In New York, Bikes Have Totally Victory Over the Car
NYC Streets Metamorphosis from STREETFILMS on Vimeo. New York City might be famous for its cabs, but in the future it might be famous for its bikes. The city has…
Adam Clare
Shower Once a Week
In the developed world people tend to use more water than they should, in fact water consumption in many nations have done irreparable damage. Canadians are really bad at water…
Ontario to Test Basic Income
Basic income is the idea that people will have enough money to live (food and shelter) regardless of their employment status. Manitoba tried this decades ago and it worked, but…
India’s Solar Energy Plan a Shining Success
India consumes a lot energy and consumption keeps growing as their economy expands. They also rely heavily on coal. The government knows that their current form of energy production causes…
The Century of the Car Was a Mistake, Let’s Move on
North America was built around the car instead of people and that was mistake that needs to be acknowledged. In some places it is. The insane support the automobile gets…
A Plan for a Zero Waste Toronto
The Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) has released a new report on how to get Toronto to be a zero waste city. The report covers a lot of material from food…
Healthy People Don’t Diet, They Listen
Diet fads come and go, but there is one diet that will always work: listen to your body. If you feel like you’ve had enough then stop eating, and if…
What’s That? Use Your Phone to Identify Plants
Pl@ntNet is an app that can identify plants using the camera on your mobile. Presently, it’s limited primarily to Western Europe (since it was in France),Indian Ocean, and parts of…
Rain Gardens to Feature in Canada Blooms Competition
Canada Blooms is a competition to demonstrate one’s ability to display flowers. In the past it was based on the look of the arrangement done in a garden, now they…
To Save Bees, Humans Need to Learn From the Past
Bees are having a hard time in the 21st century everything from radio waves to pesticides are messing with their honey creation. The poor creatures are also suffering from a…
Be Conscious How Social Media Impacts Your Mental Health
Last year a study was released that identified Facebook as a contributor to people’s depression, it’s likely that other forms of social media do the same. Researchers are finding that…
Abstinence Only Sex Education Loses Funding in the USA
President Obama has cut funding for abstinence only sex education in the 2017 federal budget. The lack of adequate sex education has led to health crises and too many unwanted…
The Future of Hospitals Will be Robotic
We like to think that people who work at hospitals do everything they can to save patients – and they do. The problem is that humans make mistakes. In fact,…
A Way to Think About Digital Currency Replacing Cash
Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and other digital currencies are shaking up how the internet thinks about money. In turn, this has forced countries and large institutions to rethink how money works and…
It’s Not Environment Versus Economic Prosperity
Amazingly, there are people who think that environmental protection will cause economic calamity (bankers seem to be good at causing economic collapse all on their own). This old way of…
A Tiny, Efficient, Affordable, and Inexpensive House
It’s often argued that providing homes to people will alleviate poverty, the problem is that homes are insanely expensive. Many attempts at making cheap house have happened but most meet…
Pub Proximity Produces Pleasure
How close you live to a pub impacts your happiness, the closer you are the happier you’ll be! Oxford University and the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) released the study…
France Installing 100km of Solar Roads
France has announced that they are going to try a mass installation of solar-panelled roads to provide electricity. It’s an attempt to see if they technology can be scalable and…
Using Ketamine to Treat Severe Depression
Depression affects a lot of people and research into dealing with depression has taken on a lot of forms over the years. Recently there has been growing use of “party…
The Unstoppable Renewable Revolution
For years naysayers have been arguing that renewable energy isn’t a good idea because the electrical input fluctuates too much on the grid. Now we have more evidence that those…