At the heart of her work is solving a problem that previously seemed intractable: creating livelihoods and leveraging technology to improve how we live in our cities.
Today's crises demand new visions of an economy based on creating livelihoods while living within the limits of our planet.
It's personally really important to me to revive and keep these ancient skills alive, while also creating livelihoods for millions of low-income people in rural areas in India and Bangladesh.
Chanthavong was nominated for the 2005 Nobel peace prize and won the 2015 Ramon Magsaysay award for reviving "the ancient Laotian art of silk weaving, creating livelihoods for thousands of poor, war-displaced Laotians".
Like the CNT, the CIC is making a new world in the shell of the old—so the utopian mantra goes and, to a degree that is not at all utopian, creating livelihoods for themselves in a place where livelihoods are not at all easy to come by.
Reclamation of salt affected lands, bioremediation of contaminated sites and conversion of waste lands to productive uses via agro forestry/corporate management/community based self-governing organizations can increase the cultivated area and create livelihood opportunities for the poor.
Mr. Lee famously said, "We need talented people who can each create livelihoods for 10,000 people".
Pitch: "We're a beverage company that creates livelihoods for indigenous farmers in the Amazon," Mr. Gage said, "and we produce beverages made from guayusa tea, which has more caffeine than any tea and double the antioxidants of green tea.
Leading up to 2050, the world's water will have to support the agricultural systems that will feed and create livelihoods for an additional 2.7 billion people – so bold global political leadership will be essential in creating enabling environments.
Mr. Mendes was an early advocate of the idea that people who live in the forest could create livelihoods from sustainable forest resources, rather than the one-time economic benefit of cutting down trees.
