Posted by Editor | Nov 2, 2009 | 0 Comments
Today is the first World Pneumonia Day (WPD). To demonstrate your solidarity with the millions of children who are afflicted with pneumonia every year, WPD asks that you wear blue jeans to school, work, or wherever you go on this day.
WPD has organized a Global Pneumonia Summit of over 100 media representatives, scientists, [...]
Posted by Urban Design Lab | Sep 11, 2009 | 1 Comments
Contributed by Richard Plunz and Michael Conard
On September 10th, Michael Pollan, author of “In Defense of Food” and “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” highlighted the work of designers at the Earth Institute’s Urban Design Lab (UDL) in his Op-Ed Contribution to the New York Times, titled “Big Food vs. Big Insurance.” Since 2007, researchers at the UDL, [...]
Posted by Kyu Lee | Apr 9, 2009 | 1 Comments
Back in the summer of 1997 while working for a small newspaper focusing on UN development issues, I traveled to Bangladesh to see how far this often overlooked country tucked away in a corner between India and China had fared since its independence 25 years ago. At the time the only stories which came out [...]
