Dec 15, 2016 | Blog, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Coral reefs are remarkable, bright colored, teeming with biodiversity and supporting a complex ecosystem. But they can live only in narrow ranges of temperature, making them particularly vulnerable to the variations in ocean temperatures that are being caused by...
Nov 30, 2016 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing, Networked Institutions
Raising Awareness since 1988—Hands Up for #HIVPrevention December 1 is World Aids Day—designated in 1988 by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness of an epidemic that has killed over 36 million people. HIV/AIDS since it was identified in the early...
Nov 2, 2016 | Advocacy Networks, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Policy Networks
Hidden in the chaos of the US presidential vote are climate change issues, and public utility legislation, that have potentially long-reaching implications. National Geographic has released several new documentary pieces that demonstrate that they have held their...
May 17, 2016 | Health & Human Security, Health & Wellbeing
Almost 200 Nepalese tell the World Humanitarian Summit what they really thought about the aid the world gave In the run-up to the first ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul (23-24 May), Christian Aid has launched Nepal Aftershocks: the people’s truth about aid,...
Nov 30, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
Marches around the World — a Silent March in Paris Organizer Avaaz.org changed the plans for the feature climate march in Paris on the fly—canceling the planned demonstrations out of concern for participants’ safety in the wake of the terrorist attacks—and got...
Nov 23, 2015 | Blog, Climate, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability, Platforms
Implementing climate solutions that intend to achieve the deep decarbonization of the global economy by 2050 needs to be supported with a next-generation standards system that applies the tools of the new “digital economy.” The new systems will be more efficient and...