Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Amin Al-Habaibeh
Whenever I visit the Sahara I am struck by how sunny and hot it is and how clear the sky can be.
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- Written by: Chris Hawes
According to a recent major UN report, if we are to limit temperature rise to 1.5 °C and prevent the most catastrophic effects of climate change, we need to reduce global CO? emissions to net zero by 2050.
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- Written by: Keith Harary
You might find your car dying on the freeway while other vehicles around you lose control and crash.
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- Written by: Matthew Carl Ives, et al
Search online for “climate change” and “tipping points” and you’ll find some scary results.
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- Written by: Michelle Bloor
The school climate strikes show that young people want to fight climate change, but their enthusiasm for collective action is largely untapped.
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- Written by: Michaela Haas
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient. The way to stop climate change might be buried in 300 square feet of earth in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, amid kale and potatoes.
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- Written by: Sarah Shemkus
Massachusetts is leading the charge in dual-use solar installations, making it possible to grow some crops and pasture animals while generating clean energy.
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
I spend many hours working on my computer while sitting in front of sliding glass doors so as to be part of nature.
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- Written by: Dr Iain Staffell
Rapid progress towards clean energy is needed to meet the global ambition to limit warming to no more than 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures.
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- Written by: Rob Bellamy and Matthew Watson
2018 has been a year of unprecedented weather extremes around the world.
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- Written by: Bianca Nogrady
As the price of renewable energy drops and storage technologies mature, hydrogen fuel is drawing fresh attention. Perhaps, finally, hydrogen’s moment has arrived. Japan is planning to use the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games to showcase its vision for a hydrogen society and has invested US$348 million in establishing hydrogen refueling stations and other infrastructure. Germany has launched the world’s first hydrogen-powered trains...
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- Written by: Juliette N. Rooney-Varga
The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been called a “deafening” alarm and an “ear-splitting wake-up call” about the need for sweeping climate action. But will one more scientific report move countries to dramatically cut emissions?
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- Written by: William Moomaw, Gillian Davies, and Max Finlayson
“Drain the swamp” has long meant getting rid of something distasteful. Actually, the world needs more swamps – and bogs, fens, marshes and other types of wetlands.
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- Written by: Zeke Hausfather, Carbon Brief
In the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, nearly every country on Earth pledged to keeping global temperatures “well below” 2C above pre-industrial levels and to “pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase even further to 1.5C”.
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- Written by: Jeff Mulhollem-Penn State
Agroforestry could play an important role in mitigating climate change because it sequesters more atmospheric carbon in plant parts and soil than conventional farming, report researchers.
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- Written by: Simon Evans, Carbon Brief
For the first time, the European Union generated more electricity from wind, solar and biomass than from coal in 2017, according to new analysis from two thinktanks.
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- Written by: ustin Fitzgerald-University of Missouri
Forest owners at greater risk of illegally cutting trees on their land prefer to join conservation programs that allow sustainable timber harvesting, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Richard Heinberg, Ensia
In tumultuous times, art can and must express the turmoil and help us process what’s going on.
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- Written by: National University of Singapore
A new water-based air-conditioning system cools air to as low as 18 degrees Celsius (about 64 degrees Fahrenheit) without using energy-intensive compressors and environmentally harmful chemical refrigerants.
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- Written by: Olga Mecking, YES! Magazine
Recently, National Geographic published an article called “This Tiny Country Feeds the World,” where the author extolled the innovations of a small European country that has managed to become a global powerhouse in agriculture and technology—the Netherlands.
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- Written by: Danielle Torrent Tucker-Stanford University
A program of one of the five largest supermarket chains in South Africa, drove increased adoption of environmental practices at the farm level, a new study of the store’s supply chain indicates.
