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Churches go green
Churches are hardly known as leaders of change, but even that perspective may become outdated. The World Council of Churches (WCC)—the governing body that represents 345 member churches in over 100 countries—added fossil fuels to the list of morally objectionable industries it no longer Read More...
Flying is better for the environment than driving
Recently a row broke out over the international program director working for Greenpeace in Amsterdam who several times a month flew to visit his family in Luxembourg. After the issue was raised in the media Greenpeace issued a statement saying that the director would take the train from now on. The Read More...
In praise of doing (kind of) nothing
More and more people are finding that the Internet enables them to escape the rat race and organize their lives according to their own desires and priorities. Journalist Gerhard Hormann goes even further and thinks we should spend more time doing nothing. Well, not really nothing. His ideal life Read More...
‘Doing nothing can mean a lot’
Gerhard Hormann thinks we should spend more time doing nothing. In The New Doing Nothing (Het Nieuwe Nietsdoen) available only in Dutch for now, the journalist writes of a growing need for more free time. His ideal life consists of a simple house, on a lake, with a record player and a vegetable Read More...
Exposing slavery becomes easier, bringing elimination closer
A lot of stuff we use on a daily basis is still far too often made under highly questionable labor circumstances. But the Internet can help to create more transparency and that will bring about the elimination of forced labor. Made in a Free World, a group of anti–slavery advocates, has Read More...
Gardening helps dementia patients recall memories
Findings compiled from 17 different pieces of research and published in the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association has found that outdoor spaces can help improve the memory for those suffering from dementia. Being outside is welcoming, a conduit for conversation, and can actually Read More...
Grocery store in U.K. is first to publish Seafood Sustainability Reports
Transparency is a magic word when it comes to progress and positive change. The British grocery chain Asda is the first major supermarket to publish a Seafood Sustainability Report. The report, called the Wild Fisheries Annual Review, looks at all fisheries the grocery store has done business with Read More...
Scientists advocate for more research on consciousness
Consciousness has been a domain that science so far hasn’t really dared to enter. It’s part of the realm of religion and philosophy. We know we are conscious. But how does that work? And what does it mean? More and more research in physics points to interconnection between the smallest Read More...
New Internet startup offers connectivity as a human right—for free
If we were to write a new Universal Declaration of Human Rights today, would we add something about Internet access while defining the freedom of speech? The Internet has become an information vein that one can hardly live without in a fast globalizing world society. That’s why Kosta Grammatis Read More...
Friends Have More DNA in Common Than Strangers
People choose friends that they share more DNA with. Researchers at Yale University conducted a study that looked at 2,000 individuals and found that friends have more gene variations in common than strangers. The study concluded that friends have the same number of gene variations as a 4th cousin, Read More...