Erik Mandell

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Erik Mandell is an intern for Global Envision and a current graduate student at Portland State University. He graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont and has traveled extensively to numerous countries and six of the seven continents.

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May 21, 2012 - Loans without banks: Afghan farmers and USAID cut the middlemen out of finance
May 15, 2012 - Reform in Myanmar brings growth but needs caution
May 7, 2012 - Humanity’s impact in time lapse: Watch how we’ve changed the Earth
Apr 30, 2012 - Maps to the rescue: New tool shows climate-driven clashes across Africa
Apr 27, 2012 - Innovation at work: A gravity-powered water purifier
Apr 12, 2012 - How do you keep a girl in school? Pay mom to send her
Apr 3, 2012 - Four ways an Indonesian city is planning for climate disaster
Mar 29, 2012 - Who needs the grid? Three ways Africans are making DIY electricity cheaper
Mar 22, 2012 - Environmental engineering pioneers innovative clean water sources
Mar 21, 2012 - Solyndwha? Worldwide, cleantech industry is thriving
Mar 15, 2012 - New map shows where cash transfers work - and where they don’t
Mar 9, 2012 - A climate warrior deposed: Maldives coup could sink more than a presidency
Feb 29, 2012 - Carbon credits get a boost from Chinese leadership
Feb 27, 2012 - Seeking prosperity? More often than ever, there's a map for that
Feb 16, 2012 - U.N. on electricity: Green growth needs a good grid
Feb 13, 2012 - Made in Africa: Three mobile apps to fight climate crisis
Feb 2, 2012 - Diffusing a carbon bomb: tapping Canadian tar sands would hit Africa’s poor hardest
Jan 31, 2012 - The East Africa drought: forecasting for humanitarian aid
Jan 25, 2012 - Payment for protection: an innovative program boosts incomes and saves trees
Jan 24, 2012 - New projects help the poor save as well as borrow
Jan 18, 2012 - As Portugal eyes Brazil's wealth, will the colonial winds reverse?
Jan 11, 2012 - Aid for profit? Dutch supermarket giant says ‘sure’
Jan 6, 2012 - Honduras envisions a Caribbean Hong Kong, but 'charter city' plan meets criticism
Dec 13, 2011 - As international aid patterns shift, microfinance picks up the slack
Dec 5, 2011 - Amid financial crisis, China is the new champion for carbon reduction
Nov 29, 2011 - ‘Economy of resourcefulness’ breeds prosperity worldwide: informal economy goes global


Stories We're Watching

Jobs for Billionaires - By Joshua E. Keating

Foreign Policy - Thu, 05/24/2012 - 07:25
A few problems back here on Earth in need of some serious capital.

Panda glasses are Toms shoes for your face

Washington Post - Innovations - Thu, 05/24/2012 - 02:30
Growing up in a Chinese home, Vincent Ko saw the many uses of bamboo — in the kitchen utensils, decorations and even furniture. Years later, as a recent Georgetown University graduate, Ko began to wonder if the trendy Asian grass had a place in fashion — in sunglasses, to be exact.

Old Ways Disappearing In The New Mongolia

NPR - Thu, 05/24/2012 - 00:17
With desertification, drought and a booming mining industry, Mongolians are leaving the traditional life of herding. Herdsman Bat-Erdene Badam says he will be the last in his family to tend livestock. His children are trading in their nomadic lives for more stable, often urban jobs.

Two Worlds, One Climate - By Peter Passell

Foreign Policy - Wed, 05/23/2012 - 14:35
Forget Kyoto. There’s a much better way to persuade the developing world to fight climate change.

Brazil and China, Oiling the Wheels of Business

Inter Press Service - development - Mon, 05/28/2012 - 06:21
China's voracious demand for energy has prompted it to embrace Brazil as a major oil partner, fuelling the dramatic expansion of Chinese companies in this South American country. But while some see this as a boost to the Brazilian economy, others fear that it poses a risk to this country's future self-sufficiency.

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