Fresh Food with Benefits: Urban Farming Grows Wellness in South Dallas
Derek Benefo Asante Tenadu | Wednesday, September 6, 2017
South Dallas residents deserve healthier food than what’s available, but overcoming the long history of neglect that contributed to its systemic food shortage is anything but simple. Community leaders and advocates have struggled for decades to tackle the menace of food deserts, which contribute t... More »
What Can Dallas Do for Sustainable Land Use?
Derek Benefo Asante Tenadu | Wednesday, July 26, 2017
One of America’s most populous cities, Dallas now ranks third in Texas and ninth in the US in terms of size. As the fourth largest metropolitan area and employment center in the nation, the D/FW metroplex provides more than three million non-farm jobs, and large corporations continue to relocate ... More »
Ecotourism: What I Learned from Touring Peru
Audrey Nelson | Thursday, December 29, 2016
I spent my three months in Peru studying and researching with the School for Field Studies. One of my most memorable moments was the day I hiked to a tiny village on a mountaintop with a woman herding llamas. The stout old woman marched up the mountain much faster than us students, all while spinnin... More »
Vicente Fox on Mexico and the US Going Forward
Anna M. Clark | Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Former President of Mexico Vicente Fox delivered a talk last week to an expatriate audience at San Miguel de Allende's Real de Minas hotel. He shared his global perspective and wisdom accumulated since leaving office in 2006. Here are some of his key insights on the U.S. and Mexico going forward:
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Coworking: It’s More Than Beer on Tap and Sexy Cube Farms
Amy King | Friday, August 19, 2016
In the past five years, coworking spaces have emerged as go-to places to set up shop for everything from freelancers to early-stage startups. These days you can find coworking options in cities from Fargo to San Francisco, and most offer a built-in community to connect with other entrepreneurs and c... More »
CSR: Where It Came From and Where It’s Going
Anna M. Clark | Thursday, July 7, 2016
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) calls for companies to adhere to the economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic expectations of society at a given point in time. With roots reaching back to the 1940s and 1950s, CSR became a top priority among the world’s largest companies by the 1990s. More... More »
What the Paris Climate Deal Really Means for the Private Sector
Anna M. Clark | Monday, December 28, 2015
Earlier this month in Paris, representatives from nearly 200 nations reached a landmark agreement that will commit their countries to lower greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to limit the rise in global average temperature to 2 degrees Celsius — thus avoiding the most devastating consequences o... More »
French-American Climate Talks in Texas
Anna M. Clark | Monday, November 30, 2015
As the world mourns the victims of the terrorist attacks that took place last Friday in Paris, plans for the upcoming United Nations COP21 climate talks have shifted into crisis mode. The disaster will not stop the event from going on, but the atrocity underscores the need for an alternative strateg... More »
Transportation’s Vulnerability to Weather Extremes
Yekang Ko | Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Traffic jams, road closings, airport delays, iced light rail power lines – we tolerate these inconveniences as inherent in a complex transportation system. But what if changing weather makes such disruptions more frequent and costly? How do we think about transportation planning in a context of we... More »
Turning Organizational Stress into Resilience
Anna M. Clark | Tuesday, November 3, 2015
When you’re stressed, you cut corners. It starts with substituting coffee for sleep. Before long, you may find yourself missing workouts, eating donuts and consuming too much alcohol. If left unmitigated, stress can cause weight gain, burnout and breakups — and in extreme cases, heart attacks an... More »