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 4, 2015 | Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Human Rights, Operational and Delivery Networks
Verité, an operational and delivery network, has studied the issues of human trafficking and labor exploitation in order to combat abuses across sectors and industries. A company that prides itself on its social awareness and concern for both its employees and the...
May 26, 2015 | Blog, Economic Stability & Prosperity, Employment & Prosperity, Knowledge Networks
As world leaders prepare for a development finance summit in Addis Ababa in July, and anticipate new development goals for later this year, a new report has been released by One.org calling for increased commitment to aid from the richest nations, and spending by the...
May 17, 2015 | Blog, Cities, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Operational and Delivery Networks
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel prize in 2009 in part for her observation that communities can solve the “crisis of the commons,” the problems caused by some people taking a “free ride” on the benefits of common resources at the expense of the...
Mar 31, 2015 | Governance Networks, News, Other / Multiple / General, Policy Networks
GSN Chairman Don Tapscott is on the cover of the latest Canadian Government Executive magazine for an interview with Editor-in-Chief Toby Fyfe in which he discusses the power of the GSN model as a new vector for global problem solving.