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• March 2008 World Rivers Review

What renewable energy source is highly reliable and predictable, especially productive during the hours of highest electricity use, can be scaled small enough to power one building or big enough to electrify a town, is a proven technology whose costs keep dropping, creates more jobs than gas or coal, and could, with a major rollout, displace 2-3 billion tons of carbon annually worldwide?

Dam-free Hydro Taps Power of Waves, Tides, Water Pipes

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land,
Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
Robert Browning, Luria

This op-ed first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday, July 29, 2007

Low-Cost Drip Systems Bring Income, Food Security to Rural Poor

World Rivers Review, December 2003

Paul Polak thinks big and designs small. He aims to cut rural poverty worldwide, and he’s using humble $1 micro-irrigation kits to do it.

• 2008 "Dams, Rivers and People" Report
  

There is no silver bullet that will bring a quick fix to the climate change problem - but a buckshot approach might just blow enough holes in it to make it more manageable. Here we feature just a handful of the many, many good initiatives that are tackling the problem head-on.