Jan 5, 2018 | At Work, Blog, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
Last September, experts from 21 countries with experience in soil, water and land management and agriculture met to work on solutions for the scaling up of organic and regenerative agriculture, land management and livestock grazing. The solutions will address global...
Dec 15, 2017 | At Work, Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
As a commitment to green and healthy city streets, C40 Cities has launched the Fossil-Fuel-Free Streets initiative; an effort from 12 mayors from across the C40 network to initiate a global shift to truly livable streets. This commitment specifies procuring only...
Nov 5, 2017 | At Work, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Companies caught up in Peru’s biggest timber scandal likely knew that their exports from the Amazon rainforest were illegal, according to undercover footage captured by the watchdog GSN working in the area, Global Witness. The footage recorded timber exporters...
Jul 7, 2017 | At Work, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks, Policy Networks
Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) has created a climate change preparedness training toolkit in collaboration with government and corporate partners that will enhance preparedness and sustainability for cities and regions around the world. The kit will...
Dec 7, 2016 | At Work, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity
GSNs at Work: Greenpeace and the seal hunters of Nunavut. Forty years ago Greenpeace was a fledgling organization protesting atomic testing in the Alaskan Arctic, Russian whaling in the Pacific, and the Canadian seal hunt. In the aftermath of those pioneering...
Dec 8, 2015 | At Work, Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Knowledge Networks
The new single-topic news platform will detail the ramifications of climate change in the circumpolar Arctic. Media startup News Deeply launched its first single-topic news site Syria Deeply almost three years ago and followed it with Ebola Deeply. Both of the...