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A Watershed Moment in Global Poverty Reduction
Shankar Sastry Two thousand and eighteen has been called a watershed moment in global poverty reduction. It was the year—according to two major analyses—that more
February 14, 2019
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Pursuing a Career in Engineering Co-Design: A Q&A with Ryan Shelby
By Tamara Straus When Ryan Shelby left UC Berkeley with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2013, he and his advisor considered his dissertation unusual.
January 31, 2019
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How Indigenous burning shaped the Klamath’s forests for a millennia
Combining scientific data with Indigenous oral histories and ecological knowledge, research by Blum Center Associate Director for Sustainable Development Matthew Potts shows how cultural burning practices of Native people of the Klamath Mountains helped shape the region’s forests for at least a millennia prior to European colonization.
March 14, 2022
D-Lab: Designing Sustainable Low-Cost Energy Technologies for the Poor
Author: Christina Gossmann Giving a man a fish is good. Teaching a man how to fish is better. Yet, fishing is useless without a river. According to Dr.
March 23, 2013
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Power Isn’t Water: Learnings from Kenya’s Rural Electrification Efforts
In Sub-Saharan Africa, two out of three people, or 600 million individuals, still lack access to electricity. Given the massive scale of energy poverty, several
May 13, 2019