A thoughtfully curated collection of articles on innovative solutions, brought together to inspire and inform.
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Helsinki marks a year without traffic deaths, thanks to slower speeds and smarter streets | The Optimist Daily
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Heat pumps can help clean up factories — and save lives
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How to listen like a therapist with four ways to build deeper connection and trust | The Optimist Daily
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Dublin expands car-free zones to improve bus travel and city life | The Optimist Daily
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Beyond the Grid: 3 U.S. Cities Reinventing Renewable Energy from the Ground Up
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College Was Once Free and For the Public Good—What Happened? by Thomas Adam — YES! Magazine
Students didn’t have to worry about tuition and debt until higher education became more about personal gain than contributing to…
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Watch “An Inconvenient Sequel” This Weekend—But Then Do This
Actions to take after you see Al Gore’s new documentary.
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Meet the New Wall: Same as the Old Wall
The Trump administration’s border security promises sound an awful lot like what we’ve heard before: Money thrown at contractors on…
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Trump’s Base of Support Is Collapsing
The president never had a proper mandate, but the resistance is no longer a voice of opposition. It now speaks for the great American…
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Cut Your Carbon at Home
Energy efficiency refers to ways of improving products or systems so that they require less energy to do the same…
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VA city most affected by mercury pollution from Rayon production feels slighted in settlement
Mercury Pollution from Rayon Fabric Production at Dupont
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Sustainable Clothes
When you shop for new clothes, a number of factors can affect the social and environmental impacts of your purchases.
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Finally, some good news for the climate: Global carbon emissions stayed flat in 2016 – The Washington Post
The United States and China are burning less coal, and as a result, economies are growing without further worsening the…
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Carbon in Atmosphere Is Rising, Even as Emissions Stabilize – The New York Times
Scientists are concerned over the cause of the rapid rise, which may indicate the world’s natural sponges that absorb carbon…
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Are we having an effect slowing population growth?
Global population is still growing by 83 million people per year. BUT, since our founding in 1968, the rate of…