EMBARQ-The WRI Center for Sustainable Transport
- EMBARQ’s work in Latin America and Istanbul, Turkey was the focus of its workshop sessions during the Transportation Research Board’s annual meeting.
New Ventures
- “Mais Isso Ainda Vai Mudar” (“This Too Will Change”). 2004 Forum finalist Henrique Barauna tells the story of founding Oxil Reciclagem de Plasticos and explains why sustainable SMEs are on the right side of history.
NextBillion.net- Development Through Enterprise
- The Fair and Lovely debate continues with more observations and arguments from Andrew Leonard, C.K. Prahalad, Aneel Karnani and Rob Katz.
- Expanding rural access: the case for micro-telcos. Darrell Owen puts forward a replicable, community-focused build-out approach for bringing connectivity, both voice and Internet, to nearly all rural communities in developing countries.
- The “U-Curve” theory of education on sustainability issues, and other highlights from the Business, Engineering and Sustainability Workshop on February 16-17th.
