WASHINGTON—Earlier this week, according to the U.N. Population Fund, the world’s population surpassed 7 billion. With the global economy in recession and the impacts of a warming climate increasingly apparent, this new milestone comes at a time of enormous strain and has significant implications for the world’s natural resources, its economy, and of course, its [...]

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By Tamar Shapiro and Thomas Legge WASHINGTON — On May 15, Richard M. Daley stepped down as mayor of Chicago. With his retirement, his city lost its chief executive of 22 years, but America also lost one of its most environment-friendly local leaders.  With the failure of the U.S. Congress to pass comprehensive climate and [...]

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WASHINGTON — News from U.S. state capitols does not often make it across the Atlantic, but over the past month the actions of several U.S. governors have been featured in the European press, from last month’s coverage of the decision of three governors to reject federal high-speed rail funding to last week’s coverage of Wisconsin [...]

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Earlier this month, civic leaders in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (a part of GMF’s Transatlantic Cities Network) officially kicked off a two-year participatory regional visioning project. The aim of the project will be to draft a set of concrete goals €“ a “to-do list” €“ for the greater Pittsburgh metropolitan area, a 30-county region that spans four [...]

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