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When will our meat-filled diets go post-animal?
The hamburger is a nearly complete reflection of America through the 20th century. Popularized by White Castle and McDonald's, burgers only became the cheap, fast food we know and love in concert with improvements in food preservation, mass production lines, long-distance freight, and agricultural Read More...
It’s lonely at the top: Why CEOs need to embrace mindfulness
“It's lonely at the top" appears to be truer than ever, and that has serious implications for the performance and well-being of CEOs. Mindfulness practices can be a powerful strategy to address this growing problem. The picture most people across the spectrum have of CEOs is fairly consistent: Read More...
Five ways to help build mental resilience in children
Parents have an innate desire to protect their child from the challenges life will throw at them. But how can you prepare your child for the sometimes inevitable life events they might encounter, such as divorce, death or serious illness so that they have the resilience to "bounce forward"? That's Read More...
Five lessons from the European wind energy industry's record year
New figures show 2015 was a big year for both the German wind market and the offshore wind industry Annual figures released today by the wind trade body the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) show wind is still the fastest growing source of new power capacity in Europe. Here BusinessGreen Read More...
Tesla to offer free charging at home and power its Supercharger network with 100% renewable energy in Sweden
Building on the momentum Tesla is currently experiencing in Sweden with 271% growth in sales in 2015 based on registration data, the automaker is announcing an interesting partnership with Swedish electric utility Skellefteå Kraft to supply the Supercharger network in Sweden with 100% Read More...
Google wants to charge self-driving car batteries without ever plugging into a wall
In the future, Google wants you to ditch the plug-in and charge your electric self-driving car. According to Google's parent company Alphabet, the self-driving cars would be able to juice up their batteries simply by rolling over a special charging transmitter in the ground, similar to a manhole Read More...
Mindfulness brings health benefits for unemployed adults, study finds
More and more research is showing the health benefits of mindfulness. According to a new study, published in Biological Psychiatry, mindfulness meditation training reduces interleukin-6, an inflammatory health biomarker, in high-stress, unemployed adults. The researchers believe that these benefits Read More...
No more meat: Plant-based food that looks and tastes like classic food
With the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence a whole new concept of food may soon radically change what we eat. Determined to develop smart plant-based food to save the planet, a group of young scientists in Chile is working on alternatives for a sustainable and meatless future. No Read More...
David Cameron on British prisons: Treat prisoners as assets, not liabilities
UK's Prime Minister David Cameron is calling for a prison reform so substantial it should be the "great progressive cause" of British politics. Ripping up decades of Conservative orthodoxy on crime and punishment, he has roundly rejected the old Tory hang ’em and flog ’em mantra of previous Read More...
How to practice mindfulness when you don't have the time
Mindfulness meditation is all about allowing the mind to drift off and become unconditionally present. With its ability to help with self-control, resiliency and relieving stress, mindfulness is an outstanding activity to assimilate into your daily routine, but doing so can be difficult, especially Read More...