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Matt Corke

Robert Neuwirth: The power of the informal economy | Video on TED.com - 2 views

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  • Robert Neuwirth spent four years among the chaotic stalls of street markets, talking to pushcart hawkers and gray marketers, to study the remarkable "System D," the world's unlicensed economic network. Responsible for some 1.8 billion jobs, it's an economy of underappreciated power and scope.
Matt Corke

Toward Zero Waste: Mumbai's Informal Recycling Economy | Sustainable Cities Collective - 1 views

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  • Mumbai’s rapid growth, high density, and sheer size present significant challenges for its waste management system. The enormous quantity of waste generated in the city makes large-scale, technologically driven “solutions” tempting. However, the opposite approach—a highly decentralized, people-powered model of waste management—has proven successful
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