Jul 27, 2015 | At Work, Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security
Joan Bigham, Executive Director, Global Solution Networks. Several times a week subscribers to the Avaaz email newsletter can see the organization in action. From the decimation of African elephants to the immigration disaster unfolding in slow motion in the...
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...
Jul 3, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Governance Networks, Knowledge Networks, Operational and Delivery Networks, Policy Networks
Brendan Guy, Global Policy Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council Four dynamic networks are guiding the development of proposed targets in advance of the UN summit to adopt the post 2015 development agenda‑2015 Time for Global Action for People and Planet—which...
Jun 17, 2015 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship
The fossil fuel industry is actively and aggressively lobbying national governments and funding international meetings in an effort to interfere with the development of climate policy. Delegates from industry groups are being given preferential access to delegates at...
Jun 5, 2015 | Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Health & Human Security
A new report by the Environmental Defense Fund, “The Potential for Global Fish Recovery,” shows that effective management of global fisheries doesn’t require a reduction in fishing per se, and, in fact, can result in both more food resources and...
May 28, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
During the California drought of the 1980s Santa Barbara built a desalinization plant to provide drinking water to the city. The plant, which only ran for six weeks after it was completed in 1992, is being reopened. The plant comes with concerns about the economic and...