--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 13 description: Winter and coal in Ukraine, integrating Silicon Valley, China not going it alone on climate, mesh networks for news and more. canonical: https://time.com/3582858/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-13/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-11-13T17:01:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:07:04.481Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: Learn about: how old corruption could hurt Ukraine this winter, one man's plan to integrate Silicon Valley by example and more. og:url: https://time.com/3582858/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-13/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: Learn about: how old corruption could hurt Ukraine this winter, one man's plan to integrate Silicon Valley by example and more. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 13 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 13, 2014 5:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Nov 13, 2014 5:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**As separatists and Russian troops chip away at its sovereignty, Ukraine struggles with corruption while hunting heat for the coming winter.**](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-12/winter-is-coming-to-ukraines-energy-supply "undefined") By Leonid Bershidsky in Bloomberg View **2\.** [**Leading by example: One Silicon Valley superstar has put tech’s pernicious racism in his crosshairs.**](http://www.fastcompany.com/3037933/the-visible-man "undefined") By J.J. McCorvey in Fast Company **3\.** [**The most important element of the U.S.-China climate deal might be that China has stepped away from its go-it-alone approach on climate.**](http://blogs.cfr.org/levi/2014/11/12/what-the-big-u-s-china-climate-announcement-means/ "undefined") By Michael Levi at the Council on Foreign Relations **4\.** [**Is the next frontier of mesh networks — like the one that linked protestors in Hong Kong — serving news?**](http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/11/can-mesh-networks-and-offline-wireless-move-from-protest-tools-to-news/ "undefined") By Susan E. McGregor at NiemanLab **5\.** [**Lessons from the Bulungula Incubator: Zeroing in on poverty at the most basic level can catalyze community change — and transforms lives.**](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/about/blog/what-poverty-is-and-what-it-isnt-2014-mcnulty-prize-winner "undefined") By Réjane Woodroffe in the Aspen Idea  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3582858/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-13/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3582858/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-13/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 13","datePublished":"2014-11-13T17:01:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:04.481Z","description":"Winter and coal in Ukraine, integrating Silicon Valley, China not going it alone on climate, mesh networks for news and more.","url":"https://time.com/3582858/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-13/","keywords":["Innovation","South Africa","Ukraine","russia","climate","coal","Race","poverty","Media","Hong Kong topic","China","winter","carbon emissions","News","Natural gas","Silicon Valley","heat"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3582858/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-november-13/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: November 13"}}]}] ```