Feb 14, 2017 | Blog, Health & Human Security
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released their annual letter today, a reflection on the impact of the foundation’s work. Among the many programs and campaigns, the foundation has been advocating for 225 million women around the globe who lack access to...
Feb 7, 2017 | Cities, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
In the refugee-hosting countries in Africa, camp-based humanitarian aid has been a default response to the protracted situations of forced displacement. In the anxiety and confusion that has been generated by the US travel ban turmoil, the residents of many refugees...
Jan 30, 2017 | Blog, Health & Human Security
4.1 Miles from The New York Times – Video on Vimeo. Daphne Matziaraki’s film 4.1 Miles, was nominated this week for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Short category. In her 21 minute film, Matziaraki records the endeavors of a Greek coastguard captain, as...
Jan 26, 2017 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security
AS TRUMP DISMANTLES OBAMA’S CLIMATE LEGACY, PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MOVEMENT ORGANIZES FOR MASS MOBILIZATION IN DC ON APRIL 29 Communities Begin Organizing Nationwide to Resist Attacks on the Environment and to Call for a New Clean Energy Economy that Stops Climate Change...
Jan 9, 2017 | Climate & Planet Stewardship
Polar Bears achieved Endangered Species Act protection in 2008, but the Bush administration passed a rule in their last days in office robbing them of protections and putting them in peril from their worst threats: global warming and oil and gas development. The...