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Australia drops Tasmanian wilderness logging campaign
The Australian and Tasmanian authorities are abandoning their bid to have logging permitted in the Tasmanian Wilderness, a World Heritage site. The decision comes after a report by the UN cultural agency Unesco said the area "should be off-limits to commercial logging in its entirety". Read More...
Remote reefs thrive despite climate change
Remote coral reefs continue to thrive despite warming oceans. That’s the outcome of a decade-long study of remote islands in the Central Pacific. The report from University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provides reason for optimism by highlighting the potential Read More...
Starwood Hotels first U.S. company to do business with Cuba since 1959
President Obama’s visit to Cuba is not only restoring the political relationship between the United States and the island in the Caribbean. Only hours after Obama’s arrival in Havana the first business deal with the Cuban authorities since the revolution of 1959 was announced: US hotel company Read More...
EU: Energy efficiency will replace oil as “fuel”
Renewable energy guru, Amory Lovins, famously said: “We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes than in all the oil buried in Alaska.” A new report by the Joint Research Center of the European Commission proves his point. The sum of energy savings plus the renewable energy power of Read More...
Create your personal mantra and change your life
Mantras are ancient Sanskrit sacred texts that support meditation. But some argue that you can create a—modern—personal mantra that may work just as well to quiet and focus your mind. Here are five steps to design your own Read More...
Cows, rejoice! We don’t need your milk anymore!
Together with environmental engineer Perumal Gandhi and CEO of New Harvest Isha Datar, Ryan set out to create “a real dairy product that relies in no way on animal husbandry.” Muufri (pronounced Moo-free, get it?) is not meant to undercut small farmers, rather it serves as a much-needed Read More...
Meditation plus running as a treatment for depression
The fitness routine of meditation followed by running may be effective in treating people diagnosed with depression, a new study suggests. In the study, volunteers, some of whom had been given diagnoses of depression, took part in a treatment program twice a week for eight weeks where they did Read More...
Your next alternative power source: Tomatoes
A vitamin-rich tomato is perfect for boosting your energy, but for all the rotten or damaged tomatoes that never reach your plate and end up in the landfill along with the unwanted tomato skins and seeds from processed products like ketchup, the result is a major production of methane, which only Read More...
”Doubling global renewables by 2030 could save $4.2 trillion”
Doubling the share of clean energy in the global energy mix would create more jobs, save millions of lives, limit global warming and save $4.2 trillion a year, say researchers of the International Renewable Energy Agency. Renewable sources, such as wind and solar, accounted for around 18 percent Read More...
Transforming your desk into a peaceful, productive place to work
Your desk should be the starting point of your productive life. Some argue that a messy desk is a sign of creativity. Champions of chaos like Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg might agree. More often than not, however, a messy desk is just messy. Unless you’re already a creative Read More...