Jul 14, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Health & Human Security
The large-scale problems that Global Solution Networks are working to address around the world often spill into several or all of the issue categories that GSN has identified. The disaster that is slowly unfolding in Brazil is an example of just such a situation; an...
Jul 12, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security, Knowledge Networks
The recent Global Peace Index for 2015 recently released by the Institute for Economics and Peace has identified Iceland as the most peaceful country in the world, followed by Denmark and Austria. Global Peace Index Results Map Ranking 162 nations around the globe...
Jun 20, 2015 | Health & Human Security
Mary Milner is a fellow in the Global Solution Networks program. Collaborative Consensus Building for the Post-2015 Development Agenda In 2000, global leaders at the UN Millennium Summit adopted the Millennium Declaration in which they made a commitment to achieve 8...
Jun 5, 2015 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security
A new report by the Environmental Defense Fund, “The Potential for Global Fish Recovery,” shows that effective management of global fisheries doesn’t require a reduction in fishing per se, and, in fact, can result in both more food resources and...
May 28, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
During the California drought of the 1980s Santa Barbara built a desalinization plant to provide drinking water to the city. The plant, which only ran for six weeks after it was completed in 1992, is being reopened. The plant comes with concerns about the economic and...
May 3, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security
The crowdsourced information field of “crisis mapping” makes a critical difference in the ability of response teams to reach and help victims of disaster. OpenStreetMap and their Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) were instrumental in Haiti after the...
