Sep 18, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
In a few days the international community will meet to endorse the Sustainable Development Goals as well as 2030 targets to eradicate poverty, tackle inequalities, and protect the planet. Realizing the ambition of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development will...
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...
Aug 12, 2015 | Advocacy Networks, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Today is “World Elephant Day,” a day that celebrates the special beauty of the big animals, but also underlines the issues of poaching and trafficking of these remarkable animals and other wildlife being victimized by the illegal wildlife and ivory trade....
Jul 29, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
As social media explodes with #CeciltheLion postings, and the Internet descends on the man who killed the magnificent animal, WildCRU.org (the organization monitoring the tracking collar that recorded the movements and behaviors of the popular lion) has moved past the...