Jan 22, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Uncategorized
One of the more ambitious ideas knocking around Davos this week comes from former US Vice President Al Gore, former Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the Global Commission on Economy and Climate. The $90 trillion proposal is based on anticipated infrastructure...
Jan 22, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Uncategorized
A Global Solution Advocacy Network, Action/2015 http://www.action2015.org/ —a movement made up of over 1,000 organizations, coalitions and partnerships from over 50 countries around the world that want to see concrete action and ambitious agreements to tackle the root...
Jan 21, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship
Gina McCarthy, administrator of the US EPA, will emphasize that climate change is a fundamental economic decision in her address at the World Economic Forum. http://tinyurl.com/kvowqr6 as new studies are released on effects of temperature increases on economic...
Jan 19, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship
We have already crossed four “planetary boundaries,” including carbon dioxide levels and extinction rates, deforestation and the flow of nitrogen and phosphorous into the oceans, according to a new paper published in “Science Magazine” by 18 researchers trying to...
Jan 19, 2015 | Blog, Knowledge Networks, New Research, Recent Work
Network Solutions for a New Era of Global Instability Diverse communities with urgent interests are developing innovative, networked solutions that build resilience to many of the critical disruptions unfolding in the 21st century. While the somewhat overused concept...