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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

In this sense, many international development philanthropies are neglecting the most powerful route to prosperity: productive employment in a thriving economy. Historically, these resources have only materialized when countries have achieved massive expansions of economic productivity and opportunity.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

We desperately need both mitigation and adaptation—and that means we cannot simply focus on exciting new products and technologies. by storing solar energy), and thinking about what happens to housing after major climate events. We also have to remediate the harm that has already been done.

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Fisheries and Stewardship: Lessons from Native Hawaiian Aquaculture

NonProfit Quarterly

There are many lessons to be learned from Indigenous aquaculture practices, especially in the areas of climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, resource management, and food sovereignty. 2 In this, loko i‘a served a sophisticated and essential role in protein production, producing an estimated 300 pounds of fish per acre per year.

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“Educational Purposes”: Nonprofit Land as a Vital Site of Struggle

NonProfit Quarterly

Hedge Funds That Conduct Classes Today, universities turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry. Given my work, it specifically focuses on university-driven urban development.