Celebrating public health successes
As former US president Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care in his home in Plains, Georgia, there have been many stories about his post-presidency achievements, including his work on…
The poop on Everest – and how to clean it up
I was reading a story from Vermont about a company that is reinventing PortaPotties to produce organic material for farmers, when it turned into a gateway into learning about…
Solar sheep are born weed-whackers….
The world needs more sheep, says Janna Greir of Whispering Cedars Ranch, which is located just east of Strathmore, Alberta. That’s in part because it turns out that sheep…
Stopping the plastic before it gets to the ocean
Baltimore’s ‘Trash Family’, Ocean Cleanup’s ‘Interceptors’, and Amsterdam’s ‘great bubble barrier’ are all ways to cut the amount of plastic trash flowing into the world’s oceans, developed by people who…
Vehicles are moving far beyond driving….
One story stuck in my mind when I read ReThinkX’s predictions of the future. It was about how the people who made and operated horse drawn carriages in the US did not – at least…
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How Canada led the way in private refugee sponsorship
The United States has just launched a private sponsorship program that will enable Americans to sponsor refugees arriving through the US Refugee Admissions Program, directly supporting their resettlement in the USA. This is a new…
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Stories from the ‘Kitchen Front’
There is a powerful moment near the end of Marilyn Waring’s wonderful TED talk in which she eviscerates the GDP as the only way to measure our economy. People often ask why she doesn’t develop…
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Solar farms on landfills and the ocean….
Solar panels and farms are branching out in unexpected ways, and in the process, helping solve one of the earlier criticisms of solar farms – they take up land that could be used for things…
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