New Zealand’s parliament has unanimously passed the Equal Pay Amendment Bill that ensures that women in historically underpaid female-dominated industries receive the same remuneration as men in different but equal-value work.
U.S. FCC approves three-digit suicide prevention hotline – 988
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved the 9-8-8 suicide prevention hotline. Within 18 months, all Americans will be able to call this number to seek help if they are at risk of suicide.
“Modern” humans
For millennia, humans have had capabilities and capacities that proto-humans could never have imagined. These are the very traits that have propelled humanity into its dominant position in the world today.
Atlassian to build world’s largest hybrid timber tower in Sydney
The 40-story building will feature a steel exoskeleton complemented by Mass Timber Construction (MTC). The new features will cut daily energy consumption and the carbon embodied in its construction by 50%.
Stop expecting a just world
The world isn’t supposed to be anything. It is what it is.
Renewables pass fossil fuels as European Union’s biggest source of electricity
Ultimately, this significant shift in electricity generation caused a 23% drop in carbon dioxide emissions, a critical step forward in the fight against climate change.
Proto-humans
proto-humans had many features and behaviors that would be very familiar to all us. But they did not yet have whatever makes us humans human.
Ocean Voyages Institute completes the largest open ocean clean-up in history
In late June 2020, the Ocean Voyages Institute’s SV/KWAI returned from a 48-day journey to recover plastic waste from the North Pacific Gyre. It’s 103 ton haul of fishing nets and consumer plastics has made their voyage that largest ever ocean plastic cleanup, having more than doubled the Institute’s 2019 haul.
How waging the war of art can help us overcome resistance and live our purpose
The War of Art is the internal war we all must wage to overcome “resistance” and to step into what we are here to do – whether it’s writing a book, starting a meditation practice, running for office, starting a business, or something else.
A groundbreaking new coalition will use AI to track the entire world’s carbon emissions in real time
Only a few short years ago, such a system would have been deemed utterly preposterous and inconceivable. Now, as soon as next year, it could be a reality.
