In recent years the possibilities of the Arctic have hit the news now and again. Mostly it goes unnoticed. For many people the Arctic is still just a big chunk
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Many thanks to former UN colleagues Todd Smith and Odkhoi Bold for your up-to-date perspectives from Mongolia! I will never forget what economist Jeffrey Sachs said in 2002 about Mongolia’s
ContinueThe Yale Center for the Study of Globalization through its YaleGlobal online service has just launched an ebook A World Connected: Globalization in the 21st Century which is well worth
ContinueThe news from the latest Consumer Electronics Show(CES) 2013 in Las Vegas got me thinking how much life has changed since I was a kid back in the seventies and
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In The Global Trends Report 2013, one accelerating challenge is the Fight for Control & Access to Resources. As the world scrambles to deal with increasing natural resource scarcity and
ContinueWe are delighted to welcome Malin Samuelsson as our occasional correspondent from Singapore, who will be sharing her insights about trends — from political to economic and social — impacting
ContinueThe last two weeks have seen unprecedented social unrest around the world – the democratization of everything is spreading but frankly it’s not a pretty sight. Just think back on
ContinueAshley Halligan, of Software Advice, recently published an article outlining how organizations are undertaking zero-waste initiatives – specifically, diverting all of their waste from landfills through a series of efforts
ContinueIs the potential of distributed energy on your radar yet? If it isn’t, it probably should be. Energy transforms economies and lives, so it should demand the attention of politicians,
ContinueThe headlines have been full of numbers recently, particularly as we have just passed a milestone where the 7 billionth person has now joined the world’s population (give or take
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