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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...
Amur tigers thrive again in Russia after nearing extinction
Good news from Russia is too rare an occurrence to ignore. Here is a successful conservation story, with Amur tigers thriving again in the Far East of the country at more than 540 individuals compared to less than 40 back in the 1940s — with a 28.5-percent population increase in the last decade Read More...
Global moonshot plan aims to make renewable energy cheaper than coal
UK scientists, economists and businessmen including Sir David King, currently the UK’s climate change envoy, Lord Nicholas Stern and ex-BP chief Lord John Browne launched a moonshot plan yesterday. The goal is to make the cost of clean electricity lower than that from coal-fired power stations Read More...
A warming blanket to save millions of newborn babies worldwide
Fifteen million hypothermic babies are born every year around the world, including three million who die during the first month of life. Embrace has developed a tiny sleeping bag with proprietary technology that stabilizes the temperature of the newborn for 1.5 percent of the cost of regular Read More...
The first black female astronaut on fear, self-confidence and belonging
Mae Jemison was the first woman of color to go into space. And that was but one of her many feats. What she has discovered and learned over the course of her career with regard to confronting her fears, growing her self-confidence and taking responsibility for creating community, can inspire every Read More...
How to be more productive while working less
Are you frequently working more than 40 hours a week? Are you frequently sleeping less than six hours a night? Do you typically feel guilty about any time away from work — even if that time is with family and friends? Then you may be one among many who, despite themselves, have become members of Read More...