Development for Whom?

By Allen White, Jayati Ghosh, The Great Transition

But it is also evident that youth everywhere, forced to deal with a much more insecure and uncertain future, are also more open to creative approaches to change that recognize and seek to address various inequalities and injustices. I find evidence of such creative thinking among my own students, for example, along with a willingness to think beyond the immediate future to the medium term for change. That thinking and willingness gives me hope for the emergence of a Great Transition.

The End of Global Development as we Know it

By Josh Kearns, Engineering for Change

Development professionals do their work under the assumption that the developing world will some day look a lot like the developed world.

Rob Hopkins Introduces New Yorkers to the Transition Movement

By Dan Miner, BeyondOilNYC

As Rob Hopkins explained to a small NYC audience, the Transition movement is increasingly focused on local economic development.  Reports on localizing food production, energy conservation and renewable energy capacity set out next steps toward a new green economy.