http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Wed, 22 May 2013 13:23:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/populationbomb/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/populationbomb/#comments Thu, 08 Mar 2012 20:50:33 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=23682 “Thank you for coming on this gorgeous day, to sit in an airless, lightless room and discuss how to save the world,” said John Mutter, director of Columbia’s PhD in Sustainable Development and a member of the Earth Institute faculty, in welcoming the audience of the Sustainable Development Seminar, “The Population Bomb: Defused or Still Ticking?” The seminar brought together a panel of demography and population experts, who, Mutter calculated, shared a total of 121 years’ experience in the field. It became apparent, upon the beginning of the discussion, that the population bomb was not so much ticking, as exploding. The current world population, which is estimated to be 7 billion, is projected to reach 10.2 billion by 2100. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/03/08/populationbomb/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/07/9988/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/07/9988/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:28:43 +0000 Samantha Tress http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=9988 Last month I went to visit our Mali project site with two other Water Center staffers. We visited the village and garden where we worked last year (Koila Markala and Tibibas, respectively) and many other gardens where we hope to work in the future.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/07/9988/feed/ 4 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/24/educating-girls-leads-to-empowered-societies/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/24/educating-girls-leads-to-empowered-societies/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:13:58 +0000 Susan Karuti http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=6995 Educating girls and women is an important step in overcoming poverty. Millennium Development Goals 2 and 3 reflect the commitment that female education has a strong relationship with many other development indicators, and that education is an indispensable tool for women empowerment and the reduction of poverty. Girls' education and the promotion of gender equality in education thus become vital tools for accelerating rural development.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/24/educating-girls-leads-to-empowered-societies/feed/ 3 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/06/28/why-women-matter/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/06/28/why-women-matter/#comments Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:27:49 +0000 Madeleine Rubenstein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/climate/?p=1900 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/06/28/why-women-matter/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/06/05/climate-change-finance-as-a-tool-for-womens-empowerment/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/06/05/climate-change-finance-as-a-tool-for-womens-empowerment/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:34:57 +0000 Betsy Ness-Edelstein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/climate/?p=690 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/06/05/climate-change-finance-as-a-tool-for-womens-empowerment/feed/ 2