Tag: Insights
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Wash U Sit-In Enters Historic 3rd Week: Peabody Moment of Truth Arrives
In an emerging public relations nightmare for Washington University officials, the sit-in against Peabody Energy…
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Doing Nothing Isn’t an Option: How to Avoid the Worst of Climate Change
It’s fitting that the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report was released during Earth Month. After all, the third chapter of its Fifth Assessment focuses on ways to keep our planet healthy and livable by warding off extreme climatic shifts and weather events caused by escalating atmospheric carbon. Doing so will require substantially…
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3 Trends That Will Revolutionize How We Use Products
Imagine this. You are in a not so distant future. From where you are sitting on your couch, your life looks the same. But at a closer look, things have changed a bit. First of all, the couch is not exactly yours. You rent it from a furniture company until you’re ready for an update.…
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Riding Together Against Keystone XL
To politicians in Washington, the Keystone XL pipeline is an abstraction: just another political football to hurl back and forth across partisan lines. But along the pipeline’s proposed route, Keystone XL is a clear and present danger, threatening a people’s traditional way of life—not to mention the health and safety of their communities. [caption id=”attachment_331504″…
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5 Gyres of Plastic Trash Pollutes the World’s Oceans
It’s the silver lining of a tragedy when it takes a plane crash and the death of all its passengers to bring attention to an environmental catastrophe unfolding on a different time scale. 5 Gyres Institute has traveled 40,000 miles through all 5 gyres, including the Indian Ocean gyre, to discover each one contains a…