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Geodesign 2A: San Deigo - Baja - Sustainable Development and Resilient Systems – Why and How Our World Has Changed

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

San Diego and Baja

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Brazilian Transportation System

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Geodesign 1C: Brazil - Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science – Planning For Our Future

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Thursday, June 25, 2015

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World suffered unprecedented climate extremes in past decade: WMO

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Alister Doyle
Earth's airglow is seen with an oblique view of the Mediterranean Sea area, including the Nile River with its delta and the Sinai Peninsula, in this October 15, 2011 NASA handout photograph taken by a crew member of Expedition 29 aboard the International Space Station. Reuters/NASA/Handout
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The world suffered unprecedented climate extremes in the decade to 2010, from heatwaves in Europe and droughts in Australia to floods in Pakistan, against a backdrop of global warming, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.

Every year of the decade except 2008 was among the 10 warmest since records began in the 1850s, with 2010 the hottest, according to the study by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The number of daily heat records far outstripped lows.

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A Less Peaceful World, Marginally

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A. Edward Elmendorf
In February 2013, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music visited the United States Department of State to perform to an audience that included Afghans, above, and Secretary of State John Kerry. The country is the least-stable nation worldwide, according to a new global peace index. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
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Over the last year, the world has become a less peaceful place, and although the rate of decline was not tremendous, the deterioration has been steady since 2008, says a new report, the Global Peace Index. The factors behind the negative trend include a rise in the number of internal conflicts, a widening gap in peacefulness between countries with authoritarian regimes and the rest of the world and more countries suffering from recession.

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How the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves manages 700 partners

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Andrea Useem
Rahda Muthiah, left, talks with a woman using an improved cookstove in Gujarat, India. Photo: Romana Manpreet, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
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In the partnerships-for-development arena, the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves is one of the largest and most complex. It launched with fewer than 20 partners and now has 700 around the world. Devex Impact asked the Alliance’s executive director, Radha Muthiah, how the small secretariat manages such a complex alliance and what other “mega partnerships” can learn from the alliance’s experience.

Tell us about how the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves came to life?

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UN: India to be world's most populous country by 2028

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Population growth in China, India, Nigeria and USA, 1950-2100, actual and projected
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India looks set to overtake China as the world's most populous country from 2028, according to the United Nations.

At that point, both nations will number 1.45 billion people. Subsequently India's population will continue to grow until the middle of the century, while China's slowly declines.

The UN also estimates that the current global population of 7.2 billion will reach 9.6 billion by 2050.

That is a faster rate of growth than previously estimated.

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U.N.: World population to reach 8.1B in 2025

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations forecast Thursday that the world's population will increase from 7.2 billion today to 8.1 billion in 2025, with most growth in developing countries and more than half in Africa. By 2050, it will reach 9.6 billion.

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