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Friday Wrap-Up

Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Awards, Climate Change, Development, Energy, Recent Readings, Transportation | No Comments »

Not really jonesin' to write about any one thing today so I thought I share what I've been reading. As long-time readers know, I used to intermittently post a Sustain-a-Links newsletter, which basically consisted of tidbits from interesting articles from ...

NOLA, Two Years Later

Friday, October 5th, 2007 Posted in Development, Environment, Feature, Government, Housing, Sustainability | 5 Comments »

As I mentioned in a previous post, my wife and I traveled to New Orleans, LA this past weekend for a wedding. We were fortunate enough to be able to stay an extra day and take a tour of the ...

WTO Smackdown

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007 Posted in Development, Environment, Globalization, Society, Trade | No Comments »

Only a week after I posted my paper, "The World Trade Organization and Sustainable Development", on green | rising, a law student named Daniel Schramm has published an opinion piece in my local paper entitle, "Ecological and social issues get short shrift at the ...

The World Trade Organization and Sustainable Development

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006 Posted in Development, Environment, Feature, Globalization, Society, Trade | 1 Comment »

December 11, 2006 Does the World Trade Organization do enough to promote sustainable development and protect the environment? The WTO claims to be "the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the ...