Resources

Interested in learning more? Check out our list of resources below and feel free to post additional suggestions!

BLOGS

NextBillion
Stanford Social Innovation Review
GOOD
Social Edge
Mobile Active
Change Observer
TED
BOPreneur
AIDG blog
Emerging Futures Lab
Social Earth
Disruptive Leadership
Global Health Ideas
YES! Magazine
id21
Timbuktu Chronicles

UC BERKELEY CLASSES – offered Spring 2010

+ Design for Sustainable Communities, Civil Engineering, Ashok Gadgil
+ Business and Technology for Sustainable Development, Haas, Flavio Feferman’
+ Technology and Poverty, I School, Jenna Burrell

Department-organized list of Spring 2010 courses

+ Blum Center: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/global-poverty-education/global-poverty-courses
+ MOT Program: http://mot.berkeley.edu/Berkeley_Students/Students/Courses/Semester_Courses/SP10.html
+ ISchool: http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/programs/courses/2010/Spring
+ ERG: http://erg.berkeley.edu/courses/
+ EBS: http://sustainable-engineering.berkeley.edu/courses.php
+ CITRIS: http://www.citris-uc.org/ + BERC: http://berc.berkeley.edu/files/Course%20Guide%20Fall%202009.pdf

BOOKS

King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz
The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo and Niall Ferguson
End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs
Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
How to Change the World by David Bornstein
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C.K. Prahalad
Power of Unreasonable People by John Elkington, Pamela Hartigan, and Klaus Schwab
Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher
Everybody loves a good drought by P. Sainath

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