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The Center for Sustainable Development (CSD) generates cutting-edge research and empowers collaborative action to tackle the world’s interwoven economic, social, and environmental challenges in all societies and at all scales.
Explore the center:
Pressing global issues like extreme poverty, inequality, and climate change require urgent and widespread action. But the problems are interconnected and rapidly evolving. Fast-shifting technology frontiers, fragile geopolitics, and frequently divergent interests among governments, businesses, and civil society only magnify the complexity.
Progress hinges on both targeted insights and collaborative approaches to overcome forces of inertia and political discord. To this end, the Center for Sustainable Development promotes public policies, institutional innovations, and multistakeholder enterprises that advance resilient and sustainable development for all people in all countries, with no one left behind.
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Tony Pipa visits rural towns across America, listening as local people tell the story of how they are enacting positive change in their communities and learning how public investment in rural people and places can lead to increased and equitable prosperity.
The podcast is proud to have won an APEX Award in 2024, 2025, and 2026.
In 2026, the podcast was recognized by the Timbre Awards as Most Impactful podcast of the Year and Best Public Policy Podcast.