London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, England, and a member institution of the University of London

Restoring faith in carbon credits via new offset markets

5 Radical Ideas For Reversing Income Inequality

Should everyone get a minimum inheritance at birth? How about a government-guaranteed income or job? In the face of a growing income gap, we may need to get revolutionary. If you’re going to talk about solutions to inequality in America and globally and don’t want to piss anyone off, one of the best things to

5 Radical Ideas For Reversing Income Inequality

Getting ready for Generation-C

A generational movement consisting of creative consumers who modify proprietary offerings, and of members of society who in turn use their developments, all without any moral and legal considerations. Think video and audio mashups, jailbreaks for game consoles, unlocked mobile phones, tuned cars, even ‘hacked’ vacuum cleaners that can now be controlled remotely, via mobile

Getting ready for Generation-C

Is Crowdfunding’s New “It Girl” Creating a Generation of Citizen Philanthropists?

“I went on a shopping spree in July and spent four million dollars on girls and women,” Maz Kessler says proudly. As the founder and creative director of Catapult, a start-up nonprofit organization that helps development projects for women and girls get funding, she has every reason to boast. Catapult, a crowdfunding site that insists on

Is Crowdfunding’s New “It Girl” Creating a Generation of Citizen Philanthropists?

Carbon bubble: $6 trillion of new investments at risk

The research is delivered as a warning to asset managers, shareholders and bankers Call it an act of the greatest folly, or simply one of greed. But it seems that the world’s energy companies are hell-bent on spending up to $6 trillion of shareholder funds and bank debt in the next decade on fossil fuel

Carbon bubble: $6 trillion of new investments at risk

The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week

To save the world–or really to even just make our personal lives better–we will need to work less. Time, like work, has become commodified, a recent legacy of industrial capitalism, where a controlled, 40-hour week (or more) in factories was necessary. Our behavior is totally out of step with human priorities and the nature

The Case For A 21-Hour Work Week

Suffer the Little Children

Image via Wikipedia As we celebrate this Christmas with the sound of tiny feet rushing toward a tree to rip open presents, let’s take a moment to consider the children less fortunate — the growing number who live in poverty in this country. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 42 percent of

Suffer the Little Children

Fewer feet, smaller footprint

FAMILY planning is five times cheaper than conventional green technologies in combating climate change.

Fewer feet, smaller footprint

A radical new approach to climate change?

Image via Wikipedia A major change of approach is needed if society is to restrain climate change, according to a report from a self-styled “eclectic” group of academics. The UN process has failed, they argue, and a global approach concentrating on CO2 cuts will never work. They urge instead the use of carbon tax revenue

A radical new approach to climate change?

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Why school suspensions and exclusions have risen dramatically in England – and what could be done
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