Oct 11, 2017 | Cities, Employment & Prosperity
Economic growth may come from rural areas, as food production and job creation come from agricultural opportunities. According to a new United Nations agriculture agency report released Monday. the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report State of Food and...
Sep 30, 2017 | Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Is the US sticking with the Paris Climate Agreement? Or isn’t it? Nations aren’t the only players, in fact they may have the least ability to develop actionable strategies. But if every city with a population over 100,000 stepped up, they could account for 40 percent...
Sep 22, 2017 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Around the globe the poor are living in the path of climate change. The 2017 hurricane season is far from over, and already the impact of the season’s storms has disproportionally affected the most marginalized populations in the US as well. The neighborhoods in...
Sep 2, 2017 | Blockchain Governance, Cities, Employment & Prosperity, Operational and Delivery Networks
Dubai could soon become the first government to execute all implementable transactions on blockchain, hoping to reach the goal by 2020. “Private sector enterprises, which stand to gain due to potential synergies with the government, are also gearing up and early...
Aug 31, 2017 | Cities, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks
Where key zoning for resilience has been missing, Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain in parts of Texas in a new record for the contiguous US. Climate change may have played a role in the raging flood damage of Hurricane Harvey’s fury or the severity...
Jul 12, 2017 | Blockchain Governance, Cities, Employment & Prosperity
Net neutrality is threatened, and on this Day of Action, web companies and activists have once again banded together in its support. On July 12th, over 200 groups — from Kickstarter and Etsy, to Vimeo and Netflix, to Pornhub and High Times — updated their websites...
