http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:23:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/27/the-us-jobs-challenge-and-its-future/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/27/the-us-jobs-challenge-and-its-future/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:01:26 +0000 David Maurrasse http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31673 Collaboration between government and the private sector will be essential to substantially increasing job opportunities. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8% in September 2012 - its lowest level since January 2009.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/27/the-us-jobs-challenge-and-its-future/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/#comments Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:16:42 +0000 David Funkhouser http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=25614 As the world population grows toward 10 billion, consumption of water, food and energy is expanding at a rate that cannot be maintained without depleting the planet’s resources. If we fail to address these two issues together, we face a grim future of economic, social and environmental ills, warns a new report prepared by a group of scientists and other experts for the Royal Society.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/04/27/population-consumption-and-the-future/feed/ 2