Trees are like love
What is the average time a tree takes to grow? A tree never stops growing, they grow every year, from being a baby tree into a 25 years old tree or 1000 years old tree. Adding each year another…
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Category Sustainability & Climate
Learn to Move Mountains: Design Thinking is an Essential Skill
Sustainability is of the utmost importance, and young people are gaining an understanding of that. Elaine France introduces us all to design thinking, and how it could change the world.
A Sustainable Approach to Personal Hygiene
What does it take to inspire more people to make the right decision to protect their health and our planet?
Learn to Move Mountains
Compassionate problem solvers experience flow in action through social innovation, resilience, hope and entrepreneurial skills Interview with Elaine France, Founder, Flow In Action “We are at climate tipping points that are calling on us to do things differently; to embrace…
Climate change: seeing the planet break down is depressing – here’s how to turn your pain into action
What if you’re concerned about the environment, but it seems too hard to make a life change? While actions that serve the climate and our communities may seem difficult before we try them, much of that perceived effort lies in the conservative inertia of our current habits, and how much we believe that we can change.
NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane
Agriculture contributes 48% of New Zealand’s total greenhouse gas emissions. This is an important issue not just for New Zealand and all agricultural nations, but for world food supply.
‘Revolutionary change’ needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
Michelle Lim, University of Adelaide We are witnessing the loss of biodiversity at rates never before seen in human history. Nearly a million species face extinction if we do not fundamentally change our relationship with the natural world, according to…
The world’s most degraded marine ecosystem could be about to make a comeback
Joanne Preston, University of Portsmouth When we think of mass habitat extinction, colourful, diverse and highly visible ecosystems such as tropical rain forests and coral reefs come to mind. Approximately half of global shallow water coral reefs and forests have…
Should we turn the Sahara Desert into a huge solar farm?
In the Sahara desert, each square metre receives, on average, between 2,000 and 3,000 kilowatt hours of solar energy per year, according to NASA estimates.
Extinction Rebellion: disruption and arrests can bring social change
Extinction Rebellion is keeping climate change at the forefront of the public and politicians’ lips, making the seemingly abstract problem facing all of us feel real.
Happy Index
Despite clear evidence that wellbeing's subjective measures are dependant on measurement of stress hormones and brain scans, subjective wellbeing to be the most more accurate reflection of how satisfied everyone is with life in general.