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4 strategies to connect to one’s inner power and strength in dark times
Honoring. Remembering. Trusting. Loving. Approached from various angles detailed here, these four paths to inner strength can help you reconnect when you feel disconnected, uplift you when you feel broken and fill you in when you feel emptied. Because no show of love and support can replace Read More...
Great Barrier Reef coral significantly safer in no-fishing reserves, study finds
For the first time a study has shown that marine reserves enhance coral health on the Great Barrier Reef. On average the reserves had a 1-percent level of coral disease, compared to 5 percent on average outside the reserves, and even up to 9 percent in certain areas. Coral tissue damaged by Read More...
Can a two-kilometer long floating device remove plastic from the oceans ?
Two years ago the scourge of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and of the plastic pollution that jeopardizes marine ecosystems around the globe, inspired 19-year-old aerospace engineering student Boyan Slat to imagine the Ocean Cleanup Array. Next year this 2,000-meter long floating device Read More...
What if Bitcoin could help mitigate climate change?
How do you like a juicy story with a brilliant and creative free-spirited character as its main protagonist, and a crazy plot to solve humanity’s biggest challenge—the very same one that has had governments dragging their feet for decades? The free spirit is James d’Angelo, who started his Read More...
Community Supported Art allows artists to find their audience around the U.S.
Inspired by the success of the CSA movement, the artist-led economic development agency Springboard for the Arts created a twist on the usual CSA in 2010, substituting “Art” for “Agriculture.” Boxes may include paintings, limited-edition prints, textiles, fine art photographs, and Read More...
6 tips to keep your wedding (or your daughter’s) a reasonably sustainable affair
Weddings make for incredibly special and memorable times. Which is not to say that they need to inflate into expensive extravaganzas marked by careless consumption and unsustainable behavior. Here are six suggestions of sustainable alternatives to any wedding Read More...
Innocent
What he does in prison is less mysterious than you might think: he teachesliterature to inmates.And what he accomplishes with those classes needs to be told. Almost none of the inmates who take Wareham’s classes commit crimes again after being released. His 13-week course consists of reading Read More...
Talking is very primitive
I have the time. “Also, in talking, we can never be precise. It’s really hard to convey ideas, especially when we speak in different languages. You and I now talk in English. Yet, you are fluent in Dutch, I am fluent in Spanish. I’m sure that we’ll soon have a misunderstanding.” So what Read More...
Optimism: There's always a way
That unfounded optimism always infuriated me. Nor is it the kind of optimism this magazine espouses. Optimism doesn’t mean denying reality. Or seeing sunshine when it’s raining. According to the dictionary, the everyday meaning of optimism is "hopefulness and confidence about the future or the Read More...
"I don’t believe in diets"
A diet, according to Verburgh, assumes that you will, against your will, for a certain period of time, eat less. “That’s wrong on three levels,” he says. “All health benefits matter only if you stick to a diet your whole life, and that doesn’t work for most diets.” Eating against your Read More...