Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016)

Overview

A digital magazine devoted to news and analysis examining local solutions to global challenges facing today's interconnected world.

Rajasthan, India. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-207338305.html?src=download_history" target="_blank">Shutterstock</a>.

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 ...

Kavita Shukla. CREDIT: Fenugreen FreshPaper

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 ...

Kalimantan, Indonesia. CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/cifor/8207797718/">CIFOR</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC</a>).

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.

Claire Nouvian. Credit: © BLOOM

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.

CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/badbrother/4624538493/">BadBrother</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC</a>).

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.

CREDIT: Daniel Sinnathamby.

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 ...

Poor and homeless on the Central Market in Krakow, Poland. CREDIT: <a href="http://shutr.bz/1kFqGEm" target="_blank">Shutterstock </a>

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 ...

Oxford. CREDIT:<a href="http://bit.ly/1QCzSaR" target="_blank">Yann Caradec</a> <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">(CC)</a>

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 ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.new-harvest.org/ target="_blank">New Harvest</a>.

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."