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New Report Finds America’s Top Polluters

NonProfit Quarterly

Community Impact The industrial sector in the United States—the part of the economy made up of manufacturing and the production of goods—is to blame for almost a quarter of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Sierra Club. For some people, like Etienne, the work is generational. This resulted in the loss of 1.6

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Youth Unemployment in the Developing World Is a Jobs Problem

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Singapore’s government under Lee Kuan Yew, for example, set out to build a modern economy by attracting labor-intensive foreign manufacturing that would create low-skilled jobs first, then shifting to more skill-intensive manufacturing and finally playing a leading role in the global knowledge economy.

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Employee Ownership Policy Makes Major Gains—Next Up, Implementation

NonProfit Quarterly

Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) The shape of government relations for worker co-ops has experienced a massive shift in the past five years. It may not be immediately clear the connection between semiconductors and cooperatives; manufacturing makes up just a little over five percent of the worker co-op field. How does this work?

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Lessons From the Failures of Covax

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Establish clear, realistic, and dynamic country-level objectives and action plans maintained by national governments. For COVID-19, the IP used to develop the mRNA vaccines should have been shared widely, with technical support to expand manufacturing to global majority countries.

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Reimagining the Role of Business in Protecting Biodiversity

Stanford Social Innovation Review

To combat this crisis, governments and international bodies have turned to diverse policy frameworks for biodiversity preservation at national, regional, and global levels. manufacturing and service organizations), reducing their land footprint entails optimizing the utilization of existing built spaces, infrastructure, and parking areas.

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The Missing Tool in the Climate Fight

Stanford Social Innovation Review

And while governments and private organizations have initiated transitions through a first wave of limited interventions, these market shifts are happening too slowly to reduce emissions at a pace that would limit warming to 1.5 The policy-setting, financial, and regulatory powers of governments will be absolutely critical.

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Barbie and the Problem of Corporate Power

NonProfit Quarterly

Mattel began manufacturing Barbie dolls in Japan in 1959 when the country’s economic struggle right after World War II made labor cheaper. Squeezing manufacturing labor overseas became a brutal fallback strategy to eke out a profit. The specialty was: We make items. Now we are an I.P. company that is managing franchises.”