--- title: Bangladesh: How Rice Could Save the Country From Climate Change description: Who's not graduating from high school, the 'invisible subsidy' women give the world's health care industry, saltwater rice and more. canonical: https://time.com/3914417/climate-change-bangladesh-rice/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-09T16:21:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:03:08.457Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Rice Could Save Bangladesh From Climate Change og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3914417/climate-change-bangladesh-rice/ 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: How Rice Could Save Bangladesh From Climate Change twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Rice Could Save Bangladesh From Climate Change by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 9, 2015 4:21 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 9, 2015 4:21 PM UTC **1\.** [**This rice could help save Bangladesh from climate change.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/06/04/408297353/climate-change-ready-rice-keeps-farmers-fields-green) By Amy Yee at NPR **2\.** [**How women provide an ‘invisible subsidy’ to the world’s health care systems.**](http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/invisible-subsidy-in-health-care) By Francie Diep in Pacific Standard **3\.** [**Can kids really learn as much from ‘Sesame Street’ as from preschool?**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sesame-street-and-its-surprisingly-powerful-effects-on-how-children-learn/2015/06/07/59c73fe4-095c-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93%5Fstory.html) By Jim Tankersley at the Washington Post **4\.** [**High school graduation rates are soaring — unless you’re a student of color or low-income.**](http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2015/06/us%5Fhigh%5Fschool%5Fgraduation%5Frates%5Fare%5Fsoaring%5Fbut%5Ftoo%5Fmany%5Fstudents%5Fof%5Fcolor.html) By Alma J. Powell in the Root **5\.** [**You can’t drive drunk if your car won’t let you.**](http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/new-technology-could-put-an-end-to-drunk-driving-federal-officials-say/2015/06/04/1cd31176-0a5b-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93%5Fstory.html) By Ashley Halsey III in the Washington Post  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3914417/climate-change-bangladesh-rice/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3914417/climate-change-bangladesh-rice/"},"headline":"How Rice Could Save Bangladesh From Climate Change","datePublished":"2015-06-09T16:21:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:03:08.457Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3914417/climate-change-bangladesh-rice/","keywords":["Innovation","climate change","High School","dui"],"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/3914417/climate-change-bangladesh-rice/","name":"How Rice Could Save Bangladesh From Climate Change"}}]}] ```