Will Day, a thought leader in sustainability, looks at what we currently understand of global trends, particularly focusing on issues like population, water ...
Dr. Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari is the Qatari Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage. He spoke with The Prospect...
Dr. Hamad Bin Abdulaziz Al-Kuwari is the Qatari Minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage. He spoke with The Prospect Group about the Qatar Brazil 2014 Year of ...
Over the last few decades, governments around the world have worked hard to strip away all obstacles to the free...
Over the last few decades, governments around the world have worked hard to strip away all obstacles to the free flow of money from country to country. The i...
More Americans work in the booming solar or windpower industries than in the coal industry, yet renewables are often...
More Americans work in the booming solar or windpower industries than in the coal industry, yet renewables are often claimed to be unreliable, needing vast a...
The Tax Policy and Administration Topical Trust Fund supported the increased demand for technical assistance from...
The Tax Policy and Administration Topical Trust Fund supported the increased demand for technical assistance from low- and lower middle-income countries in t...
What ever happened to letting "boys be boys?" Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for...
What ever happened to letting "boys be boys?" Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun. In another, a teacher was so alarmed by a picture drawn by a student (of a sword fight), that the boy's parents were summoned in for a conference. In short, boys in America's schools are routinely punished for being active, competitive, and restless. In other words, boys can no longer be boys. Christina Hoff Sommers, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, explains how we can change this.
Is it true that 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real? Where does the 97% figure come from?...
Is it true that 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real? Where does the 97% figure come from? And if it is true, do they agree on both th...
Professor Peter Higgins, Personal Chair in Outdoor and Environmental Education, and Professor Charles Hopkins,...
Professor Peter Higgins, Personal Chair in Outdoor and Environmental Education, and Professor Charles Hopkins, UNESCO Chair of Education for Sustainable Development, deliver the sixth lecture in the 2015 Our Changing World series. By October 2015 world leaders will have adopted the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will guide global development until 2030. In implementing these SDGs, Learning for Sustainability (LfS), will play a key role. This lecture will reflect on global LfS developments, and consider LfS in the UN SDGs and the Global Action Programme from a Scottish and UK perspective..