Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Born into a noble family that ruled Transylvania in 1560, Báthory had many female servants and hosted quite a few noblewomen during her 54 years of life—many of which she murdered. The servants who came forward with the evidence weren’t so lucky, however, as three of them were executed and another was imprisoned for life.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 22, 2023

Although this issue impacts everyone, discussions often overlook the experiences and perspectives of marginalized communities. That’s why it’s critical that we examine eco-anxiety through an intersectional lens. These trailblazers play a role in raising environmental awareness on their college campuses.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 24, 2020

2020 was certainly one for the history books. While a large portion of Americans adjusted to life working remotely and others faced economic struggles due to the pandemic, tiny homes and inventive office spaces have never been so relevant. Read on to learn more about the top seven tiny homes we’ve seen this year here at Inhabitat.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 25, 2020

That relatively routine journey has now entered the record books: the earliest date a cargo ship took what’s usually an ice-blocked route. Summary - Freaked out scientists and gleeful captains of fossil-fuel tankers are now sailing through climate history in the melting polar region. This article is taken from Bloomberg.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

I just signed up to spend the next five years of my life working on this,” Dietschler says, looking at the cooler. “I I just signed up to spend the next five years of my life working on this,” Dietschler says, looking at the cooler. The evergreen is not looking good. Its lower branches are brittle and dead. They’re alive.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Meet the entrepreneur helping farmers capture carbon and increase crop yields - with rocks. Mary Yap has always been a stargazer. As a child growing up in the Seattle area, she would regularly sneak out of her room late at night, plant herself on the bathroom floor and stare up at the stars through the skylight, filled with wonder.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Firefighters were not looking at houses to be saved, but as units of time to measure the fire by,” said John Vaillant, a journalist and author of the book Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World. The book, however, is not just a chronology of the Fort McMurray fire. It helps the ecosystem stay healthy.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The huge round structure features seven columns (one broken, to represent life cut short) with a limestone table surrounded by six stone and concrete chairs. As I pick my way between the crazily-shaped logs, to the water of South Beach on San Juan Island, it’s a driftwood lover’s dream come true.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 26, 2020

Life was good in those days. I argued for a Universal Basic Income and ‘rethinking the way we think’ about work and purpose in life. The idealization of work We are not Machines Can we honestly state that we - as a society - have focused on the right things in life for the past ten, twenty or maybe even thirty years?

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. When the sky’s grown dark we stop hiking and set up camp behind the dunes. There is no marked trail leading north from the town of Broome, Australia. There is only the beach, deep red and wide as a highway.

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

This is part of a series of interviews that will accompany a book I’m writing about building a new kind of economy, that will be published by Chelsea Green – an employee-owned company, and part of the new economy that the book is describing, built around a mutual credit core. Is that right? It was in 2008.

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