Dear GLP community, This month we bring very exciting news, and a lot of reasons to celebrate. The GLP community is getting bigger and the recent achievements of some of our members bring more strenght and visibility to GLP Science! We want to congratulate these members for their achievements which made us very proud! They are: - Harini Nagendra (GLP SSC Member) that received the first Elinor Ostrom Award. - Cheikh Mbow and Sandra Diaz, both former members of the GLP Scientific Steering Committee, nominated members of the first Future Earth Initiative Science Committee. - Karl-Heinz Erb and Helmut Haberl, respectively GLP SSC member and GLP SSC former member, with other authors, for their paper publication on PNAS journal. We hope you enjoy reading the recent news compiled here such as we did. Good reading! GLP IPO