Tag Archives: Innovation
A Liter of Light Goes a Long Way (by Ami Valdemoro)
Demitrios “Demi” Bukas was an unemployed carpenter living in a small house in Laguna, Philippines. While searching for a useful way to occupy his time, he learned that if he took a two-liter plastic soda bottle, filled it with water and a little bit of bleach, and nailed it to a corrugated tin roof, he […]
A “Brief” Focus on Disaster Management (By Michael Belinsky)
In a little over two weeks, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, nicknamed Rio+20 for its location and timing, will kick off in Brazil. The Conference will cover a green economy in the context of sustainable development poverty eradication, and the institutional framework for sustainable development. These two themes will contain sub-themes of “jobs, energy, […]
The Learning Curve: Can Brazil Compete in Renewable Research and Development? (By Eric Lonstein and Todd Wintner)
This is part three of a three-part series. For more, please refer to part one and part two. Besides building an industry through subsidization, another way to promote domestic growth in renewable energy is through R&D. Up to this point, leading R&D has not been a part of the Brazilian growth story. Even with domestic […]
The F-word in Development: Creating Space for Failure, Innovation and Learning (By Michael Eddy)
The F-word: Failure. It is development agencies’ worst nightmare and surely sends shudders down the spine of any program manager. However, for the Rio+20 agenda to be successful, development agencies must start learning how to fail. Doing so will help them to learn rapidly and innovate. The priority areas of the Rio+20 agenda are complex. […]
Harvard Students Talk Rio+20 