Sustainable Development Doctoral Society
at Columbia University in the City of New York
February 18, 2011 Social and behavioral causes of and solutions to unsustainable development
Project by James Rising: This project is part research and part social entrepreneurship. The goal is to construct a software system that can evaluate the unintended consequences of individual purchases, and match them to charities that ameliorate those specific effects. Using this framework, consumers…
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February 18, 2011 Climate Change and its Social Consequences, Social and behavioral causes of and solutions to unsustainable development
Project by James Rising: The behaviors that produce climate change are overdetermined and systemic, but that fact suggests that there exist “leverage points” within society where small policy changes will have big effects on these behaviors. The goal of this project is to generate…
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