March, 2008

The International Herald Tribune

Yesterday Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, spoke at CSIS as part of our ongoing Smart Power

Want to show your support for fighting climate change?  Turn out the lights!  On Sunday, March 29, 2008 cities across the globe will turn off lights between 8pm-9pm as a sign of their commitment to

Those interested in thinking about the world’s lo

In his new book, Common Wealth, Jeff Sachs dedicates a chapter to addressing our water challenges.  On the Mar

According to the Washington Post, the list of endan

On March 26, the Tata Group (India’s largest industrial conglomerate and parent of Tata Motors) acquired Jaguar and Land Rover, two of the world’s foremost luxury car lines.

Check out this interesting online magazine, WorldChanging, which highlights technology-based solutions to challenges in a variety of fields.

Whatever your views on the original wisdom of the Iraq War, it is hard to deny that Iraq’s political future will have important long-term effects on the Middle East and beyond.

Take a look at this interesting <

Food prices in Egypt rose 16.8% over the past year resulting in mass protests, reports the Economist

“The ‘W’ Generation: How the World’s Youth See America”
Featuring Amar Bakshi, Washington Post online correspondent
Friday, March 28 from 12:15 to 1:45 PM
New America Foundation

Here are a few interesting features related to water:

This past Monday, CSIS hosted Jonathan Greenblatt, founder of Ethos Water and former vice president of Starbucks, for a discussion about the role of social entrepreneurship in enhancing U.S. global leadership. Introduced by Erik Peterson, our director at the Global Strategy Institute, Mr. Greenblatt enumerated several trends that are driving the rise of social entrepreneurship, that is, the fusion of public service with the private sector and civil society:

• Environmentalism;
• Globalization;
• Growing inequality;
• Increasing cynicism about government and business leaders;
• Technology;
• Greater transparency;
• Connectedness; and
• Consumer desire for authenticity

As part of World Water Week, UNICEF has

This coming Saturday is Forecasting China’s Future CO2 Emissions

Take a look at this recent paper out of U.C.

To mark International Women’s Day, which was last weekend (March 8th), the OECD highlights several of its gender-related Sunlight at Night

If scientists are successful, solar energy will not only be available during the day.  Researchers in the United States are developing a way to trap the sun’s rays and later release them at night.

According to the New York Times, sky

In this article from the Globalist, Jianxiong Zhang argue

In the recently released book, Who Speaks for Islam?

According to the