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When It Comes to Promoting Prosperity, Production Beats Consumption

Stanford Social Innovation Review

From Consumption to Production We need to change our perspective on the problem: Seeing through a consumption lens orients us toward an arbitrary, and unacceptably-low-by-Western-standards poverty line. Various others work in the space in between, like Charter Cities Institute on urban development and economic clusters.

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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.