--- title: How Small Loans Can Counter Climate Change description: Here’s how microfinancing can help vulnerable communities survive climate change, how to fix drug pricing under Medicare and more. canonical: https://time.com/4473962/how-small-loans-can-counter-climate-change/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-31T16:00:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:33.191Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Small Loans Can Counter Climate Change og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4473962/how-small-loans-can-counter-climate-change/ 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 Small Loans Can Counter 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 Small Loans Can Counter Climate Change by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 31, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Aug 31, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Here’s how microfinancing can help vulnerable communities survive climate change.**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/microfinance-climate-change-resilience-by-mark-m--brown-2016-08) By Mark Malloch Brown at Project Syndicate **2\.** [**The presidential campaigns are wrong. Here’s how to fix drug pricing under Medicare.**](https://www.statnews.com/2016/08/12/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-medicare/) By Geoffrey F. Joyce and Neeraj Sood in STAT News **3\.** [**Is the model of Western military intervention broken? Maybe not.**](http://warontherocks.com/2016/08/when-intervention-works-the-instructive-case-of-sierra-leone/) By David H. Ucko in War on the Rocks **4\.** [**Career and technical education programs work. Why is it so hard to start one?**](http://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2016/08/30/career-and-technical-programs-are-in-vogue-so-why-is-it-so-hard-to-start-one/#.V8WlUJgrJaQ) By Monica Disare in Chalkbeat **5\.** [**Try writing ‘anti-to-do’ lists instead.**](http://www.fastcompany.com/3063220/your-most-productive-self/heres-what-happened-when-i-started-writing-anti-to-do-lists) By Kat Boogaard in FastCompany  [_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/4473962/how-small-loans-can-counter-climate-change/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4473962/how-small-loans-can-counter-climate-change/"},"headline":"How Small Loans Can Counter Climate Change","datePublished":"2016-08-31T16:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:33.191Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4473962/how-small-loans-can-counter-climate-change/","keywords":["Innovation","Education","Medicare","productivity"],"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/4473962/how-small-loans-can-counter-climate-change/","name":"How Small Loans Can Counter Climate Change"}}]}] ```