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Carbon Marketing Wars Have Begun
Carbon Trust has shaped the future marketing war over environmental sustainability by developing a carbon reduction label for consumer goods and services.
JAN 22, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Redefining Progress
Prahlad Singh Shekhawat attended the fourth Gross National Happiness conference in Bhutan this past November. He reports on the conference proceedings for us and shares ...
JAN 21, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Is Ethical Capitalism Possible?
How can business models become more sustainable? Fortunately, global human civilization has all the moral tools it needs.
JAN 14, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Boosting Access to Medicine
As cases from Indonesia to India have demonstrated, affordable drugs are often unavailable to the people who need them at the times they need them ...
JAN 12, 2009 • Article
An Agenda for Obama: End America's Counterproductive Pursuit of Space Dominance
It's time to go back to President Eisenhower's original goal of space for peaceful purposes and ditch America's position that it has the right to ...
JAN 9, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: China's Diplomacy Contradicts Power Politics
Beijing's patient approach toward Taiwan has become an integral part of its global strategy, one characterized by confidence and an emphasis on using non-military instruments ...