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Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability
With enlightened design, sustainability management and cutting-edge technology we can harness human ingenuity to the practical problems of environmentally sustainable economic development.
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Climate Change and Economic Consumption
Climate change requires nothing less than transforming the nature of economic production and consumption: Not to consume less, but to consume without destroying the planet that sustains us.
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India Honors Earth Institute Economist Nirupam Bajpai for Development Work
India has conferred the high Padma Shri award on senior Earth Institute economist Nirupam Bajpai for his service to the nation in literature and education. The president of India, the Honorable Pratibha Devisingh Patil, will give the award to Bajpai in March, in New Delhi. Padma Shri is given to Indian and foreign nationals to…
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Companies Lay Out Global Framework to Fight Climate Change
As a significant step toward tackling climate change, an unprecedented group of companies and organizations from around the world have endorsed a bold post-Kyoto framework for affecting change at the levels of policy and industry, particularly in regard to creating sustainable energy systems necessary for achieving economic growth. Signatories of The Path to Climate Sustainability: A…
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Edmund G. Phelps, Seminal Figure in Modern Economics, Wins Nobel Prize
Edmund Phelps, a seminal figure in modern economics, has won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics. Phelps is head of the Center on Capitalism & Society at Columbia University which conducts and promotes research on capitalism. He is McVickar Professor of Political Economy at Columbia. >> Watch Related Video Phelps was recognized early in his…
