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IKEA aims to take 200,000 people out of poverty in social sustainability drive
IKEA is to employ refugees at production centres in Jordan this summer as part of a long-term plan to create employment for 200,000 disadvantaged people around the world through social entrepreneurship programmes. The centres in Jordan, which should be operational by August, will employ a mixture Read More...
Buckminster Fuller’s ideas are more important now than ever
Think of Buckminster Fuller, the 20th-century innovator, and you might picture a geodesic dome or his flying car designs from the 1930s. Maybe you picture a crackpot inventor, churning out ideas that seem, at first glance, like quaintly futuristic visions. But that’s missing the point, argues a Read More...
China may lead the electric car revolution
The car industry is in a delirious moment of change. Industry experts say more changes will happen in the next five years than have happened in the last fifty. As self-driving technology and ride-hailing companies circle, change is not only part of the pursuit of profit, but a matter of survival. Read More...
You can eat this algae-based water bottle when you’re done with your drink
A plastic water bottle may take hundreds–or even thousands–of years to degrade in a landfill. A new conceptual design for a water bottle is at the opposite extreme: Immediately after you drink it, it starts to fall apart. And if you don’t want to throw the bottle away, you can eat it. The Read More...
Philosophers and scientists agree: this one thing is the key to happiness
Gretchen Rubin, author of "Better Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives," says strong relationships are the key to happiness. Following is a transcript of the video. I was surprised by how much evidence there is that to be happy and even to be healthy we really need to have Read More...
Could wireless orbital solar panels power future generations?
The only issue with solar power is that it's not available all day long. So what if we sent orbital solar panels up to space to collect the limitless sunlight? The idea sounds wildly futuristic but space agencies around the world are searching for ways to do it. See here how scientists are trying Read More...
Ayahuasca: Psychedelic drug or mental health treatment?
Every year, thousands of people travel to the Amazon to drink the ayahuasca brew that puts them in a state of deep introspection for about four hours. When they emerge, they often report newfound insights into their unhealthy behaviors. While these stories sound amazing, is it really possible to Read More...
Apple makes promise to stop mining rare-earth materials
Apple has one of the most aggressive sustainability and recycling programs in the technology industry, but it still pulls plenty of metals and toxic rare-earth materials out of the ground for its products. The iPhone giant has also faced criticism in the past for using resources that are often Read More...
Study: Biking to work cuts risk of cancer and heart disease in half
The commute to work doesn’t have to be an annoying part of the day. Rather, the commute can be something that is beneficial, that is, if you use a bicycle as your vehicle. In a five-year study of 250,000 commuters in the UK, researchers found that riding a bike to work was linked with a halving Read More...
Googling gives us answers—but deprives us of intelligence
Larry Page, Google’s co-founder, once described the perfect search engine as a machine that “Understands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactly what you want.” The critical issue with this notion is that it engineers all of the information and knowledge we didn’t mean to view but Read More...