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Hey investors! There's a stock exchange just for green bonds
When it comes to the stock market, it’s not always easy to know whether a stock that claims to be green is really green. That’s why the Luxembourg Stock Exchange has created the world’s first exchange that will trade nothing but green securities. It’s being called the Luxembourg Green Read More...
Stress can override benefits of healthy eating
We know that eating well is good for our health. However, new research shows that stress can override the benefits of making better food choices. To evaluate the interactions between diet and stress, researchers recruited 58 women who completed surveys to assess the kinds of stress they were Read More...
Uber launches global assault on food delivery market
In a measure of rising ambition beyond its taxi business, Uber will begin delivering meals in Amsterdam on Thursday just as Dutch market leader Takeaway.com begins trading on the city's stock market. And according to current job listings on Uber and other recruiting sites - for about 150 Read More...
Colombia peace deal: Historic agreement is signed
The Colombian government and left-wing Farc rebels have signed a historic agreement that formally brings an end to 52 years of armed conflict. The rebel leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, apologised to "all the victims of the conflict" and was greeted by cheers and applause. He said: "I Read More...
This Stanford created monster teaches your kids that effort matters more than IQ
Mojo is a monster with a problem. He used to like school, but then math got hard, and Mojo decided he was not smart enough. School became less fun, and Mojo wanted to make a run for it. But he didn’t, because Mojo was designed by Class Dojo, a Silicon Valley edtech start up, and a team of Read More...
No fracking, drilling or digging: it’s the only way to save life on Earth
Do they understand what they have signed? Plainly they do not. Governments such as ours, now ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change, haven’t the faintest idea what it means – either that or they have no intention of honouring it. For the first time we can see the numbers on which the Read More...
Build healthy soil through regenerative grazing
The Resilient Farm and Homestead (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2013) is a comprehensive how-to manual that will help the reader select, design, develop, and manage land for self-reliance and regenerative agriculture, and presents a thriving model for productive, durable homesteads and farms in cold Read More...
50% of EU residents could be generating their own renewable energy by 2050
A people-powered energy revolution—an era in which people can produce their own electricity—is possible, and could happen soon, according to a new report released Monday by the environmental group Friends of the Earth Europe (FOEE). The report, The Potential of Energy Citizens in the Read More...
Lots to lose: how cities around the world are eliminating car parks
With space for roughly 20,000 cars, the parking lot that surrounds the West Edmonton Mall in Alberta, Canada, is recognised as the largest car park in the world. Spread across vast expanses of asphalt and multi-storey concrete structures, these parking spots take up about half the mall’s 5.2m Read More...
Charities were there first: The new world of social enterprise
Have you heard about social enterprises? Social enterprises apply business solutions to social problems. They're incredibly hot right now. So hot, in fact, that I've just come back from the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference in San Francisco where there were over 2000 attendees. It's the Read More...