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Emerging economies embrace renewables twice as fast as industrialized nations
Emerging economies have been hindered by the lack of reliable, safe and affordable energy. It turns out that renewable power fits the bill better than fossil fuels, with its adoption growing twice as fast in those countries than in industrialized nations, according to a recent report from Bloomberg Read More...
The Great Transition away from fossil fuels — Lester Brown takes a close look
Lester Brown is a legendary figure in the US environmental movement. Founder of Worldwatch Institute and of the Earth Policy Institute, he has made his mark as an influential thinker on issues of sustainability, including food, population and energy. His new book details the accelerating pace of Read More...
Indigenous crops to provide food security in the dry American Southwest
The plight of Native people losing their way of life, including their agricultural know-how, and adopting the cheap diet provided by the food industry, is a well-documented story. The debilitating diabetes epidemic that afflicts these communities compounds poverty and food insecurity. Rebuilding Read More...
Sexying up ugly produce to reduce food waste
As we discussed before, 40 percent of food in America gets wasted. To put things in perspective, a third of the food produced globally gets spoiled or squandered before it even reaches consumers, according to the FAO’s conservative estimates. It is a shocking fact that eliminating food waste Read More...
Will you join the compassion renaissance?
Matt Taylor’s passion is exploring the power of design to make compassion go further. He has found the perfect job: he is in charge of strategy and operations at IDEO.org, where he is unleashing the social sector's capacity to innovate through human-centered design. He recently gave a short, very Read More...
Sri Lanka to recruit women for the world's most ambitious mangrove protection project
Half of the world’s mangroves have been destroyed. They play a critical role, however, in mitigating climate change, as The Guardian explains. Hence the government-backed project to protect 21,782 acres in Sri Lanka through the involvement of women from 1,500 local communities. Micro-loans and Read More...
Could part-time work be the key to happiness?
Work-related stress is an epidemic linked to degrading public health in America. Not so much in the Netherlands, ranked the third happiest country on earth in this year’s World Happiness Report. Indeed, one of its secrets seems to be the widespread practice of the reduced-hour week. Working Read More...
Ecuador to break tree-planting record this Saturday
Ecuador’s latest public campaign aims for results in the ground. Over 350,000 tree seeds will be sowed Saturday by some 35,000 Ecuadoreans, breaking a Guinness World Record. It is about government’s commitment to—and citizens’ positive action for—the environment, said the Environment Read More...
How the sharing economy can boost the rooftop solar market
Nearly half of households are currently unable to host a solar photovoltaic system, according to the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. One major reason is that the rooftop solar market is closed to renters. Boston-based startup Yeloha intends to explore that untapped Read More...
Jump on your commuting bike and reduce your stress at work
Work-related stress is a scourge that spills out of the workplace and into the home. The good news is that it can be mitigated during the time it takes to go to work and back. According to a recent study, which confirms the findings of an 18-year long study published last year, commuting on foot Read More...