Recent Articles
AUG 24, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Offsets, the Indulgences of Today?
More and more, wealthy individuals and companies are offsetting their carbon consumption out of a sincere concern for the environment, for good public relations, and ...
AUG 23, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: CSR's Impact on Brands Grows
The U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board issued standards this year for reporting how much brands and other intangibles are worth. The problem is that ...
AUG 20, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Tale of Sushi in the Global Economy
Devin Stewart talks with writer Sasha Issenberg about the culture, ethics, and evolution of sushi as a globalized commodity.
AUG 17, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Russia's Arctic Resource Race
The space race may be over, but the war for control of vast Arctic energy resources got a little colder this month when a Russian ...
AUG 15, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: China's Eco-Entrepreneurs
Although China's civil society is stifled, the Chinese environmental movement has taken great strides and made great progress in combating the harms of rapid development.
AUG 13, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Negotiating a New Social Contract
Devin Stewart interviews Grant Aldonas, former Bush Administration Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, on his recent study on the policy response to globalization. ...
AUG 9, 2007 • Article
The Ethics of Climate Change and the Carbon Economy
Thompson argues that we have reached a tipping point on climate change. Consumers are showing their concern over this issue, and some government officials have ...
AUG 7, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Policy Transfer Makes Street Sense in NYC
There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, mused French novelist Victor Hugo. He might have added that some ideas come ...
AUG 7, 2007 • Article
ROUNDTABLE: The Death Penalty Debate
Does the death penalty make the U.S. a rogue state? Arguments for and against capital punishment.
JUL 31, 2007 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Blogger's Democratic Revolution
Thanks to the human love of commentary and information, blogs have created more connections among people and helped propel citizen journalism and democratic change. As ...