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Today I’m answering the global call for a #cleanenergy future by taking action w. Rocky Mountain Institute—will you? http://thndr.me/wQdRGz

I watched with silent fascination at the man sitting in front of me, with one hand grasping a cup handle and another, a timer. Making a good tea takes a certain amount of time, Anthony Loberto of T...

This captures much of the deliciousness and delight of my favourite coffee from Brisbane’s finest purveyor.

#coffee #brisbane #beansmith

It’s easy for work, family and life to just take over. On World Health Day we want you to stay healthy and stay connected....

Word to the wise: "Catch yourself every time you're systematically mis-predicting who can and who can't do what among your children. We mis-predict among race, gender, socio-economic status, and standardized test. It's not democratic and it's not moving us forward," says Larry Rosenstock, co-founder of High Tech High.

This brain fitness advice from the top leaders in the field can easily be done today, on your own, without making drastic changes, or spending money.

A six-part series in which James Gardner traces a personal path through the evolving world of electronic music.

#soil #permaculture #land degradation #agriculture #erosion

#permaculture #gardening #agriculture #sustainability #water #conservation #food

In 2015, the Fun Palaces weekend is 3rd and 4th October. The Fun Palaces Manifesto We believe in the genius in everyone, in everyone an artist and everyone a scientist, and that arts and sciences can change the world for the better. We believe we can do this together, locally, with radical fun – and …

The anger generated by Wednesday's Senate committee hearings into corporate tax avoidance makes the government taxation and political troubles that much harder.

THE predictions sounded like promises: in the future, working hours would be short and vacations long. “Our grandchildren”, reckoned John Maynard Keynes in 1930,...

Earthships are 100% sustainable homes that are both cheap to build and awesome to live in. They offer amenities like no other sustainable…

An eye-rolly name, perhaps, but some great design.

After being pelted with meteorites for half-a-billion years, life began to appear on Earth. The miraculous leap happened around four billion years ago, when the atmosphere was blanketed with lethal gases, and the ocean was thick with iron. How did life form in these conditions and why didn’t it appear anywhere else nearby?

David Cameron, like most politicians, has fallen for a fallacy that ignores the fact that children have to want to learn

The idea that we were each born for some higher purpose and it’s now our cosmic mission to find it. This is the same kind of crappy logic used to justify things like spirit crystals or that your lucky number is 34 (but only on Tuesdays or during full moons).

Here’s the truth. We exist on this earth for some undetermined period of time. During that time we do things. Some of these things are important. Some of them are unimportant. And those important things give our lives meaning and happiness. The unimportant ones basically just kill time.

So when people say, “What should I do with my life?” or “What is my life purpose?” what they’re actually asking is: “What can I do with my time that is important?”

Originally posted here: http://qz.com/330661/questions-that-will-help-you-find-your-purpose-in-life/

Most people think it is hard to put a dollar value on a human life, but they’re wrong. It’s easy. Economists do it all the time. Most people think that all human lives are equally valuable. And most think economic modelling is boring, irrelevant to their busy lives, and unrelated to how our democracy is functioning. They’re wrong about those, too. About ten years ago, a lawyer rang to ask if I would do some (economic) modelling. “It depends,” I said. “What’s the job?”

Given the management of the federal budget has become so mired in politics, maybe it's time to subcontract the central issue of structural fiscal balance to some independent statutory authority.

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