HAVE YOU LOOKED OUT OF YOUR WINDOW LATELY? We are living in a sequin-encrusted virtual prison where an economic elite can hog along in plump luxury – destroying the planet as they go. We must stop this. Our initial targets are corporate tax evaders, environmental desecraters…
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23 Oct / One stitch closer to independence
This organization employs a group of homeless women to produce coats for those living on the streets. These coats transform into sleeping bags at night, allowing the homeless to sleep more comfortably. You can learn more about The Empowerment Plan HERE
With the 80-piece BBC Concert Orchestra at its heart and 27 ridiculously talented musicians from a wide range of genres, this “impossible orchestra” represents the talent, diversity and musical passion found every single day throughout the BBC. Find out who’s part of the performance HERE
Danish World Champion freediver, Stig Åvall Severinsen, achieved a new Guinness World Record when he accomplished ‘the longest dive under ice’, on a single breath of air.
Now is the time to take action on behalf of our health, our planet and our future, here in Santa Barbara County. We must pass Measure P in order to ban fracking and other oil extraction techniques looming on the horizon. One company alone wants…
Dear Santa Barbara Community, Please join me in protecting our home and the health of all residents in Santa Barbara County. Every local environmental organization is rallying TOGETHER for the first time due to the UTMOST importance of voting “YES ON MEASURE P”. “P” is…
Irish high school student Émer Hickey was gardening with her mom when she observed wartlike nodules on a pea plant. She later learned that the swellings contained something that could cut back our dependence on chemical fertilizers and mitigate world hunger: bacteria. But not just…
26 year old poet Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, from the Marshall Islands, addressed the Opening Ceremony of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit. Kathy was selected from among over 500 civil society candidates in an open, global nomination process conducted by the UN Non-Governmental Liaison Service. Kathy performed…
07 Oct / Germany grants free education to all, including a university diploma, and an equal shot at life
All German universities will offer free higher education starting this week, after the region of Lower Saxony changed its policies to fit with the rest of the country. German policy-makers say that free university education for all is a basic right, and that tuition fees…
For Felix Starck, what began as a jokingly-announced idea – biking the world – quickly became a realized ambition. Now, over a year later, the German-born adventurer has finished the quest of pedaling through 22 countries (over 18,000 km or 1,118 miles) and is ready…