Overview
A digital magazine devoted to news and analysis examining local solutions to global challenges facing today's interconnected world.
APR 28, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: "The Third World War Will be About Water"
Rajendra Singh, known as the "water man of India," believes that critically depleted aquifers around the world can be revived with community effort.
MAR 16, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: "Streetfight" by Janette Sadik-Khan
In "Streetfight" Sadik-Khan breaks down her achievements into replicable ideas for urban planners and traffic engineers everywhere, and she also reminds us that the fight ...
MAR 8, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Fighting Food Waste with Paper and Spice
At a moment when most of us look to Silicon Valley for the next highly sophisticated technological breakthrough that will change the world, it's increasingly ...
FEB 29, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: From the Forest to the Health Clinic
Dr. Kinari Webb and her team are saving lives and forests in Indonesia through a very unusual incentives program.
FEB 22, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Claire Nouvian, Guardian of the Deep
French environmentalist Claire Nouvian has devoted her life to protecting a resource that is largely a mystery to most of us: the deep sea.
FEB 16, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Reprivatized Womanhood: Changing Gender Discourse in Contemporary Urban China
Urban Chinese women face mounting challenges in the contemporary era of "reprivatized womanhood." But it was not always that way.
JAN 25, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Southern Africa, a Region Chronically at Risk
Southern Africa is preparing for a humanitarian disaster. Daniel Sinnathamby, regional humanitarian coordinator for Oxfam in the region, talks about the circumstances that are making ...
JAN 4, 2016 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: "World Hunger: Ten Myths" by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins
Chapter by chapter, Frances Moore Lappé and her co-authors demolish the myths that have long prevented us from addressing hunger, and examine the policies that ...
DEC 21, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Can the University Help Make Better Cities?
We need 21st-century institutions for 21st-century urbanization and cities. If we have the courage to reimagine and remake them, universities can be at the heart ...
DEC 14, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: From Lab to Table
"New Harvest" wants to kick-start a bio-economy of animal products made without animals. Some have already called this revolution "the next .com."