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What Copenhagen and Houston tell us about how “trust” affects cities
You’d be hard pressed to find two Western cities that are more different than Houston and Copenhagen. The former has a reputation for being a business-focused place where everything is big. Buoyed by an economy that has thrived in recent years as the oil industry boomed, residents drive in Read More...
Amazon, GE and the 'geniuses' reshaping sustainability
Summer's over, New York Climate Week has passed and the rest of 2015 looks sure to be busy for those steeped in corporate sustainability. Although the Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal has rocked the world of sustainability in recent weeks, there also has been a more positive flurry of Read More...
This 2-minute meditation will help you find calm with your new baby
For those of you who have new babies, you know that life is full of everyday miracles. But this period can also mean sleepless chaos with little sense of time. This is the perfect moment to practice meditation.Below, I'm sharing a simple practice I teach new parents to help restore calm and Read More...
The case for optimism about the future of the planet
A sustainable future is not only possible, but will be better to live in. But it's going to require some radical change. It's easy to look at the long list of problems facing the environment—mass extinction, dying oceans, climate change—and wonder whether things might have gone a little Read More...
In defense of homeopathy
Homeopathy is here to stay. Despite relentless criticism from skeptics and fundamentalists, homeopathy has withstood the test of time."...and this little piggy cried, woo woo woo, all the way home." Since its inception over 200 years ago, homeopathy has been the target of almost constant antipathy Read More...
Robots could make recycling cheaper and safer
It makes sense to be wary of technologies designed to eliminate human labor. We’re humans ourselves, after all, and we can imagine how devastating it would be if bots could take over our jobs — if HAL or Siri or some other thing could saddle up to our standing desks and compose in-depth Read More...
Robots are coming for your recycling (and that's a good thing)
Robots are starting to take the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs away from humans—and that's why we built them. Working in a recycling facility is dangerous. Recent figures from the University of Illinois's School of Public Health show that workers in a recycling plant are more than twice as Read More...
Chile to create one of world's largest marine parks around Easter Island
Chile will create one of the world’s biggest marine parks around the Pacific waters of Easter Island, president Michelle Bachelet said on Monday. If the island’s indigenous Rapa Nui people approve the plan after a consultation by the mainland government, fishing will be banned from a Read More...
One quarter of the world will run on clean energy by the end of the decade
The Paris-based International Energy Agency is perhaps the world’s most august energy advisory body. It was formed in the wake of the 1973 oil crisis to advise world governments on how to respond to supply shocks and to serve as a reliable source of nonpartisan information on global energy Read More...
Delhi Secretariat to run on solar energy
The Delhi Secretariat will be the first in the country to run completely on renewable and solar energy, the Delhi government announced on Monday. "The Delhi government in association with ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) will set up a three MW solar power plant at the Indraprastha Power Read More...