Online Scrap Yard: What a Digital Marketplace Changes for Asia’s Recycling Trade
Whether a digital scrap marketplace helps Asia's recyclers depends on if the very people who collect, sort, and sell scrap have a say.... Read More
SDGs Goal 8
Why Does Child Labor Persist?
When child labor becomes a solution for improving one’s standard of living, it is as if there is no other choice.... Read More
Seeking Guidance from Karl Marx to Face the Climate Catastrophe
This book explores why, amid an impending climate catastrophe, we should revisit a 19th-century German thinker.... Read More
EESG: We Need a New Economic Narrative for Sustainability in the Age of AI, Energy Crisis, and Geopolitical Divide
With the trilogy of geopolitics, energy, and AI, we should recast ESG as “EESG” where the first “E” is economics.... Read More
How Overtourism Pushes Local Communities Out of Their Own Homes
For the communities at the center of the world's most visited destinations, overtourism is driving them out of their own homes. ... Read More
The Battery Belt on Women’s Bodies: Looking into the Gendered Impacts of Cobalt Mining in Congo
In Congo's cobalt mining regions, women bear a cost rarely heard in the global conversation about technological development and clean energy.... Read More
Supporting Gig Workers in a Staggering Job Landscape
Gig-based economy brings new opportunities and challenges for workers, and gig workers need better regulations to support their decent work and wellbeing.... Read More
Addressing Asia’s E-Waste Management Gaps
Across Asia, e-waste is growing faster than any other waste stream, and the challenges are not so straightforward.... Read More
Farmer Loneliness, the Overlooked Mental Health Crisis Within the Food System
From rural isolation to climate change and land loss, farmer loneliness is becoming more than a secondary issue.... Read More
Green Burnout: Sustainability Workers and Climate Activists Are Quietly Falling Apart
Green burnout is spreading through the sustainability workforce, impacting the people working for people and the planet.... Read More