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• Alex Steffen sees a sustainable future

  

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  Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity’s ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads to developing...
  
  Themes : Culture - Environment
  
  

• Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana

  

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  Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy — and about...
  
  Themes : Culture
  
  

• Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia

  

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  Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled ’a ragtag band of volunteers,’ gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online...
  
  Themes : Culture - Computer / Technology
  
  

• Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk

  

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  Cheryl Hayashi studies spider silk, one of nature’s most high-performance materials. Each species of spider can make up to 7 very different kinds of silk. How do they do it? Hayashi explains at...
  
  Themes : Environment - Goods and services - Health
  
  

• Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment

  

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  Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food (in her tiny apartment). So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles — researching, testing and tweaking the...
  
  Themes : Culture - Environment - Computer / Technology
  
  

• Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies

  

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  We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are...
  
  Themes : Culture - Solidarity - Health
  
  

• Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness

  

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  Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your...
  
  Themes : Culture
  
  

• Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic

  

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  Less than 10% of plastic trash is recycled — compared to almost 90% of metals — because of the massively complicated problem of finding and sorting the different kinds. Frustrated by this waste,...
  
  Themes : Environment - Goods and services
  
  

• John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers

  

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  In his home of Namibia, John Kasaona is working on an innovative way to protect endangered animal species: giving nearby villagers (including former poachers) responsibility for caring for the...
  
  Themes : Education - Environment - Solidarity
  
  

• Brian Skerry reveals ocean’s glory — and horror

  

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  Photographer Brian Skerry shoots life above and below the waves — as he puts it, both the horror and the magic of the ocean. Sharing amazing, intimate shots of undersea creatures, he shows how...
  
  Themes : Environment - Art
  
  

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