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This is the third conversation in a roundtable series in 2012 titled "Reinventing Low-Wage Work: Ideas That Can Work for Employees, Employers and the Economy." Low-wage jobs are a growing part of the...
Topics: reinventing low wage 
The Commander of the Pentagon's Special Operations Command will discuss the ever expanding role of "SOCOM" in counterterrorism operations around the world, and the outsize role Special Operations...
This roundtable, including presentations from Native Americans in Philanthropy and the Council on Foundations, provides background information on philanthropy, public-private partnerships and...
Topics: CNAY 
The discussion, which was part of the Socrates Program, featured Thomas Gensemer, Managing Partner, Blue State Digital, and Marissa Mayer, then-Vice President of Location and Local Services for...
Topics: digital media, Socrates Program, Socrates Video 
The United Nations Rio+20 Conference will focus on two themes: (a) a green economy in the context of sustainabledevelopment and poverty eradication; and (b) the institutional framework for...
It seems that since the last Aspen Environment Forum no one has solved the problem of how to provide carbonfree energy to 9 billion people by mid-century. But in fascinating new books, two...
Topics: aef 2012 
Our new normal is a population of 7 billion people living in a world that’s a degree warmer than it was a half centuryago. Melting ice caps, rising seas, droughts and floods, wildlife besieged—the...
Topics: aef 2012 
The environmental impacts of natural gas development are real. Public trust for the industry is eroding and its license to operate is at risk. Strong voices —from leading companies responding to the...
Topics: Aspen Environment Forum, aef2012 
No scientist alive today has done more than Harvard biologist Ed Wilson to promote the understanding of biodiversity and its conservation. At 82, Wilson comes to Aspen after a year that included an...
Topics: Aspen Environment Forum, aef2012 
Must extinction be forever? Advances in cloning and DNA sequencing have made recreating extinct species a real possibility. Several research groups around the world are now pursuing resurrections—...
Topics: Aspen Environment Forum, aef2012 
