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Redesigning culture to incorporate today's longer lifespan
Life expectancy is at the all-time high of 79 years. As many baby boomers can attest, aging doesn’t have to be a painful, miserable affair. Many of us, actually, are enjoying good physical and mental health well into retirement age. While some people are happy enjoying years-long vacation and Read More...
Ireland’s energy storage plant to boost grid's reliance on wind and solar up to 75%
Wind and solar energy has a main flaw: it is unpredictable. It is controlled by the sun and the wind—which have little consideration for the fluctuations of power demand based on predictable human activity. The promise of energy storage has been all the rage of late, including Tesla’s much Read More...
Green, cheap hydrogen now ready for fuel-cell vehicles, say scientists
Hydrogen is as clean a fuel as they come… or not. Although it emits very little greenhouse gas, more than 90% of it is currently produced from fossil sources at a high cost. Virginia Tech scientists claim that is soon to be a thing of the past. They were able to produce hydrogen from waste Read More...
Sweet images from gentle Yemen
Yemen conjures up images of violence, mayhem and heartbreaking poverty. Photographer Stephanie Sinclair has paid several visits there in the past few years, immersing herself in the culture. She says of the people she’s met that their generosity, gentleness and thirst for peace were their most Read More...
The Good Country Index aims to promote transnational thinking and conversations
The world we live in has never been as connected as it is now. Trade, immigration, climate change—opportunities and issues bring the human family together like never before, whether we like it or not. Truth be told, many of us do not like it—if the growing trend towards strengthening borders or Read More...
3 easy steps to tame the "monkey mind"
Mind chatter, or “monkey mind”, is all too familiar to most of us. We have the awareness of this loud, distracting—at times destructive—voice in our head. And we are also aware that keeping a steady meditation practice is a fantastic way to keep it in check so that it doesn’t control us. Read More...
Could litigation prompt governments to do the right thing about climate change?
When the legislative and executive processes fail us, let’s go the judiciary route. That is the strategy behind the legal campaign spearheaded by the Oregon-based nonprofit Our Children’s Trust. Its goal is to have the courts acknowledge that the atmosphere is part of the commons and, as such, Read More...
Trend towards consumers’ energy self-sufficiency is about to disrupt the utility model
Technology advances and declining costs for both rooftop solar and energy storage are the conditions for the perfect storm that will soon make utilities obsolete, according to the new report by the Rocky Mountain Institute, an influential energy policy think tank. “New customers will find Read More...
Top academics demand that universities around the world divest from fossil fuels
The Guardian’s “Keep it in the Ground” campaign, which launched last month in partnership with 350.org’s Fossil Free, is gaining momentum. With 176,000 signatures and counting, it received this week the support of Academics Stand Against Poverty (Asap), an international association Read More...
Subway Sets brings obscure talents into the spotlight for sold-out concerts
New York City has been cracking down on musicians performing on subway platforms. It is too bad, given the crop of talents that can be found there on a regular basis. This, at least, is the opinion of Dan Pierson, the founder of Subway Sets. A couple of years ago, the Brooklyn resident started Read More...