Policy Paper: Fairly Trading the World's Timber .jpg)
Reducing timber loss through responsible management of the world’s forest stock has the power to reduce poverty, conflict, and greenhouse gases. This policy paper details efforts to date and provides comprehensive proposals for much needed action.
Age of Greed
WPI Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick describes the history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. He recounts the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth that has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns.
Claudia Dreifus
Expertise: Emerging global women's leadership; the democratization of science; higher education.
Claudia Dreifus writes about the lives of American and international scientists in her popular interview column in the Science Times section of The New York Times, "A Conversation with..." When the scientific honor society Sigma Xi made her an honorary member last year, they described her as "a pioneering and original force in making science accessible." Ms. Dreifus' interviews with leading figures in world politics, particularly with emerging women leaders, have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Ms., The Nation, Playboy, The Progressive, Mother Jones, Premiere, Town and Country, TV Guide, Modern Maturity, Mirabella and AARP's The Magazine, where she is a contributing editor, and many others. Two collections of her interviews, Scientific Conversations: Interviews on Science from the New York Times, and Interview, are used as texts in journalism classes throughout the world. Ms. Dreifus has reported from Chile, Nicaragua, Burma and Pakistan. Last year, the American Society of Journalists and Authors awarded her its prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award. She teaches "Magazine Writing With An International Dateline" at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). She is currently co-authoring a book, Higher Education? with the political scientist, Andrew Hacker to be published in September of 2009 by Holt/Times Books. She will be teaching "Magazine Writing With An International Dateline," at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs," this Fall.
Her various honors and affiliations include the American Society of Journalists and Authors' Lifetime Achievement Award; being nominated for 1992 National Magazine Award by TV Guide for investigative report on censorship, "TVs Censor from Tupelo"; 1987 Outstanding Magazine Article Award from American Society of Journalists and Authors for "Rodrigo's Last Trip Home;" 1987 American Values Award for "How Rural Woman are Saving the Family Farm;" 1987 American Jewish Press Association's Simon Rockower Award for Distinguished Commentary for "Why I Write;" Special Award for Service to Women, YWCA of New York, 1980; Listed, "Who's Who In America, 2000;" Listed, "Who's Who In The World, 2000;" PEN; American Society of Journalists and Authors; The Authors Guild and The National Writer's Union
Read a number of Ms. Dreifus' New York Times pieces here
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