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Global Urbanization Defined by The City of 7 Billion
By The Editors Viewing our entire planet as one urban environment is the idea at the basis of the project designed by Bimal Mendis and Joyce Hsiang of the Yale School of Architecture and Plan B Architecture & Urbanism, LLC. To carry out this project, the two architects have been awarded the 2013 Latrobe Prize of $100,000 by the The American Institute of Architects…
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Global Decline of Insect Pollinators Threatens the Human Food Supply
By The Editors An international team of 40 scientists (from 27 institutions involved in the UK’s Insect Pollinators Initiative) reports that pollinating insects, essential to the food supply, are threatened at a global level by a “cocktail” of multiple pressures that puts their survival at risk. The findings were published April 22 in the journal “Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment” (Adam…
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Globalization Collection and Chanel Globe
By The Editors The latest Chanel collection is called “Globalization” and, during the Paris Fashion Week in March, it came with benefits: a giant, rotating, wooden replica of our planet, visibly positioned in the middle of the Grand Palais. Does the Chanel globe provide a real global vision of our planet? The are zillions of pin lights and 300 little flags on…
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In Honor of Earth Day: Planet Ocean
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Global Education: How Simple Can It Be?
By The Editors I like to think of global education as the education perspective expressed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Educating shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and…
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Global Connectedness Index 2012: Confirming Globaloney
By The Editors The conclusion of the DHL Global Connectedness Index 2012 — the world today is less globally connected than it was in 2007 — does not come as a surprise. Pankaj Ghemawat (author of World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It, winner of the Thinkers 50 Book Award for the best business book published in 2010-2011) has repeatedly shown, with brilliance…
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The Giant African Land Snail (Achatina fulica) Goes Global
By The Editors Using all types of human transportation, the giant African land snail has been spreading all around the globe for the past few centuries. It originated in coastal East Africa (Kenya and Tanzania), where the first sightings occurred before the 1800’s. It then spread throughout East Africa into Ethiopia, Somalia, Mozambique, and Madagascar and was first spotted in the US in the late 1940’s…
