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The roots of cooperative capitalism run deep in Japan
Recording resilience: Filmmaker shares Japan recovery experience
An Our World 2.0 filmmaker reflects on the recovery of tsunami-hit towns.
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Food
Guardians of life and of Earth
Around the world, but especially in the planet’s poorest regions, women represent a life force that renews itself daily, sometimes against all odds.
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Biodiversity
A morning in the life-giving Bangweulu swamps
Descended from hunter-gatherer-fisher tribes, the people of Zambia's Bangweulu swamps still live interlinked with their environment.
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Values and the sharing economy
Given the urgency of the crises we face, social and environmental concerns must remain key in the public discourse about the sharing economy.
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Enough is Enough: A path to true prosperity
The authors of a new book lay out why and how to change our economic goal “from the madness of more to the wisdom of enough”.
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Food
How agroforestry schemes can improve food security in developing countries
There is a growing push to integrate trees and shrubs with crops.
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Endocrine emergency: New UN study reveals our chemical folly
The alarming impacts of endocrine disrupting chemicals on human health and environment warrant extensive research efforts.
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Climate
1.5ºC rise in temperature enough to start permafrost melt, scientists warn
Melting permafrost and the resulting threats to environment and arctic infrastructure could be closer than we think.
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Climate
Green housing: In Buffalo, it’s not just for rich people anymore
Can we build sustainable housing that's affordable, too? The city of Buffalo did, while also creating community jobs.
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Ship of fools: Save me from tomorrow
It is clear that we must set a new course to a sustainable, more equitable world, toward a future we have charted, not simply stumbled upon.
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Bridging development goals
Post-2015 development goals and targets must be addressed in a cohesive and interlinked way, urges UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health Director Dr. Zafar Adeel.
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Climate
Retooling New York for apocalyptic storms
Rising sea levels and increasingly erratic storm surges have New York weighing new and re-emerging ideas to improve resiliency.
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Biodiversity
India’s Auroville shows the way in green living
In the Indian township of Auroville, people from more than 40 nations aim to live in harmony with nature and protect the environment as a community.
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Biodiversity
Securing human rights through private sector standards?
Forest Peoples Programme’s Sophie Chao outlines a comparative review of private sector sustainability certification schemes.
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Biodiversity
Eco-villages instead of eviction: a new approach in Indonesia
Eco-villages may be an alternative to evicting communities who have long lived within Indonesia's parks.
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Researching resilience: Young scholars look to communities as classrooms
Students of the ProsPER.Net Young Researchers’ School studied first-hand how communities are boosting resilience.
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Climate
The Skolt Sámi’s path to climate change resilience
In a photo essay, a UNU fellow illustrates why this reindeer and fishing-reliant indigenous community is developing a climate adaptation plan.
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Climate
Greening the world economy through cities
A UNU research team explains how a cities-led green economy could lower resource and energy use.
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Climate
Nicholas Stern: ‘I got it wrong on climate change – it’s far, far worse’
With climate change impacts already beyond expert predictions there is no more time to delay our response.
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Climate
The legacy of Fukushima: Two years on
The Fukushima nuclear disaster continues to galvanize a global movement towards renewable energy, but will Japan commit to a zero nuclear future?
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Climate
China’s pearl industry: An indicator of ecological stress
The world’s largest pearl sector is a microcosm of the problems surrounding rapid socio-economic growth.
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Climate
Who should pay climate change costs?
The co-founder of the US-based Institute for Local Self-Reliance argues for an end to ad hoc financial response to natural disasters.
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Food
Quinoa brings riches to the Andes
Soaring global demand for quinoa means higher profits but pushes Peruvian and Bolivian farmers to sell their entire crops, raising concerns of malnutrition.
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World Economic Forum report offers view of global risks
This year's list of chief concerns includes severe wealth gaps, chronic fiscal imbalances, rising emissions and water shortages.
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Greeks stand up to protect their water from privatization
A Greek initiative seeks to establish a network of 16 cooperatives in Thessaloniki to manage a truly public water company.
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Readers’ choice: Best stories of 2012 and what to expect this year
The Our World 2.0 editors reflect on the most-read articles of 2012 and what to look forward to in 2013.
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Climate
Guyana hits paydirt on low-carbon development path
Guyana's low-carbon push could produce huge economic and environmental dividends.