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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We Will Soon Be Using More Than The Earth Can Provide by David Korten — YES! Magazine
Forget the GDP, it’s time for our leaders to pay attention to metrics that matter.
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Morphing Mushroom Identifier
An interactive mushroom key that models your fungus on screen as you enter the characters.
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Telling The Good Mushrooms From The Killers | Jefferson Public Radio
If you are at all into eating mushrooms, can you tell the yummy from the deadly? Identifying mushrooms can be…
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Ten things to do to help honeybees | Environment | The Guardian
Dr Ivor Davis, master beekeeper and past president of the British Beekeepers’ Association, suggests 10 things you can do to…
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Widely Used Pesticide Is a Buzzkill for Honeybees
Findings add fuel to the debate over whether a commonly used chemical damages insect populations
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The Earth Is Flat? Check Wikipedia | Jefferson Public Radio
Fake news has been, well, in the news a lot lately. It seems no claim is too absurd to be…
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Privacy Comes Full Circle | Jefferson Public Radio
You want to have privacy online? Then get offline. Don’t want Google, Facebook, the government, or Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon…
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After Coal, a Small Kentucky Town Builds a Healthier, More Creative Economy by Peter Slavin — YES! Magazine
A complex network of local organizations helps neighbors support one another as they rebound from a dying industry.
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Coal Production Plummets to Lowest Level in 35 Years
Coal was once the dominant source of the nation’s electricity generation, but consumption of the fossil fuel has declined by…