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100 Resilient Cities Reaches Landmark: Full Quota

May 25, 2016 | Cities

100RC Building Resilience The Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative was launched in 2013 with the goal of helping global cities build resilience to the many threats facing urban centers in the 21st century. 37 New Member Cities Announced 37...

When Fighting Climate Change is Good Business

May 10, 2016 | Cities, Climate

Young entrepreneurs are developing good business strategies to solve climate change. Solutions that are both effective in reducing green house gas emissions and also profitable for their developers. Following the devastation of Super Storm Sandy in 2012 New York was...

WEF Young Global Leaders Class of 2016

Mar 24, 2016 | Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security

World Economic Forum recently announced the new class of the Forum of Young Global Leaders. Each year the World Economic Forum elects a class of innovative, enterprising and socially minded men and women under the age of 40 to join the Forum of Young Global Leaders....

Free Wi-Fi, Free Internet, Free Charge, Free Calls at Every Corner Phone Booth

Mar 17, 2016 | Cities

New York Launches LinkNYC—free Wi-Fi hotspots Remember phone booths? Superman’s old dressing rooms? And the open phone kiosks that stymied all the superheros that followed, and then, slowly, disappeared as every pedestrian put a phone into his pocket? A new generation...

Biggest CO2 emissions impact: commuting

Mar 12, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship

Several GSN platforms are working with progressive companies on the biggest emissions challenge for many companies: emissions created by employees commuting to the workplace. In a recent interview with Bloomberg Brief, CEO of Ride—a carpooling app—Ann Fandozzi said,...

Are Cities the New Countries?

Feb 15, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Knowledge Networks

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has released a new report, “The Trends Shaping Education,” that says that cities can learn from one another, share best practice and develop problem solutions in ways that are impossible at the national...