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Don’t wait for a hero to come and fix things. Be the hero!
The thing with solutions is that they don’t just come out of the blue. You can’t wait for them to happen, you have to make them happen yourself. Listen to this 5-minute podcast, and unlock the leadership skills within you to step up and make a Read More...
International mediation champion Switzerland stands ready for Korea crisis
Switzerland stands ready to step in and act as a mediator to resolve the North Korea crisis, Swiss president Doris Leuthard told reporters in the capital Berne today. “I think it really is time for dialogue,” Leuthard Read More...
EU trade deal must protect the Amazon
The proposal to open up the Renca reserve in the Amazon for exploitation by large mining companies would be catastrophic for the earth’s climate, for biodiversity and for local indigenous communities. At the same time, the European Union Read More...
Taxify provides cheaper, more driver-friendly alternative to Uber in London
It’s hard to overstate the success of Uber in London. In just a few years, it’s turned the iconic black hackney cab, which once roamed London’s streets unopposed, into a near-threatened Read More...
Dark is beautiful: the battle to end the world's obsession with lighter skin
“It starts when children are young: the moment a child is born, relatives start comparing siblings’ skin color. It starts in your own family – but people don’t want to talk about it Read More...
We ignore what doesn’t fit with our biases
We can’t help but be more welcoming of information that confirms our biases than facts that challenge them. Now an experiment has shown that we do this even when it means losing out Read More...
Nebraska greenhouse heated with geothermal energy produces citrus all year
This man found a way to produce lemons, grapefruit-sized oranges, green figs, and grapes year-round in Nebraska—for only $1 a day. He built a greenhouse that is heated with geothermal Read More...
Sharing economy report: 85 percent of people make less than $500 a month
Here’s an analysis how much money people are actually making on sharing economy platforms like Uber and AirBnB. Airbnb hosts make nearly three times as much as other sharing economy workers. The data seems to indicate that most people use the platforms to generate some additional income not to Read More...
California wants to change the law and only allow renewable energy on grid
California lawmakers are considering passing a law that would ensure that eventually only clean energy moves through the state’s electricity grid, a goal nearly unmatched anywhere in the world. The proposal would accelerate the adoption of renewable energy by requiring utilities to obtain 60 Read More...
Fat is healthy and low-fat diets don’t make you thin, big new study confirms
We have been misguided about fat. More and more research shows that eating fat is actually healthy and it does not make you fat. A large new analysis in the medical journal The Lancet compared more than 135,000 people on low-fat and low-carb diets across 18 countries. The researchers found that Read More...