What is the fastest growing job in the US?
You could guess the answer: As the solar industry continues to grow fast, so do its job opportunities. A new study shows that between 2012 and 2016 solar photovoltaic installers or someone who assembles solar panels was the fastest-growing job in the U.S. The average solar job pays about $42,500 Read More...
The Japanese have a skill that’s now copied around the world
If you travel on a train in Japan, you may encounter a conductor talking to himself. He is performing tasks while commenting aloud on each thing he’s doing. He is practicing shisa kanko, which you may also call a form of mindfulness. A study has shown that when asked to perform a simple task, Read More...
Vertical ocean farming could restore marine ecosystems
The premise on which it’s based is simple, too: the oceans are the planet’s life support system because they regulate its climate and provide half of the oxygen we breathe. Its fish provide a staple diet for 50 per cent of the people on the planet. Its water, thanks to Read More...
How to fix climate change: put cities, not countries, in charge
Climate change is the most urgent challenge facing humankind. Other issues make headlines: terrorism kills; inequality affects everyday life for billions around the globe. But climate is paramount, because in sustainability human survival itself is at stake. Why then have the nations governing the Read More...
Study: By 2030, self-driving cars could cut car ownership by 80 percent
Stop us if you've heard this one before: someone's published a study on self-driving cars and the effect they'll have on transportation. In the past year alone, we've seen plenty of those studies. Some show that people are afraid of self-driving vehicles (even though they're totally onboard with Read More...
New technology recycles wastewater into hydrogen for use in fuel production
"Electrical" bacteria are the key ingredient in a new process developed by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory that recycles wastewater from biofuel production to generate hydrogen. The hydrogen can then be used to convert bio-oil into higher grade liquid fuels such as gasoline Read More...
Vitamin D supports probiotics repopulating the gut with friendly bacteria
A high fat diet alone cannot trigger a metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions associated with an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes. Researchers of a new study published in Physiology said that vitamin D deficiency is needed for this syndrome to progress. Authors reached this Read More...
An Interview with David Nicol - Author of Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary
Meditation and prayer contribute measurably to social change. That’s the thought-provoking message of David Nicol’s new book: Subtle Activism: The inner dimension of social and planetary transformation. Nicol teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies and he is a cofounder of Read More...
Possibility: Where peace begins
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Winter 2017 Every time I enter my health-club in California, I’m greeted by a sign: “Change begins within.” We all know the truth of this: non-violence has to start in imagination or vision or conscience. Peaceful action seldom arises from a scattered or Read More...
Possibility: These carrots have been murdered
From The Intelligent Optimist Magazine Winter 2017 In the fanciful Roald Dahl story, “The Sound Machine,” a man invents a device that can modify the sounds made by plants to a bandwidth that humans can hear. Listening through it, he learns that his neighbor’s rosebushes shriek each time she Read More...