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What does Deepak Chopra's daily routine look like?
How does an alternative medicine guru stay mentally clear and present? Deepak Chopra’s latest book, Metahuman, comes out October 1st and features his thoughts on how to expand our lives beyond daily living to find deeper purpose. Today, we share what his daily routine looks like and how he Read More...
Outdoor apparel company Timberland will plant 50m trees in the next five years
Outdoor lifestyle brand, Timberland, has embarked on a mission to plant 50 million trees over the next five years. Partnering with non-profits like the Smallholder Farmers Alliance and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, the apparel company will begin with projects in Haiti, the Read More...
Solar panels are helping US farmers make ends meet
Since the start of the trade war between the US and China, there have been many people affected by the dispute, but small farmers have been bearing the brunt of it. The tit-for-tat tariffs applied by both countries to each other’s goods have cut demand for American crops, putting many small Read More...
This open-source home design might revolutionize the way we build
Keeping the fifth largest city in America running in a hot and arid desert climate is a difficult task, but the city of Phoenix, Arizona has pledged to do so and go carbon neutral and zero-waste. To achieve this, the city held a sustainable home design competition to come up with a single-family Read More...
Dutch airline KLM will replace short-haul flight with rail service to cut emissions
It’s as straightforward as that: flying less is essential to curbing the aviation industry’s heavy carbon footprint. And, while sometimes there are no ways around it, replacing short-haul flight operations with other means of transportation can have a significant positive impact on the Read More...
New NASA telescope project will allow us to foresee what the dinosaurs could not
Most of us probably don’t worry about asteroids on a daily basis, but for NASA, this is one of the threats to our planet that must be considered. In an effort to avoid meeting the same fate as the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, NASA is planning to launch a space telescope to monitor for Read More...
We could eradicate malaria by 2050, but it will take three crucial steps
Mosquitos can be a pesky summertime problem, but for countries who have not eradicated malaria, they can be more than an itchy nuisance - they can be deadly. The good news: according to the Lancet Commission on malaria eradication, we have the technology required to eradicate the disease, and if we Read More...
This man saved his island from sinking by planting a tree each day for the past 40 years
Amid the Brahmaputra River in Assam, northeast India resides Majuli – the biggest river island in the world. A hundred years ago, the island was a haven for the region’s wildlife. Now, due to the erosion of its riverbeds, the island is slowly submerging under the unremitting waters of Read More...
It’s a plant-based world after all: Disneyland introduces meat-free menu
Disneyland is now the happiest place on Earth if you are avoiding meat. The amusement park will now offer more than 400 vegetarian and vegan options across its locations. The new recipes, including steamed Asian dumplings, a chili tofu bowl, and cashew cheesecake, will be available at Disney World Read More...
Video game detects early symptoms of dementia that medical tests aren’t able to
Detecting Alzheimer’s at an early stage gives patients the best chance to adjust, prepare, and plan for the future. The only problem is that diagnosing the disease can be very difficult. In search of a more effective method of detecting the disease, researchers from Germany created a virtual Read More...