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Clean and Green: The Brave New World of Composting Toilets
This past Saturday, The Washington Post ran an article, Fighting Our Flux Fixation, on the increased use of eco-friendly toilets in the DC region. What piqued my interest was The Post?s discussion of composting latrines, which have the potential to improve sanitation in many urban and rural...
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What’s in a Map?
For many of us, the combination of economic data plus policy recommendations is the literary equivalent of NyQuil. Unfortunately, good research generally requires the presentation of both data and analysis. So how do we researchers and writers solve this problem? Increasingly, the answer is...
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“The Tool to Send Your Money”
Not an hour after Tuesday’s post on an apparent remittance service offered by The Home Depot, I received an email, from their Media Relations Department, in reply to my request for more information.Here’s what The Home Depot had to say:"On May 8, 2006, The Home Depot launched a...
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This Week: Hope for Change in a Troubled Industry
Proteak?s co-founder, Hector Bonilla is convinced he can defy a deeply engrained and concerning global trend in an extremely problematic sector. He operates within the law, practices responsible forestry and runs a transparent company. This might seem routine, until you consider what he does...
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“Poorism” in India – Development Through Enterprise or Lower Class Exploitation?
Browsing the morning headlines, I came across a startling and at first disturbing trend in the Indian tourism industry.? I had just finished reading a nice article on how the government plans to operate eco-tours of rural Jharkhand when I found a Guardian piece describing one community...
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Less smoke, no fire
About a month ago JP wrote about fuel efficient cookers , but they make me so giddy that I just had to write about them too, with a few fresh examples. ? If you’re new to the concept and hear “fuel efficient cooker,” you’ll probably think “Great! Sounds...
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BOP Roundup – News and Stories of Note
As I mentioned yesterday, I?ve been MIA while working on a BOP mapping project that will be publicly unveiled on June 12 at the IADB conference. Side note ? have you seen the speaker list? Cardinal Maradiaga, Carlos Slim, Hernando de Soto, Nicholas Negroponte, Portia Simpson Miller, Bill...
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Stop the Bus!
Riding the 42 to work last week, I was surprised to see a poster advertising a remittance service offered by Home Depot; familiar orange and white logo, copy half written in English, half in Spanish. A multi-national retailer testing the remittances waters? A lure to bring in new customers?...
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