Sep 12, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Luum is a cloud-based software platform that addresses urban congestion caused by automobile commutation. Businesses, tenants, or students can engage the software to optimize parking, create commuter services, manage demand and change behaviour. Learn more about Luum...
Sep 9, 2015 | Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Using carbon-reducing strategies like improving public transport, increasing building efficiency, and waste management in cities could produce savings of nearly US$17 trillion by 2050 according to a new report by the New Climate Economy. With actions such as...
Aug 22, 2015 | Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship
Late August 2005, ten years shy of the New Orleans levee system’s expected year of completion, Hurricane Katrina triggered a cascade of events that became a massive disaster across New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast. Katrina didn’t actually hit the city...
Jul 30, 2015 | Cities, Climate, Environment & Sustainability, Networked Institutions
C40 Cities continues its annual program to recognize leadership and best practices with an awards competition designed to draw attention to outstanding city-oriented actions that have achieved success in the challenging environmental context. The awards ceremony for...
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 12, 2015 | Cities, Health & Human Security, Knowledge Networks
The recent Global Peace Index for 2015 recently released by the Institute for Economics and Peace has identified Iceland as the most peaceful country in the world, followed by Denmark and Austria. Global Peace Index Results Map Ranking 162 nations around the globe...
