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  • Taking Responsible Palm Oil from Aspiration to Implementation

    Catherine Cheney

    December 10, 2015 |

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    Response Location: Singapore, Singapore

    Palm oil production is driving deforestation at alarming rates across the globe. Anti-palm-oil activists have shifted their focus to advocating for responsible and environmentally sustainable sourcing of this commodity. By doing so, they've gained a seat at the table with the industry’s corporations.

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  • A new kind of development professional: The development engineer

    Catherine Cheney

    September 23, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, Berkeley, California

    At UC Berkeley, the Blum Center for Developing Economies and the Center for Effective Global Action are working together to formalize development engineering as a field of research - a new generation of engineers committed to making a social impact.

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  • 4 Out of 5 Black Women Are Overweight. This Group Has the Solution.

    Catherine Cheney

    December 19, 2013 |

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    Response Location: United States, Henderson, North Carolina

    Obesity has become a health crisis for many women in the African-American community, but a group known as GirlTrek is working to change this by making exercise a social norm and creating supportive connections between women with shared goals. This new organization, which works to identify barriers that many in this community face, channels African-American history to encourage black women to walk their way toward better health.

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