Category: Less of What We Don’t Need

For a CEO, work is often a seamless blend of decision-making, networking, and strategising—activities that can happen anywhere, from the back of a car to a five-star hotel. For their employees, however, work is defined by rigid hours, physical presence, and often mundane, repetitive tasks. While a boss may count a coffee meeting as part…

Glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, may significantly raise the risk of an increasingly common chronic liver disease—even at low exposure levels, according to a new review of more than 40 scientific studies published over the past 17 years. It found a growing body of research links exposure to glyphosate (GLY)—and the commercial herbicides…

The Food And Drug Administration has laid off more than 140 employees including veterinarians, some of who work on tackling antimicrobial resistance. Efforts to curb the use of antimicrobials in farm animals and stem resistance to crucial antimicrobial medicines are at risk after layoffs at the United States Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary…

A larger question, for building an ecological civilization is: “Do we want the future of the Earth to be simply sustainable or genuinely flourishing?”

Blocking the internet on your smartphone for just two weeks can lead to better mood and mental health—and may significantly improve your attention span, even making you feel as if you’re 10 years younger, new research suggests. Those effects continue even after internet access is restored.

Chemicals found in common food packaging plastics like cling film and snack pouches may interfere with the body’s natural 24-hour sleep-wake cycle, increasing the risk of sleep disorders, diabetes, immune problems, and even cancer, new research shows. Published this month in Environment International, the study from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology is the…

Rural communities depend on strong connections between neighbors, local businesses, nonprofits and local government. Public schools are the glue that holds these connections together. However, instead of investing in our students’ futures by fully and fairly funding the public schools that more than 90% of rural students attend, a national movement to privatize education through…

Convincing rural voters to walk away from public schools could be a greater obstacle than expected for the GOP. Traditional voucher programs allow parents to spend public funds on private schooling. Education savings accounts, meanwhile, function more like an education debit card loaded with tax dollars, which parents can use on a variety of education-related…

In the 19th century, Britain used more wood annually just to shore up the shafts of coal mines than the British economy consumed as fuel during the 18th century….Without wood, there would be no coal, and therefore no steel and no railways either. So different energy sources, materials and technologies are highly interdependent and everything…