Shape Your Future with Helen McEachern, CEO of Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
Helen McEachern is the current CEO of the Cherie Blair Foundation, which is an organization that helps women to empower themselves in their professional life while giving them the support to start their own business. Helen reached this position, in 2017,
Are Biomaterial Innovations the Key to a Sustainable Future for Fashion?
With the advent of fast fashion and micro trend consumerism, low quality textiles have flooded the markets and subsequently our landfills and waterways. Petroleum based finishes, dyes and synthetic microfibers shed from our clothing and are distributed into the deepest depths
Global Threats Offers Global Opportunity
Let’s do some data visualization. Consider 2 billion hectares of land, an area in which two Chinas can easily be accommodated, is barren and of little use to the pastoralists or farmers or for that matter anyone else. Now consider
Innovation platforms: key spaces for CSA implementation
Research suggests that innovation platforms can facilitate the collective understanding and implementation of climate-smart agriculture (CSA). Article in collaboration with: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) seeks to address the increasing challenge of global warming and
Political Tensions Run High in Cambodia
Cambodian opposition leader Sam Rainsy, who has been living in self-exile in Paris, is planning a return to Cambodia to challenge the single-party government of sitting Prime Minister Hun Sen. From abroad, Rainsy has urged "a peaceful uprising" and has
From Rubbish to Resource: Building Resilient Urban Food Systems
Food waste is a global issue. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, more than one third of all food worldwide is wasted. When it comes to food waste, the U.S. ranks second worst in the world, wasting around
Shape Your Future With Kristin Hartness, Director of Canines for Disabled Kids
A Franklin Pierce College Graduate, Kristin Hartness leads Canines for Disabled Kids — an organization working to "increase independence for children with disabilities and their families by promoting service dog partnerships, understanding and awareness throughout the community.” Having lived with multiple sclerosis
Everything Western Media Isn’t Telling You About Hong Kong
"The strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must." The words of Athenian philosopher Thucydides become more and more relevant in today's world, as authoritarian governments use brutality and excessive violence on those fighting for freedom. Police brutality reaches
Shape Your Future with Charlotte Pera, President and CEO of the ClimateWorks Foundation
Charlotte Pera is President and CEO of the ClimateWorks Foundation, a leading philanthropic organization that works globally to mobilize philanthropy and advance climate solutions. ClimateWorks collaborates with funders, regional and research partners, and other climate leaders to strengthen philanthropy’s response to
The Phone Call That Could End Trump’s Presidency
The conversation that took place on July, 25, 2019, between Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump, has resulted in a push by the House Democrats to impeach Trump. This is how a thirty-minute phone call could lead to a pivotal moment
A Call to Action for Businesses to Build a Better World
The new year will bring a new online tool to unleash the collective power of the Certified B Corporation community as it tackles the world’s biggest challenges over the coming decade. B Lab partnered with the U.N. Global Compact to
The universal validity of human rights
The international community must recognise democratic freedoms and social justice as basic principles in order to secure lasting world peace. Only then can a global civil society develop in which men, women and children can live without fear of discrimination, oppression
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