The Resources Legacy Fund is a philanthropy organization that works in the western United States to fund land, watershed, and marine conservation, as well as other multisolving policies that increase ...
Elderly Kenyan Entrepreneurs Preserve Forests & Livelihoods
The Theraka Green Gold Group, made up of women over the age of 60, is a group of Kenyan entrepreneurs who weave baskets and harvest baobab and tamarind fruits to make juice. These income-generating ...
How to Ensure Your Multisolving Project Delivers Results
Multisolving project leaders share five strategies that have powered their work We were very fortunate to have three leaders of multisolving projects that we featured in our Multisolving at the ...
California Requires New Homes Have Solar Panels, Energy Efficiency
In mid-May, the California Energy Commission voted unanimously to approve building standards that will require new California homes to have rooftop solar panels, greater energy efficiency, better ...
6 Methods to Unlock the Magic of Multisolving
The complex and interconnected challenges facing us today require solutions that pool people's expertise, funding, and political will to create solutions that multisolve, or solve multiple problems at ...
Lakota Solar Grows Native-Owned Renewables in Tribal Communities
Lakota Solar Enterprises is a Native-owned and operated renewable energy company located on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Its aim is to help tribal lands reduce their dependence on ...
Urban Mining Turns Waste into Value
Urban mining, or recycling and reusing everything from buildings to electronics to household waste, is a way to preserve the value of goods that would otherwise be thrown away. Nearly everything can ...
New York Times Op-Ed: Burning Wood is Worse than Coal for the Climate
Is replacing coal burning with biomass good for climate change, or does it actually create more emissions? Climate Interactive and MIT's John Sterman and a team of scientists from Duke, Oregon State, ...
World Climate at the University of Ghana, Legon
Guest blog post by Dr. Jemima Yakah Amoah This World Climate Simulation was facilitated by Dr. Mrs. Jemima Yakah Amoah, Lecturer, Agricultural Extension Department, University of Ghana. Email: ...
Turning Mountaintop Coal Mines into Farms
Coalfield Development, a nonprofit social enterprise in West Virginia, is working to turn former coal mining areas and mountaintop removal sites into farmland and forest, using farm animals ...
Helping Refugees Start Urban Farms
Plant It Forward Farms trains refugees in the city of Houston to set up their own urban, organic farming businesses. Although Houston resettles the highest number of refugees in the USA, many are ...
Regenerative Agriculture Protects the Land and Its Inhabitants
Regenerative agriculture is a type of farming that sequesters CO2 while improving water retention, soil health, and rainfall conservation. It uses techniques such as agroforestry, crop rotation, and ...