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The dollar value of unpaid work done by women in America is mind-boggling
Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee has a good idea for demonstrating the monetary value of ‘invisible work’ that women do on a daily basis. She put together a calculator programmed with hourly rates for typical household services, minus the fee charged by the company. If we put in all the Read More...
A Dutch supermarket chain is going plastic-free
Plastic packaging has no place in food and drink. There is no logical basis for wrapping something as perishable as food with something as indestructible as plastic. The world cannot recycle its way out of the plastic problem, which is why a supermarket chain in the Netherlands is rolling out Read More...
Sighing: It’s actually the body’s way of resetting itself
While sighs are often attributed to sadness, anger, frustration, and angst, research indicates that sighing is a natural part of pulmonary function. The average person sighs twelve times per hour, and without the one sighs the air sacs inside of the lungs would cave, resulting in death. As dramatic Read More...
Here’s why Lego is swapping plastic for plants
Lego has been searching for a sustainable alternative to plastic since 2015, and it has found a solution in sugarcane fields. Yesterday, the company said it has started production on a new line of Lego elements made from plant-based plastic sourced from sustainably grown sugarcane. The toys Read More...
This beautifully designed 'dumb phone' can only make calls and send texts
The Brooklyn-based startup Light has set an impossible goal of getting people to put down their smartphones. Light launched in 2014 and a year later debuted its first product, the Light Phone. It could only make calls and tell the time, and the company described it as "quite a smart 'dumb' Read More...
How one US state saved $240 million in health care spending
Investment in primary care results in savings in overall health care spending. This has been empirically proven in the state of Oregon. Current innovation in Oregon provides a real world example that can be studied by policy makers, insurers, health care organizations, and consumers for reform and Read More...
Americans keep using less electricity
Economic growth picked up a little in the U.S. in 2017. But electricity use fell, according to data released Tuesday by the Energy Information Administration. It's now been basically flat for more than a Read More...
This 18-mile stretch of Georgia highway is a living laboratory for clean energy
It’s not often that captains of industry have epiphanies about climate change. So it was remarkable when, after reading The Ecology of Commerce in 1994, carpet manufacturer Ray Anderson set out to clean up his petroleum-intensive operation and succeeded in cutting net carbon emissions by more Read More...
Daffodils could be holding the key to killing cancerous tumorous
Researchers have found a compound extracted from daffodils that can serve as a potential cancer killer. As it turns out, the compound can help shut down the “nanomachines” that tumors exploit to grow out of control. Not only was this compound shown to slow cancer’s growth, but it also Read More...
Levi’s is using lasers to make more sustainable jeans
At Levi’s, a brand that talks about trying to be as sustainable and humane to workers as possible, the ugly reality of what it takes to make jean—especially when you are selling $4.6 billion worth of them a year—isn’t something that is brushed under the table. That’s why Levi’s has Read More...