Big Smile, No Teeth: When you don’t know if to laugh or cry over the news
Keeping up on current events this week has me searching for how to deal with negative news cycles. Two mass shootings in the United States that highlight illogically weak gun laws and also a growing...
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Curious Cook: Facing up to climate change
There is a little book on climate change that everyone should read. It is only 60-odd pages, written by a young Swedish lady called Greta Thunberg and in it, she questions why our societies are...
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Do you have what it takes to join the world’s toughest run in Bhutan?
Somewhere between myth and magnificence, the alpine quest known as the Snowman Run will take elite runners from across the world through Bhutan’s pristine yet unforgiving landscapes above the treeline....
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Human Writes: A vegan diet is better for you and the planet
When Jeremy Loo was 42 years old, he was forced to face his lifestyle choices when he was diagnosed with stomach cancer, severe hypertension and very high cholesterol. The investment banker had for...
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Big Smile, No Teeth: As the Amazon burns, world leaders move urgently to …...
When the G7 countries met recently in Paris, they discussed the big issue on everyone’s minds: the ongoing burning of the Amazon rainforest in a series of devasting fires. Naturally, you’d hope some...
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Finnish what you start: Sort out your rubbish before dumping it
Like most people in Finland, Mikko Tanner has four different rubbish bins in the small kitchen of his apartment in Etela-Haaga, a small suburb near the Nordic country’s capital of Helsinki. But it’s...
View ArticleWhy not have a plastic tax? Just tax the people using plastic bags
Will imposing a tax on plastic help to reduce its consumption, and ultimately – hopefully – solve much of the world’s problem with plastics waste? That’s a possibility that the Finnish government wants...
View ArticleNY’s Central Park interactive art installation promotes climate awareness
A public art installation in New York’s Central Park is inviting thousands to contribute a blue brush stroke to a massive canvas, art symbolic of the breaths shared by humanity that aims to heighten...
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Beautiful Stripes: Stop bashing the kids taking charge of climate change
October is my favourite month as leaves change colour and mark the start of autumn. Except that we don’t get autumn here, only clear blue skies, which is wonderful, considering how it was a couple of...
View ArticleHuman Writes: Time for Malaysians to raise heat on the climate crisis
A shocking video went viral on social media recently, showing a sky drenched in a dark blood-red hue in the middle of the day. This ominous, apocalyptic-looking scene was taken in the Jambi province of...
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