The idea of this Global Solutions Center originally came from the United States and was developed by Barbara Marx Hubbard, who passed away in 2019. She was a futurist, author, and speaker.
As early as 1984, she launched the idea at the Democratic National Convention in the U.S., where she ran as a vice-presidential candidate, advocating for a new social function that could “scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working in the U.S. and worldwide.”
Barbara Marx Hubbard December 2011 (Photo by Norman Kremer)
Henning Jon Grini first became aware of the idea in 2004. He is a futurist and author. It took over ten years before he did anything active with it and established Gaiainnovations.
He created this new website to spread the idea to a larger audience.