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 10, 2015 | At Work, Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Operational and Delivery Networks
Joan Bigham EdD, Executive Director, Global Solution Networks The Center for Financial Inclusion is continuing its work on Financial Inclusion 2020, or FI2020, a program directed at building a movement to mobilize stakeholders to achieve full global inclusion with the...
Jul 9, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks
Greg Lindsay, Senior Fellow, New Cities Foundation @Greg_Lindsay School is out, summer holidays are just getting started — this might just be the busiest season on the urbanist’s conference calendar. A year ago, my June schedule included the 14th Venice...
Jul 4, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, At Work, Blog, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Watchdog Networks
Joan Bigham EdD, Executive Director, Global Solution Networks The Sierra Club continues to play multiple roles in planet stewardship as both an advocacy network and when necessary a full fledged watchdog. Recently, they succeeded in bringing Lumber Liquidators to...
May 26, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Knowledge Networks
As world leaders prepare for a development finance summit in Addis Ababa in July, and anticipate new development goals for later this year, a new report has been released by One.org calling for increased commitment to aid from the richest nations, and spending by the...
May 17, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Operational and Delivery Networks
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize in 2009 in part for her observation that communities can solve the “crisis of the commons,” the problems caused by some people taking a “free ride” on the benefits of common resources at the expense of the...