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Healthy food and schools
It’s the age-old dilemma. We want our kids to eat healthy food at school but they don’t like it so we accept them eating greasy fast food “because they have to eat something, right?” Wrong. With the schools’ help, we can impact the diet or our children for the better and in much easier ways... »
Vac from the sea
Electrolux is starting a bold new environmental awareness program that will be used to produce a number of concept vacuum cleaners. What they are about to do is to collect plastic from a number of marine habitats around the world that they then sort, clean and recycle into their new vacuums. They are doing this for... »
Are vegetarians happier?
Since vegetarians are missing out on certain forms of omega-acids that can only be gotten from fish and these omega acids are considered to be a significant factor in physical and mental health, nutritional researchers expected vegetarians to be less happy on average than a meat-eater. Rodale reports on research done on 138 Seventh Day... »
Frugality and happiness
Being frugal means to avoid wasting money and resources and being economically thrifty. Generally when we think about frugal people we picture people that are unhappily denying themselves all the pleasures of live to stretch every single penny. But how true is this myth? According to the Canadian Finance Blog, not true at all. Frugal livers... »
Does exercise help you get higher grades?
The American College of Sports Medicine did a study on whether vigorous exercise helps students get higher grades. In their study they took into account things like gender, study time, participation in college sports and even field of study. If they wouldn’t have done this, their results would have just shown that some people exercise and have... »
The success of One Laptop Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project aims at getting a specially designed laptop to every single child in the world’s poorest areas. The laptops are designed with children in mind, durable and rugged and can be read in direct sunlight, for those children that take school outdoors. It has wireless capability and is the... »
“Brain Bacteria” in the soil?
A recent study shows that as little as 5 minutes in a natural park can raise our moods and sense of well-being. But it seems it could to more than that. Microbiologists have found that when we spend time in a leafy park we breathe soil bacteria called mycobacterium vaccae. Through experiments on mice the... »
Room to Read builds it’s 10′000th library
An astonishing achievement in merely a decade, the non-profit Room to Read has now built 10′000 children-oriented libraries in the developing world. The founder John Wood set it up to act on his belief that real world change begins with educated children. The non-profit builds libraries and offers educational programs from Nepal to India to South Africa... »
UNWRA educated Palestinian girls win international science prize
UNWRA or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency offers education programs in Palestinian refugee camps. Three Palestinian girls educated there have just made history by winning a top spot in an international science fair in Silicon Valley. Only 14-years old, they designed a walking cane for the blind that beeps when it detects bumps... »
Transforming communities with positive role models
David Lewis was a repeat convict. He has spent a total of 17 years in the prison system in his home of East Palo Alto, California. Dyslexic, he dropped out of school and starting abusing substances, engaging in street violence and robbing drugdealers. He liked being the kid with no future. First imprisoned at 18 years... »
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