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How to make sure your personal values are reflected in your day-to-day actions

sudshr47 November 8, 2018

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Many of us, especially millennials, are conscientious consumers – trying to keep an eye on how our actions affect the planet and those around us. There has been a consistent cultural trend towards sustainability, and that trend is here to stay. 

In a recent Millennial Pulse report by Shelton Group, they discovered when millennials trust a company’s social and environmental practices a staggering 90 percent say they’ll buy from that brand, and 95 percent say they’ll recommend the products to their friends and family – largely via social media. Considering millennials spend $600 billion per year, according to a recent Accenture report, those numbers have a massive significance for brands – and, optimistically, a big impact for the environment.  Read more…

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Collins Dictionary’s word of the year has an environmentally conscious theme

sudshr47 November 7, 2018

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Though they be little in size, words are fiercely powerful. Combined with a hashtag, they can rally a global movement like #MeToo. And, words can sum up a shift in social attitudes. 

Collins Dictionary’s word of the year does precisely that — it encompasses a shift in society’s attitude towards plastic. That word is “single-use”. 

So, what precisely do we mean when we say “single-use”? Per a blogpost, Collins defines the term as describing “products – often plastic – that are ‘made to be used once only’ before disposal.” Read more…

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Supreme Court says these young climate activists can sue the federal government

sudshr47 November 4, 2018

The young people have prevailed. 
After a back-and-forth battle with the Trump administration, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday that a group of 21 11- to 22-year-old climate change activists can sue the government for harming their futures …

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Young scientists develop enviro-friendly bricks made out of urine

sudshr47 October 27, 2018

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Scientists still haven’t developed a cure for the common cold, but who cares? The young scientists of the world are focusing their attention on what matters most: bricks made out of piss.

A group of South African students recently developed a brick made out of human urine. It’s a radical breakthrough for those of us long accustomed to clay, concrete, and metaphorical sh*t bricks.

They call them “bio-bricks.”

“In this example you take something that is considered a waste and make multiple products from it. You can use the same process for any waste stream. It’s about rethinking things,” Dr. Dyllon Randall, who supervised the student’s project at the University of Cape Town, told The Guardian. Read more…

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Global partnerships and human rights take center stage at this year’s Social Good Summit

sudshr47 October 23, 2018

Social good has never been more important, and necessary, as it is today. 
The Social Good Summit held on Sept. 23 marked the 9 year anniversary of the conference which looks at how the intersection of technology and new media has redefined our …

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Vibrating slab of Antarctic ice sounds like a horror movie

sudshr47 October 16, 2018

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In the faraway realms at the bottom of the Earth, Antarctic scientists have unexpectedly recorded bizarre drone-like sounds.

After burying 34 seismic monitors in the snow atop the Ross Ice Shelf in 2014 — which is a massive Texas-sized slab of ice that floats over the Southern Ocean — the instruments picked up near-constant “buzzing” noises. 

While normally inaudible to the human ear, the researchers have made these ultra-low frequencies detectable to our limited hearing range. They posted the eerie sounds online, along with a Geophysical Research Letters report on their greater research.

“If this vibration were audible, it would be analogous to the buzz produced by thousands of cicada bugs when they overrun the tree canopy and grasses in late summer,” Douglas MacAyeal, a glaciologist at the University of Chicago who had no role in the research, wrote in a commentary. Read more…

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Videos from Hurricane Michael show its stunning strength

sudshr47 October 10, 2018

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Hurricane Michael, which made land Category 4 storm but has since dropped to a Category 3, continues to ravage Florida. Partially submerged cars and palm trees float through flooded coastal areas, and torrential rain and wind makes seeing anything nearly impossible. 

Here’s what the storm looks like up close:

HURRICANE DESTRUCTION: Hurricane Michael is tearing through Panama City Beach, Florida. Ripping away roofs, flooding condos and throwing debris everywherepic.twitter.com/7tuHkPGIvI

— ABC 13 News – WSET (@ABC13News) October 10, 2018

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High-tech paint could cool cities around the world

sudshr47 September 28, 2018

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Cities like Los Angeles, New York, London, Madrid, and Paris have all acknowledged the bubble-like hotter temperatures within their cities, known widely as the Urban Heat Island effect. 

Though some cities have tried a couple of different ways to combat the heat — like Madrid’s car-less day or New York’s movement to paint rooftops white — the higher temperatures still remain. 

Now a team of researchers at Columbia University thinks they’ve found a new solution in the form of a high-tech paint.

The scientists created a substance that works like a paint but is actually a polymer coating that reflects both sunlight and radiating heat into the atmosphere. The polymer should help cool not only buildings coated with it but surrounding areas as well, according to a study published in the journal Science.  Read more…

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