On January 6th 2021, Facebook and Twitter disabled US president Donald Trump’s accounts. Citing risk for further incitement of violence, Twitter permanently suspended the president’s account, while Facebook has disabled…
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first US city to mandate the placing of stickers on fuel pumps to warn drivers of the resulting dangers posed by the climate crisis. The…
Bookshop.org is an online bookshop that promotes and financially supports local, indie booksellers. It was set up as a socially conscious alternative to Amazon and is B-Corp certified. The organisation…
A website called “Not Amazon“, designed by a few passionate developers in Toronto, provides an alternative to Amazon by offering local Toronto-based options for shopping during COVID-19. It also allows…
On November 4, 2020 conservation leaders from around the world voted to embed behavior-centered approaches in conservation solutions. Participating electronically, members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World…
Around 52,000 people in the city of Maricá in suburban Rio de Janeiro will receive a monthly stipend of 130 reais (£24), just under the national poverty line, as part…
Engineering firms in Australia face mounting pressure from their own employees to abandon fossil fuel projects following declarations of climate and biodiversity emergency across the sector. One such project is Adani…
Singapore’s Ministry of Health announced a ban on adverts that promote drinks with a high sugar content. The ban is a world-first and is hoped to help tackle the country’s…
Mami Mizutori, the UN secretary-general’s special representative on disaster risk reduction, has warned that climate disasters are now happening at a higher frequency than ever before. Speaking with The Guardian,…
Deborah Frieze, co-founder of the Boston Impact Initiative is using a unique model, to help address economic inequality through equitable access to capital and opportunity. The Boston Impact Initiative Fund aims to…
The Malaysian parliament has approved a new legal amendment to lower the voting age to 18 on July 16, adding approximately 1.5 million young voters to the electoral roll. Malaysia…
According to American consulting firm AT Kearney, cultured meat and meat substitutes are on their way to “disrupt the multibillion-dollar global meat industry”. The study says that the world’s total ‘meat’ consumption…
