--- title: Ukraine: Why We Need More Than a Standoff description: Why we need more than a standoff in Ukraine, powering Kenya with wind, lifting adjunct professors above the poverty line and more. canonical: https://time.com/3947722/need-more-than-standoff-ukraine/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-07T16:36:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:38.048Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why We Need More Than a Standoff in Ukraine og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3947722/need-more-than-standoff-ukraine/ 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: Why We Need More Than a Standoff in Ukraine twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why We Need More Than a Standoff in Ukraine by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 7, 2015 4:36 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 7, 2015 4:36 PM UTC **1\.** [**In the face-off with Russia over Ukraine, stalemate is the same as losing.**](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/05/america-s-losing-russia-strategy.html) By Leslie H. Gelb in Daily Beast **2\.** [**Africa’s biggest wind farm could generate a fifth of Kenya’s power.**](http://qz.com/444936/kenya-is-building-africas-biggest-wind-energy-farm-to-generate-a-fifth-of-its-power/) By Tinashe Mushakavanhu in Quartz Africa **3\.** [**Let’s pay adjunct professors more than peanuts.**](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/22/adjunct-professor-earn-less-than-pet-sitter) By Lee Hall in the Guardian **4\.** [**Want to invest in your city? Try this Kickstarter for municipal bonds.**](http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/want-to-invest-in-your-city-try-the-new-kickstarter-for-municipal-bonds) By Kyle Chayka in Pacific Standard **5\.** [**Soon we’ll hack our skin’s bacteria to stop mosquito bites.**](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/stop-mosquito-bites-silence-your-skins-bacteria-180955772/?no-ist) By Karen Emslie in Smithsonian  [_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/3947722/need-more-than-standoff-ukraine/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3947722/need-more-than-standoff-ukraine/"},"headline":"Why We Need More Than a Standoff in Ukraine","datePublished":"2015-07-07T16:36:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:38.048Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3947722/need-more-than-standoff-ukraine/","keywords":["Innovation","russia","Africa","Kickstarter","Power","Mosquitoes"],"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/3947722/need-more-than-standoff-ukraine/","name":"Why We Need More Than a Standoff in Ukraine"}}]}] ```